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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March 21, 2015109: Bigger in the Pocket
Follow-up:
Tipster's compatriot
Nintendo World Championships
Stadium Events - The rare Nintendo cartridge that starts with an "s."
McLaren F1 resale
Bluetooth headphones
Casey's headphones
Marco's Bluetooth headphones (discontinued)
AptX codec
VoiceOver (via @lioncourt)
Watch Edition pricing
Gold video
MacBook
Faster flash
John knows about the existing spacebars
Mockup by @damnweather
Ports
MKBHD prediction
Jony Ive on design
Naysayer notions
Thin PCs
Asus Zenbook UX305
Official specs
Lenovo ad
Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro
Tiny PC
Alto's Adventure
Trip-Ability
Dr. Drang
But what about iOS devices?
Serenity's reply
Jason Snell on solving for battery
Chromebook Pixel 2 charging
Display mirroring
Post-show:
Did you hear that larger iPhones were released last fall?
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1h 45min
March 12, 2015108: Zero is Better Than One
Pre-Show: Last Exile
Follow-Up:
More on Crossy Road
Previously on ATP 94, 95, 96
Previous interview with Crossy Road creators
Anonymous tips from last episode
Casey's tweet recap
USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
USB-C VGA Mulitport Adapter
Monday's Apple Event
New MacBook
Performance is on par with a 2012 MacBook Air
Handbrake
Broadwell
Robert Thomas' tweet
USB-C to USB Adapter
Jason Snell on the keyboard
Keyboard comparison GIF
Internals
13-inch nearly-borderless Dell laptop
Will Apple kill the headphone jack?
Expandable iPads
Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader
Lightning Digital AV Adapter
Lightning to VGA Adapter
Duet Display
John's post about thin and light Apple hardware
Apple "hockey puck" mouse
Post-show:
Impacts of new MacBook technology on other Mac laptops
Butterfly keyboard
Apple Watch
Gruber's original predictions and his last-second updates
Marco's theory about the Edition
BGR on pricing from perspective of a watch person
Casey's daily watch
Casey's special-occasion watch
Panerai
Red/Gold Edition
John's Watch preference
Casey's aspirational Watch preference
Marco's original Watch preference
Marco's new Watch preference
Paper Apple Watches
Casey's more-likely-to-buy Watch preference... except he isn't buying one. Really. Maybe.
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2h 19min
March 05, 2015107: We Get the Most Boring Tips
Pre-show: How Marco and John approach owning nice things
Analog(ue)
Ferrari 488 GTB
488 Seat controls
Follow-up:
Tesla margins (as brought up by William Fairaday)
Being enthusiastic about your "team"
Tesla vs. Top Gear
Tesla vs. The New York Times
Heathrow's self-driving pods (via Michael Luís Brown)
West Virginia University's PRT – more on Wikipedia
One ship pollutes as much as 50M cars (also via Michael Luís Brown)
TED Talk – start at 8:00 (via Nick Thain)
The Guardian on ships' pollution
Tesla's supply chain (via Sam Abuelsamid)
CAN bus
America's Right to Repair Act
BMW ENET cable
Sample OBD2 to Wi-Fi bridge
Expensive BMW app Casey mentioned (iTunes link)
Tim Cook on Apple Watch replacing car keys
BMW Remote app (iTunes link)
Apple's "Spring Forward" Event
12" Retina MacBook Air
Jason Snell on receiving tips
Apple Watch technology page, including Force Touch
Post-show:
Apple Watch Pricing
ATP #82
ATP #83
ATP #84
Veblen Goods
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1h 33min
February 27, 2015106: That’s Slightly Right
Follow-up:
Tesla and "customer sat"
Tweet from Elon Musk
Apple's Minivan
Apple Columbus
iPhone prototypes
BMW X7 testing
BMW i3
Apple/Tesla poaching
9to5Mac staff details
9to5Mac on hiring of Mercedes Benz head of R&D
What is Apple building?
Jason Snell at Six Colors
Fortune
Sugar water explained
Triumph of the Nerds
John Sculley recounts getting hired
Steve Jobs on Microsoft
Auto parts suppliers
ZF
Bosch
Harman
Retina MacBook Pro image-retention test
Tesla Roadster & Lotus
Magna Steyr (Wikipedia)
Mazda MX-6 & Ford Probe
Scion FR-S & Subaru BRZ
Mitsubishi 3000GT & Dodge Stealth
Knight Rider 2000
Knight 4000
Super Pursuit Mode KITT
Greeble
Maybe it's not a car after all? Or perhaps they're self-driving?
Tesla Superchargers
Whole-plane parachute
People love their cars
Roderick on the Line
China and manufacturing capacity
Pebble Time
Connected
Post-show:
Marco did his homework
Tesla Model S
Tesla Model S P85D Review
Interior picture
Insane mode launches video
Rock 'n' Rollercoaster
Range calculator
Charge time calculator
Superchargers map
PlugShare
BMW Performance Driving School
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1h 51min
February 20, 2015105: Do You Want to Sell Sugar Phones for the Rest of Your Life?
Follow-up:
Where does Apple use iCloud Core Data Sync?
Trailers App?
Keyboard Shortcuts?
React in the objc.io interview with Andy Matuschak
Apple making a car?
Neutral
CarPlay
9to5 Mac on hiring Mercedes-Benz R&D
Wall Street Journal
Tesla
GM EV1
Nissan Leaf
Mr. Fusion
Flux Capacitor
Neutral on car UIs
BMW iDrive
Saab
Saturn
Mitsubishi
Volkswagen Service Bus
Volkswagen R32
MyFord Touch
Ford Sync
Post-show:
What shape would an Apple car take?
Tesla Model X
Ford Crown Victoria
Smart car
Jony Ive Profile
Leander Kahney's book about Jony Ive
Arguments about what cars are pretty
Toyota Supra
Lexus SC
Lexus GS
BMW M3 (F80)
Acura MDX
Acura RL
2016 Nissan Maxima
Sappy (and thoroughly confused) Nissan Super Bowl commercial
C7 Corvette
2014 Accord
2015 Camry
BMW M5 (E39)
Casey's car
Toyota Avalon
Mazda 6
Picture
BMW i8 video
Tesla Roadster
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Prior toaster episode
This week's toaster

