May 01, 2025

iOS 750: Coffee & Cocktails - Highball, FourSix, Just Timers, & more

32 minutes

Brew the perfect cup or mix the ideal cocktail with these iOS apps! Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard dive into specialized apps for creating beverages, from precision coffee timing to cocktail recipe management. They explore how these apps can enhance your drink-making experience while sharing Apple's latest privacy-focused AI developments.

AeroPress Timer ($4.99) - A specialized app for AeroPress coffee brewing that includes recipes from competitions and roasters worldwide, with detailed timing for each brewing step and voice shortcut support

FourSix Coffee Timer (Free with IAP) - Designed for pour-over coffee brewing with timing for each stage of the process

Just Timers (Free with IAP) - A flexible interval timer app that lets you create custom named timers with different colors, alerts, and even the ability to open URLs when timers expire, perfect for any brewing process

Highball (Free) - A beautifully designed cocktail recipe app from Studio Neat that allows you to create, customize, and collect drink recipes with visual representations of glass types and garnishes

News

Apple's Privacy-Focused AI Research - Apple published research on their approach to improving AI features like Genmoji while preserving user privacy through differential privacy techniques. Apple detailed how they create and refine synthetic data to train text generation models without accessing real user emails, instead using anonymous device feedback to identify common message patterns

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard

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