Follow-up: Audiobus used MIDI SysEx , not loopback networking Inter-App Audio on iOS offers Audio Unit extensibility Could Apple make a universal Lightning-headphone replacement cable? John's Destiny Heads-Up Display HDR Panasonic P55VT60 Pirate Eye Patches Quirks & Quarks Podcast Red lights & astronomy VESA mount iMac serial numbers Apple Earnings More graphs from Kieran Healy iPod graph Trucks vs. Cars El Camino Subaru Baja Subaru Brat All-product-lines performance graph (Posted after ...
Jan 29, 2016•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 154
Pre-Show: Winter weather The Long Dark Memory barrier Pirate eye patches Follow-up: Protocol extensions Testing NSURLSession with Swift Studies on blue light and sleep quality National Center for Biotechnology Information (via @technorav ) Harvard The shade of blue Casey's iMac Where is the iMac Serial Number? Casey's desk DragThing John on the Dock ( redux ) iAd App Network Discontinued Overview from Michael Tsai Under the Radar New Apple music apps Garage Band update Music Memos Serenity Caldw...
Jan 22, 2016•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 153
Casey bought an iMac... and you won't believe what happened next. Plex vs. Infuse Mac Power Users on Plex Casey's blog post Follow-up: Swift and default final Mocks C#'s treatment (via @neilcronin ) Objective-C's equivalent hack Rust vs. Swift vs. Go MagSafe vs. USB-C UpThere Little Snitch's tweet Crashlytics adds a theory UpThere's Confirmation Apple TV Tech Talk iOS 9.3 WiFi Assist Update f.lux Night Shift PNAS study (PDF) iPads in the classroom Connected with Fraser Speirs Post-show: Wheel of...
Jan 14, 2016•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 152
Follow-up: UpThere AWS Little Snitch Upthere's response EC2 iPhone 7 Headphone Jack New USB-C peripherals for the MacBook One Griffin "MagSafe" Hyper USB-C Hub CES E3 Swift Code of Conduct linux-kernel mailing list Randi Harper (FreeBSDGirl)'s post Swift proposal for default final Method swizzling Jordan Rose What does Swift mean for Go and Rust ? Post-show grab bag: RIP WebObjects ? Chevy Bolt Faraday FFZero1 Mechanical "Apple Watch" Space Black Milanese Tag Heuer Connected Flip camera FitBit B...
Jan 08, 2016•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 151
Follow-up: Foliage in Apple stores Casey gets a new Apple TV Plex Harmy's Despecialized Editions Casey gets a new RetinaPad Mini Apple SIM Steven Troughton-Smith making windows on iOS Cintiq What plausible/realistic things are we hoping for in 2016? Marco — Apple TV: get better Nilay Patel's piece at The Verge O'Reilly Polar Bear Book Guy English Casey — App Store: get better John — Mac Pro : get newer ...and a new 5K Cinema Display Marco — Finish the Retina transition Casey — Swift on the serve...
Dec 31, 2015•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 150
Casey's reconciled differences Three truths and a lie Marco experiments with his website Second Crack CentOS Under the Radar Chrome vs. Safari on the desktop Phil Schiller takes over the App Store Ben Thompson's take (Stratechery members only) Apache Mesos Les Moonves CBS/60 Minutes feature on Apple Riccio's quote John Gruber and Phil Schiller on The Talk Show Upthere Bertrand Serlet Cloud to Butt Post-show: Neutral : Marco has ordered a Tesla The great bagel dispute Sponsored by: Linode : Get o...
Dec 24, 2015•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 149
Follow-up: Green shifting ( see also ) Continuous release schedules Jeff Atwood's Infinite Version iPhone 7 battery theories 4-inch iPhone 6S predictions Marco's SOLEMEMO battery case Marco's slim battery brick Negativity about Apple Apple TV App Store challenges Ctrl-Walt-Delete: A Cycle of Despair BMW X6M Swift Open Sourcing The Talk Show #139 Chris Lattner's tongue-in-cheek tweet First non-Lattner commit Lattner's reply Apache 2 License patent grant Package manager Code owners Homebrew Max Ho...
Dec 18, 2015•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 148
Follow-up: The iPhone Lightning Dock exists Benefits of Lightning headphones USB Type C supports analog audio Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader Remote.app for iOS now works with the new Apple TV Swift/Foundation bridging Apple iPhone 6S battery case Porsche Panamera Joanna Stern's Review Anker Ultra Slim Apple "No" video Marco's preferred battery brick "Flower" iMac G4 Chin-less battery case Casey's Lenmar battery case Apple updated all of their OSes State of our Watch usage What the future may...
Dec 11, 2015•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 147
Follow-up: iMacs and IR ports mDNSResponder gets fixed by a phone call to Tim Cook German video Vint Cerf DARPA TCP/IP IETF Stuart Cheshire iPhone 7 rumored to drop the headphone jack Existing Lightning-equipped headphones Slimmed-down headphone jack Lightning Digital AV Adapter Casey's Bluetooth headphones Marco's Bluetooth headphones Swift goes open-source Copland 2010 LLVM Clang Apple on Github Traditional Apple open source Swift commit graph First Swift commit Material #23 with Matías Duarte...
Dec 05, 2015•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 146
Pre-show / Follow-out‡: John Siracusa Paper Doll John riding on Merlin's back John on top of Hypercritical Mountain Marco's version of John... plus a bowtie Top Four on Take-Out Food Roanoke Colony Extracurriculars: Reconcilable Differences Top Four Robot or Not The Incomparable Casey's guest spot Analog(ue) Follow-up: iPad Pro and wide-gamut displays iMac insomnia What 2015 tech are we thankful for? John gets hypercritical about Thanksgiving mDNSResponder ( not discoveryd) Functional High Groun...
Nov 24, 2015•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 145
Follow-up: Apple TV vs. game consoles Mac App Store certificate problems Apple's Apology Sparkle Michael Tsai: No One Minding The Store Space Gremlin Daisy Disk Twitterrific iPad Pro, featuring special guest Tiffany Arment Smart Cover Pencil Back to Work #247 Tiff's Signature Adobe Sketch Procreate Tayasui Sketches DisplayMate on iPad display quality USB3 speeds in the Lightning connector Post-show: Mrs. Siracusa's new iMac 5K Sponsored by: Automatic : Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off w...
Nov 21, 2015•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 144
Follow-up: Menu button snap-back on the Apple TV remote John's children react to the remote Marco and Apple TV gaming Badland Limbo World of Goo Provenance f.lux iPad Pro Steve Streza's latency video Matt Panzarino's no-latency video Microsoft touch latency demo video WWDC session Andy Ihnatko's dream Multitasking UI paradigms OpenDoc Post-show: Neutral Casey's fender damage Sponsored by: MailRoute : Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10% off for the life of your accou...
Nov 13, 2015•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 143
Follow-out*: Marco and _David Smith's new show, Under the Radar Follow-up: Facebook's ineptitude Spotlight indexing for NAS drives Why do Google Play Music and Stitcher re-host podcasts? CPM Apple TV S/PDIF The Talk Show #134 Upgrade #61 Konami Code John's Wii U Setup Woes Gaming Crossy Road Alto's Adventure Zaxxon Steelseries Nimbus Polygon on Apple TV games Oceanhorn Provenance Plex Post show: Follow-up on TV audio and sound bars Casey reads the manual for Marco's car Sponsored by: Cards Again...
Nov 05, 2015•2 hr•Ep. 142
Apple TV and home theater Apple's guide to choosing a capacity Optical splitter from HDMI Marco doesn't know what a "sound bar" is Follow-up: 5400 RPM benchmarks , charts Mac GPUs, heat, and noise 2015 5K iMac overheats? Dynamic range compression in the new AppleTV? Monitor height and VESA-mounting Facebook statement on app battery usage John's Star Wars tickets Apple's earnings call Benedict Evans' chart: iPad vs. laptops Large-storage needs at home: NAS, Drobo, or external hard drives? Upgrade...
Oct 29, 2015•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 141
John tries to buy Star Wars tickets Follow-up: Chipworks on the A9s (PDF) Consumer Reports on battery life Fusion Drives Magic Trackpad to augment rather than replace Is the Magic Trackpad 2 too expensive? Xbox One Elite iMac revisited Then and Now Accessories without Bluetooth Apple's balance of priorities: use vs. looks vs. profit Elevation Stand Leander Kahney's Ive book 20th Anniversary Mac Facebook battery usage Post-show: Perl 6 Sponsored by: Automatic : Your smart driving assistant. Get $...