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1h 47min
February 12, 2015104: Minutiæ
Follow-up
Email to the show's feedback form
What's a toaster oven?
The canonical "Breville"
J'SON
Photos.app does exist!
Jason Snell's Preview
Jason Snell's Q&A, including info on hard links
The Verge's FAQ
Learning to Love Photo Management
Casey's script
Dr. Drang's script
Aperture
Lightroom
Bridge
UXKit
Also in Xcode?
Guy English
New UI Frameworks & Paradigms
Async Display Kit
SMP
React Native
Josh Abernathy's Reaction
Deep dive video
Reveal, the Sherlocked exploded-views app
John's joke retweet
Flipboard's crazy canvas
Copland 2010
Andy Matuschak's thoughts
Ember
Angular
Post show:
Marco GOes on another adventure
Hivelocity
GitHub Camo SSL proxy
Go vs. Nginx benchmark
Titles
LAME
MP3Rage
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1h 43min
February 06, 2015103: An Atheist or a Howard Stern Fan
Using Safari's Inspector into the iOS Simulator
Follow-up:
Handwriting recognition
@dansherson
Will Hains' Video
Jumanji
Inkwell
John's OS X 10.2 Review
Marco hates everyone and their email
FCC and Net Neutrality
Title II
Tom Wheeler
Apple sensor cars
Running Overcast
Linode
Rackspace
Digital Ocean
Kryptos
Vips
ImageMagick
libgd
Family Sharing woes
Family Sharing in John's Yosemite review
Post-show:
More Destiny woes
John's Destiny TV
UI issues
John teases Marco
John's retweet
Toaster judging criteria
Neutral:
Casey drove an M4
Casey not driving an M5 well
The referenced Car and Driver article is on page 24 of the March 2015 issue
Elon Musk's tweet
P85D launch reactions (NSFW)
Cayman GT4
Rear spoiler
New versus old
Maintaining old supercars
Car and Driver Ferrari 355 ownership article appears on page 112 of the March 2015 issue
Ferrari 488
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This week's toaster and John's usual toaster
Hypercritical on toasters and acquiring John's
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2h 17min
January 30, 2015102: Marco Is Not a Platform
Follow-up:
Handwriting recognition with non-Roman languages (via @dansherson)
Marco's possibly-hypocritical (but not hypercritical) thoughts on Apple developer relations
The Talk Show #107: Now It's All Floppy
Overcast earnings
Hello Internet #6: Delete, Flag, Delete, Reply
Analog(ue) #16: I Don't Trust Systems
Back to Work
How do you learn a new language?
Casey's blog post
Tour of Go
Stack Overflow
NSHipster
Apple's earnings
Brewster's Millions
Debug #60: Shipping Software
The Talk Show #108: 'Malapros'
Andy Matuschak interview
What's going on with Photos.app?
Fake sponsor break for two awesome conferences on the British Isles:
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Úll
CGP Grey explains the United Kingdom
How to pronounce UK place names
Familiarity and Progress (via Gary Bernhardt)
Bad Assumptions
Horace Dediu (Asymco) quote
Macalope
Sega VR
Post-show:
Microsoft today
HoloLens
Kinect
Maya
Rocket
Oculus
John's sad TV news
John's TV
Destiny
HUD
HUD Issues
Full House
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1h 37min
January 23, 2015101: Big Plastic Finger
Follow-up:
12" MacBook Air
Efficient use of PCI Express lanes may be the reason for only one USB 3.1 port.
RIP Thunderbolt?
Sessile
Thunderbolt Display
Duo Dock
Belkin Thunderbolt Dock
How do you power it?
WiTricity
Demo video
Artemis/pCell
ATP #61
ATP #62
Back to the Future 2
Reliability Probability
Dr. Drang
Kieran Healy
Network Effect
iPad Pro with an optional stylus?
Paper Pencil
Cosmonaut
CES
Wirecutter highlights
UHD Alliance
CES: Worse Products Through Software
Audio Hijack 3
Screenshot
Workflow
Post-show:
How much is Marco saving by using Go?
WatchKit's limitations and what to expect from the first year of Apple Watch apps
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1h 40min
January 16, 2015100: MacBook Shuffle
Pre-show:
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1h 44min

FAQs about Accidental Tech Podcast:

How many episodes does Accidental Tech Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 459 episodes available.