Accidental Tech Podcast

72: Take Your Co-Host To Work Day

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  • Pre-Show:
    • Showbot is back, and it has Zarro Boogs.
  • Follow-up:
    • Don Lodsky points us to a sample of Google's new web design for desktop
  • A brief meta-discussion about what we cover, how we cover it, and what being an "expert" is
  • Feedback on potential wearables from Ben Griffel, biomedical engineer, and Per Östergren, MD
  • Aperture and iPhoto's brands were sunset
    • Zoomed Photos UI screenshot
  • Apple tells Ars Technica of "plans for professional-grade features such as image search, editing, effects, and most notably, third-party extensibility."
  • We channel our our inner Prompt and discuss photo management techniques
  • Wonky design choices
    • Jim Ray's tweet that started the conversation
  • OXO Good Grips
  • iFixit teardown of the AirPort Extreme
  • A geometry lession regarding the Back of Marco's trash can
  • Sharp edges got softer on MacBook Pros over time
  • After show:
    • More Showbot talk (spoiler alert)
    • John complains about Safari
  • John complains about the Showbot
  • Casey self-censors
  • XSS by friend of the bot Jeremy Banks
  • Marco circles back and exits the parking ramp regarding Overcast
    • The ghost of Jury
  • Marco's XOXO talk where Overcast was announced... in September 2013
  • Working around UIKit limitations with crazy hacks
  • Whether to wait for iOS 8
  • John's Yosemite review status

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      Accidental Tech PodcastBy Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa