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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August 21, 201479: Tip Ring Ring Sleeve
Pre-show: Relay FM and Casey's new show about feelings
Follow-up:
Rumored Lightning cable with reversible USB end, too
Lightning cables breaking at the strain-delay cuff
PVC
Apple's official cable
Amazon's knockoffs
Monoprice's knockoffs
Cables' Springy Bits
TRRS connector
Non-spammy Verizon DNS
Console sales
How do you pronounce "Haxe"?
Twitter continues to try to ruin itself
Being a completionist versus following Glenn Fleishman
Twitterrific with unified timelines and Tweetbot without
Build an Acura in a tweet!
App.net and Tent
iTunes 12
Will iTunes ever get a complete rewrite or have functionality spun off into multiple apps?
Photos in Yosemite
Post-show:
Non-ideal times to decide whether to have another baby or write another OS X review
How old is Stephen Hackett, really?
Could you use an iOS device as a media-sync host for an iPod?
Transferring large files over wireless (including Eye-Fi cards)
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1h 35min
August 15, 201478: Fleece the Whales
Pre-Show:
Casey's New Podcast
Follow-Up:
USB Type-C connector finalized
Peter Bright's comment
xkcd
ARM Macs
Summly
WIMP
_DavidSmith's Version Stats
More on Jared Sinclair and the App Store economy
Jared's new job
Release Notes #65
_DavidSmith's Developing Perspective #192
Early Instapaper screenshots
"App Rot"
Capo
TiVo Premiere UI update
TiVo ditches Flash
Haxe (həvər)
Account-free Overcast
Jalkut theory on App Store review
Post-show:
Casey sells his soul for symmetric internet via Zac Bir
A Cry in the Dark
Casinos
Boiler Room
Leftovers
Casey on Debug
Wii U Games
Mario Kart 8
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Playstation 4 Sales
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Nintendoland
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Kart 64
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1h 34min
August 08, 201477: Full-Stack Businessperson
Casey wants to be the pre-show DJ
Journey Soundtrack
Transport Tycoon
TT Original MIDI Music
TT Remastered MP3 Music
OpenTTD
Follow-up:
Mavericks, Gmail, and Mail.app
Apple and IBM
John's review status
Synergy
Overcast status
Mixing server roles for burst capacity
nice
Weighing feedback
Macs with ARMs (in contrast to bubbles with feet)
Jean-Louis Gassée's article
MVNO
MacBook Air Specs
iPad Air Specs
MacBook Air Geekbench
iPad Air Geekbench
Mac Power Users
Making money in the App Store
Jared Sinclair's blog post
Planet Money on discussing salaries
Fast Text (iTunes Link) sales
Opacity Express
Jakub Świadek
topLayoutGuide
Justin Williams on business
Jazzychad's post on games
Stephen Orth on a different kind of App Store success
Justin Williams - "90 days"
Stuart Hall - "An App Store Experiment"
Post-show:
Rube Goldberg Machine
Casey's terrible fast-food preferences
Fazoli's Ultimate Sampler
Casey's "breadsticks"
Sonic Drive-In
Shake Shack
Five Guys
Cook-Out
Boar's Head Natural Casing Beef Frankfurters
Lothar's Gourmet Sausages
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1h 58min
July 30, 201476: Not Suitable for Any Purpose
Follow-up on Overcast:
Debug
Downloads, accounts, conversions, server load
Pixar and Ed Catmull get involved in wage-fixing
Previously on ATP
The Incomparable
Top Gear Series 3 Episode 4
Sega Saturn
Yosemite Public Beta
IMAP
VPN woes of the past
Radar
SuperDuper
OS/2 Warp
After-show:
Marco rents crazy headphones from The Cable Company
Marco's original post
HE-6 headphones (the crazy way that planar-magnetic drivers work)
The massive EF-6 amp and its crazy audiophile volume knob (top center) — it's a stepped attenuator, since common potentiometers are considered inferior.
XLR plugs and balanced audio
Casey still loves in-ear monitors (probably while listening to vinyl), but many experts in both prefer headphones.
Casey surprises Marco and John by playing Journey
Casey drops hints on Twitter days before and John picks up on it
PlayStation Store Credit on Amazon
Journey Soundtrack on Amazon and iTunes
Monument Valley
John's blog post
Tiff plays Journey
The Incomparable on Journey
Inception
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1h 53min
July 24, 201475: You Had Your Moment
Pre-Show: John visits Six Flags
Follow-up:
Overcast week one update
Server side vs. local feed crawling
XML wonkiness
XPath
XSLT
UI Changes in 1.0.1
What should the rewind and fast-forward buttons do in a podcast app?
