Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Technology

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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

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361: A Button in the Thumb ...

01.16.2020

AirPods vs. AirPlanes neverssl.com & alwayshttp.com Follow-up: Camera ergonomics (via Henrik Helmers) PopSockets Jumpy mice (via Scott Simpson) USB 3.0 Radio Frequency Interference Impact on 2.4 GHz Wireless Devices Photo sharing Mario Panighetti Andrew Elliott Jared Counts Using a PS4 ...

Accidental Tech Podcast episodes:

01.16.2020 361: A Button in the Thumb Shelf AirPods vs. AirPlanes neverssl.com & alwayshttp.com Follow-up: Camera ergonomics (via Henrik Helmers) PopSockets Jumpy mice (via Scott Simpson) USB 3.0 Radio Frequency Interference Impact on 2.4 GHz Wireless Devices Photo sharing Mario Panighetti Andrew Elliott Jared Counts Using a PS4 ...
01.09.2020 360: Big Hole in the Middle Intro: Casey was not consulted CGP Grey Follow-up: Boot camp on external drives WinToUSB Rufus (via Alexei) Was the boot restriction issue the one from the start? (via Brad) Dual-booting with Bluetooth (via Robert Watkins) 2019 Mac Pro speaker module ...
01.01.2020 359: I Could Live in There John's Computer Situation State of Catalina Audiophiles are bananas Monoprice equivalent Follow-up: MagSafe connectors John's Mac Pro setup experience Storage/RAM effects Cable-free internals Time Machine Boot Camp ideas—none of which work as described 1, 2, 3, 4 Don't forget about ...
12.23.2019 358: Emotional-Support Mac Pro John's Computer Situation Reconcilable Differences #120: Where the Packages Sleep Mac Pro tidbits and follow-up: Mac Pro feet are removable 580X has two HDMI ports on the back 3dfx Voodoo Sound Blaster Blackmagic eGPUs and Pro Display XDR Teardown Thunderbolt ...
12.18.2019 357: A Giant Green Field Pre-show: John continues preparing the way Mice Logitech MX Revolution Follow-up: Thank you, listeners! Casey iMac !Pro offers Casey's Catalina Conundrum Marco's lamp update (thanks, Dan Engler!) First-generation Apple products Casey's iMac Pro tweet Downgrades from the old Mac Pro ...
12.12.2019 356: With a Heavy Heart Follow-up: Casey's Computer Corner Footnote Bendy extended keyboards Destiny on Stadia iPad Remote Control & Apple Classroom The Mac Pro Configurator Mac Pro Components Belkin AUX Power Cable Kit Install and replace parts in your Mac Pro (2019) GPU Upgrade ...
12.05.2019 355: The Way Corn Grows Pre-show: Marco's artificial ☀️ Casey's garage light Dyson sphere Xledia bulbs (thanks, Marina Epelman) Seasonal affective disorder Casey's Computer Corner Conclusion Casey's busted Mojave installer due to an expired certificate? Apple Trade-In Evaluator Marco travels with the 16" MBP Turbo ...
11.26.2019 354: Casey's Computer Corner Pre-show: BBEdit to the rescue Casey's Computer Corner Apple Holiday Return Policy Casey's theoretical monitor NUC Marco's Office Lighting Follow-out IKEA !lamp John's lamp MS Office and Catalina Follow-up: Amazon's customer support "phone tree" Hopscotch GetHuman #askatp Is AppleScript dead? ...
11.21.2019 353: Modern-Day Dialup Neutral: The inevitable death of the stick Casey's Bumper Paperlike 2 (note: order from Kickstarter to get Paperlike 2; their website is currently only selling the first-gen) 16-inch MacBook Pro follow-up: Pricing What did Marco buy? Phil Schiller on a ...
11.13.2019 352: No One Else Had Calipers ATP HOLIDAY SHIRTS available until Sunday, November 17 Follow-up: Mac Pro available "December" Mac Pros appearing in the wild iOS 13.2.2 Casey's Catalina Catastrophe 16-inch MacBook Pro: Initial Impressions Marco's blog post Chiclet Keyboard PCjr Macintosh Portable Sponsored by: Mack ...
11.07.2019 351: The Floor Is High Pre-show:
10.31.2019 350: Wax Buddies Accidental Sports Podcast Robot or Not ATP HOLIDAY SHIRTS available until Sunday, November 17 16" Key Layout Leak? iOS 13.2 issues Samsung's new foldable flip-phone Airpods Pro Press release Mac Pros in stores? FCC approval #askatp Should I wait to ...
10.22.2019 349: Formative Tech Dystopia Pre-show: Star Wars Episode X.10.1 Follow-up: Pi-hole Workflow/Shortcut SwiftUI app Microsoft progress-indicator graph Swift's New Diagnostic Architecture Overview No Overview Available Methodology Folklore.org No October event? Image of 16" MBP in 10.15.1 beta? Animated GIF comparing old to new New ...
10.17.2019 348: Panic Shutdown Pre-show: El Camino Jesse Pinkman's character bio Follow-up: Opting out of TiVo pre-roll ads Oxo Chef's Knife Siri opt-in & grading Optimus Player Casey's Docker adventures Pi-Hole Inspiration Jeff Atwood's article Homebridge Marco's networking adventures Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (previous router) ...
10.10.2019 347: Not Enough Carrot to Take the Stick Pre-show: Casey's computer and
10.03.2019 346: Go Back and Pop Myself Follow-up: Casey's broken iMac Casey's broken Apple Watch Improved battery life Apple software quality iPhone X/XS → 11 Pro Transfer XDR Display Tech in iPads and MacBook Pros? Mac Pros + Avid + Chrome =
