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Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusaatp.fm
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Episodes

224: Yearning for Reflection

Follow up: Multiple versions of photos Quietly improving MacBook Pro keyboards Pre- WWDC hopes and dreams Upgrade #143: The WWDC Keynote Draft 2017 What If the iPad Smart Keyboard Had a Trackpad? Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Sponsored by: Jet : A shopping site that makes it easy to save money on the stuff you buy all the time. Use code ATP at checkout for 20% off your first 2 orders over $35 (terms and conditions apply). Casper : An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Us...

Jun 01, 20172 hr 41 minEp. 224

223: Throw the Fork Away

Follow up: Those ✂️️🔑 What do Apple Geniuses do? Official procedure Sketchy keycap removal procedure Regrets from home repair More on box lunches! Denise Young Smith: VP, HR → VP, Inclusion & Diversity Denise Young Smith Lisa Jackson The Talk Show #188: Apple VP Lisa Jackson Thunderbolt to become royalty-free ( Intel press release ) Apple Siri-speaker-with-screen Google I/O Keynote Google Photos improvements Hypercritical #9: No iLife is an Island Kotlin Compared to Swift Ending theme by Jo...

May 25, 20171 hr 43 minEp. 223

222: As Thin as Humans Will Tolerate

Follow up: Revisiting the quiz from last episode MP3 is dead; long live MP3 Fraunhofer's announcement Cookies LAME encoder Audacity 💔 MP3 Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis Opus codec DivX codec DIVX disc format iPad Mini is dead? MacBooks and MacBook Pros are alive? Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Apple Park MIT Stata Center Sponsored by: Fracture : Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Audible : With Audible, you’ll find what you’re looking for. Get a free 30-day trial. Betterment : ...

May 18, 20171 hr 45 minEp. 222

221: Personal Body Chemistry

Follow up: The politics in the last episode Rear Touch ID and prototypes Dirty laptop fabric Alcantara Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Oleophobic coating Are people being backed into liking touchscreen laptops? WikiTribune ...is based on Wordpress and not maintained by Wikimedia ...already has a competitor called Wikinews Amazon Echo Show Previous rumor Marco was enamored with Hunt for Red October You Should Use DuckDuckGo 3Com Audrey Brief Quiz Dropping Dropbox Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: M...

May 11, 20172 hr 11 minEp. 221

220: Executive Box Lunch

Follow up: Moscone food research by Daniel Jalkut More on the potential rear Touch ID Samsung Galaxy S8 Assistive Touch Turning off Haptics: Settings → Sounds & Haptics → System Haptics WikiTribune Basic humanity Jimmy Kimmel's story Casey's tweet recap Associated episode of Analog(ue) Amazon Echo Look Download #1: Wardrobe Philosophy Microsoft Surface Laptop Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Casey really loves his new copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Mario Kart over LAN Sponsored by: Casp...

May 04, 20172 hr 10 minEp. 220

219: Million Dollar Lunch

ATP WWDC Live at AltConf! Monday, 5 June at 5 PM PDT. Get tickets here , and hurry in case they sell out! Follow up: APFS compression? WWDC lunches are probably about $40 each (via David Carlton ) Connected #139 where Casey discusses Plex Touch ID moving to the back? Revisiting the iPhone 7 Taptic home button Touch ID is capacitive Overcast improvements M4A chapter support Forecast Watch support 1 & 2 Apple Design Awards Uber is über-gross IOKit UIDevice Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-sh...

Apr 28, 20172 hr 2 minEp. 219

218: MagSafe Cups of Water

Follow up: APFS iOS app updates hit the app store Marco's Overcast hacks Podlove Simple Chapters APFS free space Nvidia coming back to the Mac Kieran Healy 's thoughts regarding Marco's comments about schedules Clips gets special treatment in the app store T-Shirts! will be available until April 26 . We know what the site says. Trust us. Jet Black considerations Example Jet Black Inverted Jenny Apple USB-C MagSafe patent Xbox breakaway cable Beginning of the end for iTunes? John's evaluation of ...

Apr 19, 20171 hr 40 minEp. 218

217: Apology Mac Pro

Follow up: Mac Pro transcript posted Workflow on ice APFS and free space T-Shirt Update Clips Mac Pro OSNews rumors Lance Ulanoff Gruber iMac Pro Rumor NVIDIA Titan Xp Apple moves away from Imagination Technologies GPUs Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Marco convinces himself Casey owes him $5 Managing Mac Pro expectations Apple speed bumps MacRumors Buyer's Guide Sponsored by: Squarespace : Build it beautiful. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Audible : With Audible, you’ll fin...