Oct 22, 2015•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 140
Pre-show: Where is the updated 15" MacBook Pro? Follow-up: TSMC vs. Samsung A9 battery life Overcast 2 File formats are fun Bugs Facebook KVOController FCModel What's next Authenticated feeds? Business model Vesper Marco's XOXO talk Marco sees a medium Post-show: New iMacs Increased gamut 1 & 2 Fusion drive down to 24 GB of flash New keyboard , trackpad , and mouse Key travel comparison Sponsored by: lynda.com : Learn at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials. Free 10-day trial. Sq...
Oct 15, 2015•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 139
Follow-up: Boxee Box and oddly-shaped TV dinguses TiVo Bolt feature upgrades for Roamios Top Gear redux begins (Clarkson's tweet) A tale of two A9 s Extra battery life? ( more at Engadget ) Geekbench results: 1 2 Test App Released after we recorded , Apple's statement The phenomenal ATP artwork by Mindaugas Rudokas Get his app, Disco Timer Full-resolution version Microsoft Surface Book Odd iMac colors More from Stephen Hackett Jack Dorsey is back at Twitter Tweetbot 4 Post-show: P85D vs. 458 Spo...
Oct 08, 2015•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 138
Follow-up: Endowment effect VFX and Wacom tablets Dr. Wave, iPad Pros, and Pixar Ad-blocker penetration Ruggedized phones Apple Music trial ends for day-one adopters Who renewed? What's to like? What's not to like? Getting rid of "loves" iPhone 6s 3D Touch Web 3D Touch support (via @bzamayo ) Taptic Engine Live Photos Siri and the M9 Daniel Jalkut on haptic feedback Daniel Jalkut on Siri's headphone tax Inventory A9 manufactured by TSMC and Samsung El Capitan R.I.P., John's reviews Post-show TiV...
Oct 01, 2015•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 137
Follow-up: Requirements that Find My iPhone and passcodes are disabled for iPhone repairs iPhone 6s Live Photos Gruber's review watchOS/2 and colored activity rings Peace Removal Keeping the Peace WWDC: Content Blockers Parakeet The Loop's list of content blockers Ghostery's announcement Loss aversion Sponsored by: Igloo : An intranet you'll actually like. MailRoute : Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10% off for the life of your account. Squarespace : Start here, go ...
Sep 25, 2015•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 136
Pre-show: Top Four Follow-up: CEC Unicorns _David Smith's 16 GB iPhone Research Damocles iPhone 6/6S battery numbers Naked robotic core Casey's Lenmar battery case Mophie Juice Pack Reserve Anker's very similar battery case Casey's crescent moon and Genius Bar policies Purchases Apple TV Development hardware lottery Apology mouse Plex for Apple TV Clicks vs. taps 24p TV Calibration THX Tune Up app MFI Games Can Apple TV require a controller? Apple documentation Screenshot of prior Apple document...
Sep 18, 2015•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 135
Pre-show: Casey, Plex , his Synology , and transcoding Don Melton's scripts DLNA DS214Play TouchID and "S" iPhones iPhone crescent moon Safari pinned tabs markup W3 mailing list Apple September Event Apple Watch [New watch metals and bands] watchOS 2, custom complications, apps, and Overcast Is the Apple Watch doomed? iPad Pro Paper Paper Pencil Surface Keyboard Cover Wacom Cintiq Apple TV CEC TV Specs HIG Steelseries Nimbus Requiring game controllers Thomas Was Alone The Goodfellas podcast Para...
Sep 10, 2015•3 hr 3 min•Ep. 134
Follow-up: Why not use push notifications for the iPhone 6 Plus iSight replacement program Apple, attitude, "cool", and change Songs of Innocence iPod Hi-Fi Force Touch and Taptic Engine in the iPhone 6S Upgrade #51 New York Times on Amazon's stressful culture Jeff Bezos' rebuttal Ballmer Peak Creativity, Inc. Dustin Moskovitz on 40-hour work weeks Work-life balance and workaholism What's necessary for a successful startup? Post-show: John's well-honed capacity for doing nothing Addiction to cof...
Sep 02, 2015•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 133
Pre-show: Casey's Tom Bihn Cadet review Follow-up: John's 802.11ac device (via @_adamluther ) John's Wi-Fi Routers AirPort Extreme Teardown Noctua fan What computer should Casey buy? Mouse design Apple Mouse Apology Mouse Apple Pro Mouse Logitech MX Revolution Low Men in Yellow Coats Apple Mouse History John's home mouse John's work mouse Magic Mouse, "Fixed" Wirecutter review with grip pictures Overcast upgrades at Linode John's adventures with Safari pinned tab icons Alternate markup Illustrat...
