Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

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

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Accidental Tech Podcast episodes:

July 21, 2016179: Free-to-Play Dogs
Follow-up:
Casey's iMac Feedback
Pushover
Pokémon Go
Science Museum of Virginia's Pokémon announcement
Maymont Park's exclusive event
Rent-a-dog
SoftBank to buy ARM
Recode's take
Gorilla Glass
Apple hardware stagnation
Stephen Hackett's laptop reviews
How does Marco's Sidetrack work?
Fast Fourier transform
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: What's appropriate to talk about on ATP?
Erasure
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
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1h 50min
July 14, 2016178: Mama Needs That Pokémon
Follow-up:
Hackintoshes work sometimes
Charles Perry's Mac Mini Story
Contour Design RollerMouse Pro2
Casey's 5K iMac (Late 2015, 4GHz i7) Woes
WindowServer: GPU Driver appears to be hung (over 5 continous seconds of unreadiness)
Later RTFU tweet
Planet of the Apps
Clockwise #145: I've Always Wanted to Have a French Accent
Original New York Times article from March
Indie Game: The Movie
Phil Fish
Prospect Productions' Works
Pokémon Go
Ingress
Niantic
Ramp Champ
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
Tesla Autopilot
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1h 44min
July 07, 2016177: Paying for Someone to Blame
Follow-up: Dave Nanian of SuperDuper fame on HDMI CEC
Ripping Blu-rays for Apple TV:
MakeMKV
Subler
Plex
Infuse
DS Video
Don Melton's video-transcoding scripts
The TV Database
The Movie Database
Follow-up on Marco's HDMI CEC woes
Follow-up: Matt Bischoff on ice cream ingredients
Edy's vs. Dreyer's vs. Breyer's
iCloud Drive vs. Dropbox for file syncing
Scrivener Sync
macOS Sierra and the case of the missing files
Dropbox Infinite
Hackintoshes still exist, apparently
Marco's joke RT
Old World ROM
Isopoint Trackbar (more here)
The poor Mac Mini
Motorola Rokr
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show Neutral: Honda Accord SE
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1h 33min
June 30, 2016176: Yellow Sock Time
Follow-up:
Linus Torvalds on HFS+
See also
IntegrityChecker
chkbit
PAR2 and Parchive
Protecting against bit rot
Mac Toolbox
More on APFS
Space sharing
Time Machine and file/directory clones
FSEvents
Hard links
Atomic clones
TeachText
Snapshots
BackupLoupe
Surprise HDMI CEC follow-up
Logitech Harmony
xkcd on standards
"Screen time" for kids
Transport Tycoon
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Parent involvement with TV for preschoolers
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
Girl Scout Cookies
Talenti Gelato
Ben & Jerry's
Häagen-Dazs
Breyer's
Dreyer's
Blue Bell
Jeni's
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1h 24min
June 27, 2016175: Dance Palace
Marco trying to parallelize the LAME MP3 encoder
macOS Sierra and John's comically old Mac Pro
/System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist
The Talk Show Live
Marco's Pictures
Deleting system apps on iOS 10
Search ads using names of other apps
Apple Photos and controller search
Example success
List of strings for Photos search
Thunderbolt Display has been discontinued
Apple File System
WWDC Video
Btrfs
Andrew File System
Unicode
Joel Spolsky on Unicode
ASCII
UTF-16
UTF-8
Latin small letter "e" with acute
Unicode Normalization Forms
Apple Tech Note 1150
HFS+ Unicode Subtleties
Linus Torvalds on HFS+
Shift JIS
Data integrity
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Email and parenting
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1h 52min
June 14, 2016174: A Ding in the Room
Recorded live from Marco's hotel room at WWDC
Apple WWDC reactions
Keynote video
watchOS Preview
tvOS Preview
The Talk Show #146
macOS Preview
John's tweet about storage optimization
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1h 45min
June 10, 2016173: A Series of Heartbreaking Rejections
Follow-up:
No 5K Monitor at WWDC
iPhone "7" & SE: Third Time's a Charm
macOS in official documentation?
Photo evidence
App Store changes announced this week
Apple's official pages:
Subscription changes
Search ads
Example image
Press interviews with Phil Schiller:
Daring Fireball
The Verge
The Loop
The Telegraph
Under the Radar #31: Today's App Store Announcements
Brent Simmons' request for clarification
People can't see ads
Casey's take on DuckDuckGo
Covariance & contravariance
WWDC Predictions
Upgrade #92: WWDC 2016 Draft
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Marco changes an opinion
World of Goo
Human Resource Machine
Leuchtturm1917 Pen Loop from Myke's Pencil Hacks
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2h 14min
June 02, 2016172: iPhone X
Last call for ATP Shirts! Sale ends on Friday ATP-time!
John's attic
K56Flex vs. X2
Hayes command set
Modem sounds
More on the rumored new MBPs
USB Power Delivery
External Retina Display
Thunderbolt Display
Apple opening Siri
iPhone 7 "tick"?
Apple considered buying Time Warner
Eddy Cue at the Warriors game
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: New Top Gear
Chris Evans
Sabine Schmitz
Simon Pegg
Grand Tour
Extra Gear
Chris Harris
Fifth Gear
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1h 41min
May 26, 2016171: WWDC Is Not Santa Claus
Pre-show: ATP Shirts!
BMW M
Marco's illustration
Follow-up:
App Store review times
The Talk Show #154 - Facebook on Your Face
Force quitting apps on Android & iOS
Rumored new MacBook Pro
MacRumors Buying Guide
Optimus Keyboard
Clockwise #138 – You Know What You're Signing Up For
Windows SideShow
Cortex #29 - Dvorak
Magic Keyboard
IBM Model M
PowerBook G4
Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
Apple Extended Aluminum Keyboard
Apple Extended II
Apple Opening Siri & Developing Echo Rival
Marco's post
Functional High Ground
Phish Meatstick video
Pixel Envy - Meet VocalIQ
Craig Hockenberry on logins
Getting the best from both Apple and Google
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Casey's identity crisis
Google Photos
Connected #92 - My Relationship with the Status Bar
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1h 59min
May 20, 2016170: Casey Beats John, 29–29
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Follow-up:
Foodgate 2016
Yale/Harvard
Bing bans "tech support" ads
Debunking an Apple/podcasting conspiracy theory
App Store approval times
Under the Radar #27
Cabel's tweet
Drinking bird
Google I/O
Keynote
Google Home
Weebles
Google Allo
Ello
Font size interaction demo
Google Duo & Knock Knock
Android N
Vulkan
OpenGL ES
Apple Metal
AMD Mantle
JIT compilation
Multitasking
Instant Apps
OpenDoc
Android Wear 2.0
Graffiti
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Compulsive app quitters
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1h 53min

FAQs about Accidental Tech Podcast:

How many episodes does Accidental Tech Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 459 episodes available.