Accidental Tech Podcast

369: Brown Big Bear

03.13.2020 - By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John SiracusaPlay

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Pre-show: Marco's Problem

Marco's image-retention test

Apple Cinema Display HD

Follow-up:

The "coronavirus" virus itself is named SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 is the disease it causes (formerly called "2019 novel coronavirus" or "2019-nCoV" in some places).

Recommended info sources on COVID-19:

Flatten the Curve

CDC: COVID-19 (continuously updated)

Video: Exponential Growth and Epidemics

WWDC still not canceled

Santa Clara County bans gatherings of 1000+

John's internal storage situation

Mac shortcuts

Ellipsis is ⌥ ;

Adjective order

⌘ ⌥ ⌃ ⇧

⌃ ⌥?

Command key

Xcode symbol popup: ⌃ 6

Drag and drop open/save dialog

DefaultFolder X

Screen shotting/screen capture

Hot Corners and modifier keys

System Preferences → Desktop & Screen Saver → Hot Corners...

Casey's Computer Corner

Brian Ski's tweet

Huge rumor dumps

New homescreen

Accessibility features, wallpapers, and #shotoniphone

GIFWrapped

OCR capabilities

Video: Transcriber in Windows Mobile

Graffiti

Inkwell

Black Ink

Apple Watch flag faces

General Apple Watch improvements

Tachymeter

#askatp

Is the 2015 15" MBP still the best laptop ever made (via James Scariati)

Do we have hard-drive icons on our desktop? (via Rob Fiorendino)

How does one get hardware to make iOS apps on the cheap? (via Marcos Petri)

Post-show: Marco's new adventures... deep underground

Penny Arcade

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