Apr 12, 20171 hr 58 minEp. 217

216: Thermal Corner

Follow up: APFS file name encoding WWDC sitrep RIP Jason Seifer The Mac Pro Gruber's take Panzarino's take The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor The new iMac... Pro? Project Ara Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: We adjudicate a bet T-Shirts are for sale! until 26 April Sponsored by: Casper : An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code ATP for $50 toward your mattress. Betterment : Investing made better. Indochino : Finely crafted, exceptionally priced menswear....

Apr 05, 20172 hr 24 minEp. 216

215: Pots Are Made to Be Broken

Follow up: APFS on iOS Settings → General → Storage & iCloud Usage → Manage Storage Oddities with file names Ahoy, Telephone! Naked-er Robotic Core Marco eats waffles Aerial MacBook One vs. MacBook Adorable Hello Internet , Cortex WWDC Under the Radar #73: WWDC Event Planning Layers ( Casey's 2016 Review ) Beyond WWDC Code of Conduct & Childcare Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Tiff joins us to talk Zelda: Breath of the Wild Fable First Look video Mario Kart 8 Splatoon 2 Sponsore...

Mar 30, 20171 hr 44 minEp. 215

214: Christmas Phone

Follow-up: Wii U display lag from Steven Impson Zelda heads-up-display woes Intel X99 high-end desktop options Reasons for delaying the Mac Pro Americans are cheap jerks Marco needs a new pair of shoelaces Analog(ue) #9: My Shoes Are a Bit Dusty Úll Apple executive diversity shareholder vote Apple buys Workflow Workflow on the App Store Workflow removes Chrome Workflow change log (see 1.7.3) x-callback-url New Apple products Red iPhone 7 Six Colors Branding in China New iPhone SE storage sizes N...

Mar 23, 20172 hr 1 minEp. 214

213: Siri in a Can

Pre-show: A friendly bet for January 1, 2018 Follow up: Windows on iPad (for example, Blackboard ) Steve Troughton-Smith's Floating Keyboard Playground Writeup from 9to5mac Apple in Education Apple's HomeKit Promo Website & Video Scott McNulty's Tweet YouTube TV ( Verge Writeup ) Intel goes 14nm again AMD Ryzen Xeon Gold Tim Cook's tease at the shareholders meeting Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Initital thoughts on the Nintendo Switch Sponsored by: Eero : Finally, Wi-Fi, that work...

Mar 16, 20172 hr 14 minEp. 213

212: Meatspace Windows

Follow-up: USB-C iPhone 8 Ming-Chi Kuo pours cold water on Apple USB-C notions Anker bricks Questionable USB-C-to-A adapter Chromebox for Meetings MacBook Boost case Windowing on iOS Steve Troughton-Smith writes Finder-like app for iOS Apple does not see the humor This is why iPad can't have nice things Cabel Sasser of Panic weighs in PanelKit Accidental programmers Cortex Macintosh Toolbox HyperCard Apple's decline in the education market Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Sponsored by: Away : Trave...

Mar 09, 20171 hr 56 minEp. 212

211: Hardware Mind Virus

Pre-show: Xeon Gold Follow up: Booting APFS Tesla harassment suit Uber, generic trademarks , Lyft, and alternatives Uber is Quietly Terrible for Women & Black People New Business Model, Same Racist Cab Drivers Uber CEO argues with driver Overcast Ads iPhones with USB-C? Lightning connector Studio Neat Material Dock Nintendo Switch cartridges have bitter taste Mavala Stop nail polish Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Decoding Tim Cook's shareholder-meeting remarks MKBHD: Dear Apple! (2...

Mar 02, 20171 hr 58 minEp. 211

210: My Stupid Thumb

Pre-show: Noses, Sinuses, and Snot Do By Friday Follow up: Control Center and AirPods Stagehand Backwards Bike Online chat latency Booting macOS from case-insensitive APFS Recipe parts 1 & 2 Overcast 3 Under the Radar #68: Overcast 3 The Talk Show #182: AAA Podcast iOS Human Interface Guidelines WordStar Ad Sales Uber is a total cesspool Men don't care Uber departures SJW WWDC 2017 in San Jose announced Apple Park Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Gaming on the Apple TV Provenance Ste...