Aug 26, 2015•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 132
Pre-show: Microphones and Electronics Schiit Wyrd Shure SM7B Shure Beta 58A Shure Beta 87A Neodymium magnet Cardioid microphone Follow-up: How Intel Skylake is faster ECC RAM Failures (PDF) Bit error likelihood DRAM errors in the wild (PDF) Encrypted backups and password management strategies Mat Honan's hacking story Jason Snell on Alphabet on Upgrade ( Overcast link ) Overcast playlist modification from the web iPhone rumor time! Pink iPhones? Pink Razr New materials? iPhone 6 crescent-moon fl...
Aug 21, 2015•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 131
Follow-up: IBM's TrackPoint study More on [self-proclaimed] Tap-to-Click Wizards Apple SIM Apple's documentation Lady Whimsy's summary 1 2 3 4 Carrier Performance Feedback from Chris 1 2 Carrier plans Derek's theory Ben's theory Jeffrey's theory Links from Aaron E FCC on early termination fees Mobile carriers stand by cancellation fees More on the FCC Notebook Xeons G is for Google Ad-Blocking Ethics Safari is the new IE Gruber on iMore Rene Ritchie on content blockers Ghostery Disconnect Ad Blo...
Aug 14, 2015•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 130
Skylake desktop CPUs launch Casey joins 2012 " Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal. " TrackPoint TrackPoint Mouse Leap Motion 2015 iPhone predictions Naked robotic core It's Ramifications! Carrier subsidies and pricing games AT&T Next Post-show: Repairing iPads Hot water heaters Marco's new camera Sony A7R II Sony FE 35mm f/2.8 Sony FE 55mm f/1.8 Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 macro Canon 5D Mark II Nikon D750 Casey's camera setup Sponsored by: Cards Against Humanity : A free party game for ho...
Aug 06, 2015•2 hr 18 min•Ep. 129
Pre-show: Invisible formatting Chapter markers and Germany Follow-up: Satya Nadella on Microsoft's iMac Samsung SSDs and TRIM MacNN SSD testing Marco's cellular-option dilemma Reddit Reddit is no longer owned by Condé Nast John slacked off for 46 days What makes Twitter marginally less crummy? Q&A about policies El Capitan's Rootless Mode WWDC Session 706 – Security and Your Apps Audio Hijack Paths in the Grass Mac App Store... still stinks. Coda Craig Hockenberry on the Mac App Store Post-s...
Jul 29, 2015•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 128
Pre-follow-up: Streaming over cellular and UI dilemmas in Overcast 2.0 Follow-up: Original Half Life is available on the Mac (via @Kristian ) On-demand resources API and NSProgress (via @Hunter ) Marco tries to deny he likes playing games Desert Golfing Alto's Adventure Prison Architect Theme Hospital OpenTTD , the rewritten and expanded Transport Tycoon Intel's tick-tock seems to be over Reddit kerfuffle CGP Grey's video: What is Reddit? Hello Internet #43 Rocket #26 and #27 Laurie Voss's two t...
Jul 22, 2015•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 127
Pre-show: John being particular about his particular renovations Follow-up: Web apps versus native apps in the enterprise/government Browser choice on iOS Font safety TRIM versus over-provisioning Half Life is available for the Mac Counterstrike Team Fortress 2 Markov generator New iPod Touch Steve Troughton-Smith notes it's iPod7,1 Matthew Panzarino's speed tests Metal App thinning & slicing iPod Nano Gruber's take iPod Shuffle Post-show: FCModel Optimistic locking SQLite PRAGMAs Sponsored ...
Jul 16, 2015•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 126
Follow-up: Do SSDs understand the data that they write? Honda Fit cameras BMW Top View camera Classical music on Apple Music Origins of "on an infinite timescale", thanks to official show historian _David Smith Discussion from last episode First usage from #83 Concept's introduction Copland 2010 American radio sucks Safari is the new IE Nolan's Follow-Up W3C canvas Code Hard or Go Home CSS4 Selector Test Current results CSS Spinner Test Current results Microsoft eviscerates their phone business ...
Jul 10, 2015•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 125