09.27.2019 345: Unapologetically Digital Last chance for September donations to St. Jude Analog(ue) #166 (to be released Sunday, 29 September) Podcastathon video Pre-show: The fine art of literature, and staying young. Recursion Follow-up: AppleCare+ refunds/enrollment details Apple repair cost Casey's poor phone Brand new ...
09.18.2019 344: Peace in the Battery Kingdom Donate to St. Jude Running campaign total Follow-up: Bank of America and ShopSafe Gruber's theory on Apple presenter names Midnight Green: Not a China thing SixColors on the U1 and UWB chips More iPhone 11 details iPhone thickness over time ...
09.12.2019 343: The Stand Is Your Hand Please donate to St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital After you donate, check out the march to Relay's $75k goal Apple September Event New York Times Op-Ed Halo at MacWorld 1999 Opening Video Perspective Designed by Apple in California See Trailer ...
09.04.2019 342: The Opposite of Con Casey, DMB, and Sirius XM Follow-up: Drawbacks to Apple using opt-in privacy Apple card activation videos ≤ iPhone X ≥ iPhone XS/XR Credit cards advertising based on the weight of the cards Kerf bespoke Apple Card cases (via The Kavalier) ...
08.29.2019 341: John Is My Default Pre-show: Marco ran out of dog food at the beach He is well-aware that his temporary food is not perfect and has not been reviewed by a vet or dog nutritionist, and will resume using "real" dog food when he ...
08.19.2019 340: You Are a Computer Athlete Follow-up: Store-brand Velveeta WalMart store brand Kroger store brand KeyboardCleanTool PlayStation 5 hardware Xbox One S Xbox One X Xbox One S All-Digital Forager Stardew Valley Sega Saturn Sega Dreamcast Apple Rainbow Apple Logo Returning? Think different #askatp: What are ...
08.15.2019 339: Ketchup Momentum John's cheese-grater update NiCad battery NiCad battery example Hunt's 100% Natural Tomato Ketchup Heinz Ketchups More on Apple Card Opting out of arbitration for Apple Card Apple Card has no web interface Follow-up: JSON streaming Length-prefixed JSON Line-delimited JSON Upgrade ...
08.08.2019 338: Double Chunking Overcast beta and sync changes ETag JSON Protocol buffers SAX parser Chunking Vignette duplicate-image-detection update WWDC 2019 #222 Casey's current algorithm as suggested by Craig Hockenberry XOR A quick aside about SwiftUI DSL Casey on complexity John Sundell's web DSL ...
08.02.2019 337: Sea Conditions Are Calm Pre-show: John's vacation wrap-up Chunnel Auto Train Follow-up: John's Apple sticker on his Civic Shallow water blackout Thunder in Paradise Dropbox alternatives Synology Drive Resilio Growl Port forwarding information The Talk Show #258 with discussion about iCloud Drive wonkiness The ...
07.24.2019 336: Your Face Is Not Your Face Pre-show: Nutrition is hard when you're in high school. Top Four #19: Cereals From a Van WSJ Grape-Nuts article Follow-up: iOS 13 optimized-battery-charging specifics Apple TV remote's influence on product box size Time Machine reliability when hosted on a NAS ...
07.18.2019 335: Withhold the Fun Relay FM 5th Anniversary Show iOS 13 charging optimization Follow-up: APFS volumes for photos instead of sparse disk images Dave Nanian tweets: 1 2 SuperDuper Fun Fact on the root group being named wheel shall/should/may/can iPhone SE & headphones Powerbeats ...
07.11.2019 334: Mechanical Disadvantage Pre-show: Must vs. Shall RFC 2119 FAA: What's the only word that means mandatory? Follow-up: John's cheese grater broke Casey's shaming OXO current model John's model Casey's pitched option 99% Invisible: Built on Sand Deviation from the Ive design philosophy ...
07.04.2019 333: Pesky Human Issues Follow-up: Expansion Slot Utility PCI Express Jony Ive leaves Apple Clockwise #301: My Vulcan Mind Ben Thompson's piece ATP #120: One Magical Wire Wall Street Journal on Ive's Departure Jony Ive's Christmas Tree The Talk Show #256: 'A Bit Too ...
06.27.2019 332: Fuzzy Muppet Felt Pre-show: Marco's new beach toy Follow-up: Ricky Mondello on Sign In with Apple macOS app-removal bets: #287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich (Overcast timestamp link) Marco's spirit walk AirPods {Fit in The case} Airpods Earpods Covers Compatible with airpods 2&1 Anti-Slip Silicone ...
06.20.2019 331: The Technical Burden of Users Follow-up: Mac Pro vent design New Yorker article Apple Reverses Course on MDM & Parental Control Apps Apple tightens up rules for enterprise app certificates iOS 13 Bluetooth permission dialogs Marco's tweets 1 2 3 Benjamin Herrin's findings application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:) UIDevice ...
06.13.2019 330: A Rotation You Can't Complete Pre-show: root's wheel group (more) Marco comes to terms with Swift John's preposterous Safari Extension Follow-up: ASCII art apps Mac: Monodraw Web: ASCII Flow Blending stump is a lasso tool "Sim" game series Transport Tycoon 100 WWDC features that may ...
06.04.2019 329: Mac Pro Day Our live show from WWDC 2019! Sponsored by: Boosted: Vehicle-grade electric skateboards and scooters to solve your transportation woes. Use code ATP at checkout to get $75 off your vehicle. Mack Weldon: Reinventing men’s basics with smart design, premium fabrics, ...