Feb 24, 20172 hr 10 minEp. 210

209: Making Sausage-Making Glamorous

AirPods, a couple of months in Follow up: Compelling users to upgrade their iPhones Biometrics ✌️ ✋ Chromebooks vs. ARM Macs OXO's story Case sensitive HFS+ Twitterrific for the Mac Origin of "tweet" Planet of the Apps MacMan Shark Tank Cabel Sasser's take Caavo Verge video John on the omnivorous box Hypercritical #1: Dream Crusher Original GoogleTV remote Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: John's Mac Casey doesn't want a WRX You can get a good deal on a Golf R Sponsored by: Pingdom : Upti...

Feb 16, 20172 hr 7 minEp. 209

208: Your Face Is Your Face

Follow up: What could ARM coprocessors in Macs do? Windows Hello face recognition More on iPads vs. Macs Upgrade #127 Connected #128 Marco's blog post David Sparks on iPad hardware longevity Crazy locked-down ARM-Mac rumor Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Casey learns the fine art of waffling Sponsored by: Setapp : The best collection of Mac software at your fingertips for one low monthly price. Squarespace : Build it beautiful. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Betterment : Inv...

Feb 09, 20172 hr 2 minEp. 208

207: Selling Hot Dogs on a Stick

iPhone 7 long-term review, waffling about sizes Marco's review of spam-call blockers Nomorobo , the one you should get Follow up: Casey is un-American Upgrading your iOS device from HFS+ to APFS Will APFS be open-source? Apple earnings results What's up with iPad sales? The Future of Computing PC use dies on the weekends (via @asymco ) Upgrade #126: Spinny Propellery Guy Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: ARM chip doing more in future MacBooks Sponsored by: Away : Travel smarter with the s...

Feb 02, 20171 hr 56 minEp. 207

206: All You Need Is Five Nerds

Pre-show: Casey needs his morning coffee Follow up: Consumer Reports does an about-face Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard Apple Magic Keyboard WebKit's new Garbage Collector: Riptide APFS is in iOS 10.3 Developers will be able to respond to App Store reviews Under the Radar #64 Craig Hockenberry asks for this in 2009 Apps can change their own icons Steve Troughton-Smith's digging App change dialog Sample project Floating iPad keyboard ...that isn't public ....

Jan 26, 20172 hr 6 minEp. 206

205: People Don’t Use the Weird Parts

Transcript of this episode Follow up: MacRumors talks with Lattner LLVM LLVM Bytecode vs. LLVM Bitcode Bitcode Slicing Clang OpenGL Swift ARC Swift Open Source Casey's love letter to Swift enums Swift Evolution "Commonly Rejected Changes" list asm.js , WebAssembly & TypeScript RxSwift Casey's primer series Garbage collection vs. ARC libauto Singularity Finalizer Go's garbage collection Java Native Interface Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show Neutral Sponsored by: Audible : With Audible,...

Jan 18, 20172 hr 18 minEp. 205

204: You’re Only Stable When You’re Dead

Follow up: Marco and AirDrop Mac Progress Quandary 1 2 3 Tripmode.Helvetica Consumer Reports test results Chris Lattner leaves Apple for Tesla LLVM , GCC , Clang Apple → Tesla defections Chris' woodworking (and making of ) Benevolent dictator for life Self-driving car challenges and techniques Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Blog CMS languages Regular expression Denial of Service Sponsored by: Betterment : Investing made better. HelloFresh : Delicious ingredients you'll love to eat. Sim...

Jan 13, 20171 hr 57 minEp. 204

203: Screaming At Us From The Future

Naked robotic MacBook Pro core MacRumors post ( Hands-on video from after we recorded that answers some of our questions) VGA passthrough coupler Powerbook G5 Faux Mockup On pros leaving the Mac Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings on CarPlay Mac users are grumpy Apple's 2016 Year in Review Chris Adamson buys a Mac Pro he didn't want Finding an Alternative to macOS John's tweet John's Google Home Dan Moren's early impressions Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Marco goes for a drive Sponsored ...

Jan 05, 20171 hr 50 minEp. 203

202: Something Has Gone Wrong

Pre-show: Back Channel Follow up: Ryan Jones on the AirPods charging port Gurman on Mac Malaise Q&A Siracusa toaster reviews Dovenote Weather Line Casey's photo management workflow Casey's standing desk and mat Casey's laptop bag Sponsored by: CocoaConf : A technical conference for Apple developers and designers. Get 15% off tickets for Yosemite (March 20–23) and Chicago (April 21–22) with code ATP . Casper : An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code ATP for $50...

Dec 29, 20162 hr 34 minEp. 202

201: Volume Micromanager

Windows and Tabs of Siracusa County ( Overcast ) 10.1 tabs 10.2 tabs 1 2 3 4 10.3 tabs 10.3 nested tabs Follow up: Android Battery burn-down chart Our reviews of Super Mario Run launches Updated numbers Angry reviewers Apple extends accessory discount LG UltraFine 5K Display Our reviews of AirPods Replacement singles iFixit Teardown Tim Cook's comment on Mac desktops Marco makes the case for a Mac Pro Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Marco discovers gasoline A new member of the Siracusa ...

Dec 22, 20162 hr 9 minEp. 201

200: I Had a Dream About the Mac Pro

Our 200th-episode spectacular! 🎉 Pre-show: PC 99 standard Holiday clip show: ATP 174: A Ding in the Room ( Overcast ) ATP 96: The Windows of Siracusa County ( Overcast ) Follow up: LG 4K HDR monitor Machining crankshafts Amazon Go AirPods are now for sale Casey's Aftershokz Trekz Titanium bone-conducting headphones Marco's discontinued Sennheiser PX 210 BT , succeeded by the MM 400-X Marco tried a Surface Studio Super Mario Run is online-only Connected #121: Software Update Therapy macOS 10.12....

Dec 15, 20162 hr 5 minEp. 200

199: 10,000 Hours of Coughing

Coughing and machining Video: Machining a crankshaft (thanks, Greg Koenig of Luma Labs ) Fisherman's Friend cough drops Follow-up: The future of the Nintendo 3DS John's Keychain woes John's headphone woes Amazon Go Humans Need Not Apply Clockwise #166: Walk-In Vending Machine Windows on ARM Upgrade #118: Missed That by 100% (Relevant section Overcast link ) Apple's Machine Learning Summary by Oliver Cameron Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Not complaining about the Apple TV Aerial Sponso...

Dec 08, 20161 hr 51 minEp. 199

198: Puppy Game Boy

Casey learns Scala and Akka Shouty Visual Studio Programming language genealogy Follow up: John's EarPods The Grand Tour downloads Episode 2 mini-review Netflix allowing downloads New MacBook Pro power bricks Apple USB-C Charge Cable Anker USB-C Charge Cable 87W USB-C Power Adapter Apple Power Adapter Extension Cable People love Apple's Wi-Fi routers Nintendo Switch First Look video End of Desert Golfing Playstation 4 Pro Project Scorpio Uncharted 4 Sonic Spinball Ending theme by Jonathan Mann P...

Dec 01, 20161 hr 58 minEp. 198

197: Life by a Thousand Hugs

John's Energy Star sticker "Trust, but verify" Hypercritical: Trust, but Verify Casey and John visit an Apple Store Stephen Hackett's keyboard sound comparison video Marco buys a thing gfxCardStatus iStat Menus Griffin BreakSafe Power Cable Designed by Apple in California with Actual Products John's new phone Jack size comparisons Comparing color gamuts (via @auniverseaway ) Jony Ive on used iPhones Penny Arcade and the Surface Studio Microsoft to enable x86 emulation on ARM64 Jason Snell on ARM...

Nov 25, 20162 hr 10 minEp. 197

196: Roasting Your Own Beans

John's 4K display And also this Casey's work monitor HDCP Marc Edwards on monitor DPI ranges by size Invisibly wide colors Sample images Hockenberry's post Follow-up on Windows: Jordan's tweets 1 2 3 4 5 Marco and laptops Apple's new art book, Designed by Apple in California Press release Release video Jony Ive interview at Wallpaper Iconic book Appledesign book Humanity and whimsy Microsoft Surface Studio Intro video Wacom Cintiq Reebok Pump Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Sal Soghoian...

Nov 17, 20161 hr 53 minEp. 196

195: The Show Must Go On

Follow up: Iris Pro and Skylake Touch Bar and touch sensitivity TouchBar app with iPad viewer Control Strip Marco's Mac Pro post Empathy for the Machine External monitors in Cupertino Dell 5K display DisplayPort and Thunderbolt capabilities MacBook Pro as the Naked Robotic Core Apple discounts USB-C peripherals and dongles LG UltraFine 5K Display Thunderbolt 3 and Macs ARM on Macs? MacBook Escape vs. iPhone 7 benchmarks ATP #35: Sea-Level Executives Mac clones? Apple's Lenovo John's halo car End...

Nov 10, 20161 hr 45 minEp. 195
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