Episode 1 of the Debug Epic with Nitin Ganatra
More on priority podcasts
Sapphire iPhone 6
Second Marques Brownlee Video
Mohs Hardness Scale
Gorilla Glass
Apple & IBM Partner in the Enterprise
Post-show:
Keeping devices & sceens pristine
Mac SE/30
Mac Plus
Used cars, kids, dings, and knicks
Bra Phase
John criticizes recent showbot changes
TV Talk
Which Mike Judge creations are funnier than others
Halt and Catch Fire
Silicon Valley
Veep
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1h 28min
July 18, 201474: One Of Us Shipped Something
Follow-up:
Showbot status and pull requests
Older phones still being bought today, like the iPhone 4S
Long-term device limitations and upgradeability, RAM, spinning disks, and Mac/iOS purchasing strategies
Vindictive but self-defeating defections
Screen size, small hands, and pants/trousers/jeans/khakis/whatevertheyrecalled.
Silver Screen Queens Podcast
CGP Grey
4K Plasma TVs, as pointed out by Awax, which lists for $500K
Overcast has shipped!
Planning for server load and timing a release in the App Store
Why require user accounts, and why not iCloud?
Why freemium?
What took so long? Why no streaming? Why does that even matter?
IRL Talk
RSSRadio
ARM SIMD Extensions
AltiVec
Features users will hopefully appreciate
Linking to other independent podcast apps
Some serious dedication on Hacker News
Posted after we recorded: Castro's response
Podcast directory design motivations
Possible web-hosting on an A7-based Apple TV like at Mac Mini Vault
After-show:
John gets Hypercritical about Overcast
Electric Shadow
Back to Work
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2h 14min
July 10, 201473: Notifications Duck
Follow-up:
Why would someone switch from iOS to Android? Is it because of software updates?
Framily
Google I/O Inclusiveness
Penny-farthing bicycle
RAW editing in iPhoto
Alarm fatigue and how it relates to notifications on our phones
More on health monitoring by Ben Griffel
Control Plane
The death of plasma
The challenges of making a 4K plasma TV
Are 4K TVs worth it?
Crutchfield
Netflix Shows 4K
Leaked "iPhone 6" "Sapphire" Display Video
Post-show:
Overcast and Content Security Policy
Github rolled out CSP
Firefox memories
Firefox's launch ad in the New York Times
Browser rendering engine timeline
XUL
Rescue Time
THE SHOWBOT SURVIVED!
Quick Neutral
F80 M3 vs. E92 M3 dyno comparison
F10 M5 Launch Control
Porsche 918
Casey's traction control in the snow
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1h 21min
July 03, 201472: Take Your Co-Host To Work Day
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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1h 52min
June 27, 201471: Security By Guilt
Pre-show:
Million Dollar Homepage (more on Wikipedia)
Alex Tew's Twitter Account and new venture
Casey's Showbot returns.
SPOILER ALERT: The Gist Casey mentioned
Casey breaks Marco's brain with consulting terminology
Is "!s" pronounced "bang-S" or "exclamation-point-S"?
Hat colors
Google I/O
Overview
Material Design
Design Reel video
Android Auto
Moto 360 Watch
Panerai Watches
Lock-in by visual affordances
Gmail API
The API doesn't replace IMAP
Marco's prediction about IMAP support
ART Runtime
Are web APIs still necessary?
Post-show:
"Follow-down" on Swift and openness (Lattner's comment on Mike Ash's Friday Q&A)
More silly business metaphors
Casey's Showbot: web sockets, error handling, and developing for work vs. "play".
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1h 43min
June 20, 201470: The Endgame Is Omnipotence
Follow-up on app bundles as upgrade pricing.
Whether games are more like apps or movies.
Amazon's Fire Phone
Who's it for?
Mayday tech-support feature vs. Apple's retail stores
Apple stores vs. U.S. population density
Amazon and Apple doing what they're respectively, exclusively good at.
Continuity and Handoff in Yosemite and iOS 8
Only Apple (John Gruber)
John's opinion of iMessage.
Casey's further adventures developing a small web app in a hostile environment.
OWASP top 10 web vulnerabilities
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1h 28min

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How many episodes does Accidental Tech Podcast have?

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