05.30.2019 328: The Pixel Stump Follow-up: Explaining Code using ASCII Art iFixit's New MBP Teardown Apple Watch Independence _'s Watch Usage Chart Apple Watch Designer Anna-Katrina Shedletsky Decrypted: Conversation with Phillip Shoemaker Previously about Shoemaker: Apple's App Store Director Sells His Own Fart Apps macOS ...
05.23.2019 327: Better Late Than Wrong Follow-up: "Interactive version control" comic "Preview for video" Videoloupe (via Matthew Schaffer) LumaFX Perfect Horizon (via Jan Östlund) Telestream Switch+ Vignette (App Store Link) Analog(ue) #157: I Just Want People to Like My Stuff MacStories Cult of Mac 9to5Mac TechCrunch ...
05.16.2019 326: Blow Your Redo Stack Pre-show: Bug-out bags and disaster planning Casey's Go Pack Northeast blackout of 2003 Casey's fantasy generator Follow-up: THANK YOU for buying T-Shirts! John's "Frame Game" Apple's fix for the new ZombieLoad Intel CPU exploit HeartBleed Steve T-S on macOS 10.15 ...
05.09.2019 325: Relive Your Calculator-Watch Dreams The ATP store is back with brand new designs! Only available until May 12! Order now! Our thanks to The Iconfactory for helping us out with the T-Shirt designs this year. Follow-up: MDM parental-control conspiracy theory Jury-duty technology iPod Nano ...
05.03.2019 324: Automatic Kicking Machine The ATP store is back with brand new designs! Only available until May 12! Order now! Our thanks to The Iconfactory for helping us out with the T-Shirt designs this year. Follow-up: Australia Post's website link guidelines (via Robb McAlavey) ...
04.25.2019 323: A Slightly Smaller Thumb The ATP store is back with new designs! Only available through May 12! Order now! Our thanks to The Iconfactory for helping us out with the T-Shirt designs this year. Pre-show: Amazing refrigerator episode of Reconcilable Differences ATP Store Iconfactory ...
04.18.2019 322: Morale-Sucking Maple Syrup Fires Pre-show: Casey and John file Overcast bugs Follow-up: More AirPower follow-up. (Really!) Netflix, AirPlay, and screen rights AirPlay quality loss AirPod fidget spinner Of course Katie Bouman should get the credit How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole ...
04.12.2019 321: Dumbed Down, Locked Down, and Locked Out Pre-show: Casey's #snelltalk submission John's appearance on Upgrade Follow-up: Last week's PowerByProxy-AirPower story is disputed Game of Thrones and modern television Apple News on John's Mac is still broken Apple Cinema Display LED Netflix No Longer Supports AirPlay Clarification from ...
04.04.2019 320: Here Comes the Big But Follow-up: AirPods 2 hinge is different iFixIt Teardown People use GSuite! Dozens of us! Workaround that uses Charles Proxy Probably a Google issue? AirPower cancelled Studio Neat Material Dock Google Stadia Previously on ATP OnLive Playstation Now GeForce Now Google ...
03.28.2019 319: We Should Probably Get to the Apple Event ATP Live at WWDC 2019 Tickets are $29 and go on sale Friday, March 29 Hammer Theatre, Monday June 3, 6:00 PM Follow-up: "Pro" iPad Mini Studio Neat Canopy AMD vs. NVIDIA iMacs with spinning disks Marco and HDMI-CEC Joe ...
03.21.2019 318: Not a Casino I Want to Play In Follow-up: Hierarchy of Needs is satisfied... by a ThinkPad? Searching for things in Settings.app Nvidia and Apple CUDA Apple's wild and crazy week Monday: New iPads! iPad Mini!!! iPad Air Jessie Char's revised lineup Tuesday: New iMacs! Upgrade #237: New ...
03.16.2019 317: We’re Customers Too A special extended WWDC segment Macworld New York 1999 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato Lamborghini Miura McLaren F1 Jaguar XKSS Bugatti Type 57 Atalante Porsche 550 Live ATP "Save the Date": evening of June 3 Apple and Spotify Spotify's website ...
03.06.2019 316: MacBook Hierarchy of Needs Follow-up: Two-hand Springboard rearrangement Ask Tog Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda Finding 32-bit apps Corning is working on flexible glass Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Thunderbolt 3 → USB4 Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass Apple vs. NVIDIA System Integrity Protection ...
02.28.2019 315: 1.0 Was Just Speed Follow-up: 16" laptops Bus-powered Thunderbolt 3 hubs Elgato CalDigit Monoprice StarTech (2 USB ports! But $183.) USB 3.2 standard names Foldable phones from Samsung and Huawei Upgrade #234: The Ideological Folding Wars Hypercritical #86: Naked Robotic Core A giant battery ...
02.21.2019 314: Kernel Panic in the Night Follow-up: Hosting a podcast for free on Anchor or SoundCloud Contacts syncing limits Mojave stability Possible T2 Mac audio glitching bug Rumor explosion from Ming-Chi Kuo and Mark Gurman 16-inch MacBook Pro iBook G4 31.6" 6K3K display with Mini-LED-like backlight ...
02.12.2019 313: The Residue of Seven People Pre-show: Casey is surfing the 'net at lightning speeds Marco's
02.07.2019 312: Fashion Phase Pre-show: Marco's hideous audio code Accelerate vDSP framework Follow-up: Google's enterprise certificate was revoked Facebook's was reinstated Apple apologizes for FaceTime bug and takes a field trip John's "MagSafe" MacBook Air Marco's USB-C light-up cable Marco's iPad screen protector Angela ...

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Accidental Tech Podcast

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Accidental Tech Podcast episodes:

361: A Button in the Thumb Shelf

360: Big Hole in the Middle

359: I Could Live in There

358: Emotional-Support Mac Pro

357: A Giant Green Field

356: With a Heavy Heart

355: The Way Corn Grows

354: Casey's Computer Corner

353: Modern-Day Dialup

352: No One Else Had Calipers

351: The Floor Is High

350: Wax Buddies

349: Formative Tech Dystopia

348: Panic Shutdown

347: Not Enough Carrot to Take the Stick

346: Go Back and Pop Myself

345: Unapologetically Digital

344: Peace in the Battery Kingdom

343: The Stand Is Your Hand

342: The Opposite of Con

341: John Is My Default

340: You Are a Computer Athlete

339: Ketchup Momentum

338: Double Chunking

337: Sea Conditions Are Calm

336: Your Face Is Not Your Face

335: Withhold the Fun

334: Mechanical Disadvantage

333: Pesky Human Issues

332: Fuzzy Muppet Felt

331: The Technical Burden of Users

330: A Rotation You Can't Complete

329: Mac Pro Day

328: The Pixel Stump

327: Better Late Than Wrong

326: Blow Your Redo Stack

325: Relive Your Calculator-Watch Dreams

324: Automatic Kicking Machine

323: A Slightly Smaller Thumb

322: Morale-Sucking Maple Syrup Fires

321: Dumbed Down, Locked Down, and Locked Out

320: Here Comes the Big But

319: We Should Probably Get to the Apple Event

318: Not a Casino I Want to Play In

317: We’re Customers Too

316: MacBook Hierarchy of Needs

315: 1.0 Was Just Speed

314: Kernel Panic in the Night

313: The Residue of Seven People

312: Fashion Phase

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