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Ruminate
By Robb Knight and John VoorheesTechnology
Ruminate episodes
- 16 - You Can't Buy Those in the Gift Shop
This week John and Robb discuss Wikipedia apps, Mondo and other banking startups, what's coming in the Apple event, working in restaurants, and the National Poo Museum.
The vision for GOV.UK is to make government work for users | Inside GOV.UK
Wikipedia’s New Focus on Discovery – MacStories
Wikiwand
Curiosity
Robb Lewis on Twitter: "OMG https://t.co/NIQEJVQ6Z4"
Mondo – It's time for a new kind of bank
Transaction data from Mondo
Atom Bank
Simple
NATIONAL POO MUSEUM TO OPEN AT SANDOWN ZOO - Island Echo - 24hr news, 7 days a week across the Isle of Wight
Apple Event - Keynote March 2016 - Apple
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42 min - 15 - I Can Search for Cats
This week John and Robb discuss who's got the best government website, migrating between Dropbox and Google Drive, saying no to features, videos games, and Lego's 2015 results.
The Official Website for Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White - www.cyberdriveillinois.com
Welcome to GOV.UK
Canvas #5: Typing - Relay FM
Backup, Copy, and Migrate Files Between Cloud Storage Services • Mover
forgottentowel on Twitter: "@rmlewisuk A while ago I used mover.io to migrate files from Box to Dropbox cloud-side. Worked flawlessly."
7 - You Can't Really Say Home Video Now | Ruminate Podcast
Dropbox Paper
Shared album - Robb Lewis - Google Photos
One Tap Less | Replace Ranges in Drafts
Drafts 4.6 Has Nice Refinements and a Few Treats for Power Users – MacStories
Nintendo makes SNES games exclusive to 'New' Nintendo 3DS
jasarien/Provenance: An iOS/tvOS Frontend for multiple emulators, currently supporting Sega Genesis, Game Gear/Master System, Sega CD, SNES, NES, GB/GBC and GBA.
A Super Famicom-themed Nintendo 3DS is headed to Japan
Marvel’s Avengers - LEGO.com
Campo Santo - Firewatch
Unravel - Official Site
Annual result 2015 - About Us LEGO.com
41062-1: Elsa's Sparkling Ice Castle | Brickset: LEGO set guide and database
75105-1: Millennium Falcon | Brickset: LEGO set guide and database
60047-1: Police Station | Brickset: LEGO set guide and database
John's Lego Buildings
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54 min - 14 - Plastic Bag License
This week, John and Robb discuss Amazon Prime-only products, showing the price of your product on your website, more plastic bag things, a Nicholas Cage-themed dating site plus Deadpool.
Robb Lewis on Twitter: "Amazon are starting to limit some items to Prime members only 🤔 https://t.co/YYXUwyYBYZ"
Screenbot Brings Droplr File Sharing to Slack – MacStories
Bagged For Life - YouTube
MorpheusHoneyBadger comments on A mandatory charge was recently introduced in the UK
Cage Match: The World's First Nicolas Cage Dating Website by Adam Burt — Kickstarter
Adam Burt on Twitter: "WHO SENT ME THIS LIFE SIZED NICOLAS CAGE!? Whoever it was: Thank you. https://t.co/JEIXHKHAwM"
Knife-wielding monkey terrorizes Brazilian bar after guzzling some rum - Chicago Tribune
Curved croissants banned by Tesco and they're being replaced with straight ones | Metro News
Christian Hernandez on Twitter: "For every time someone compares London to SF https://t.co/zQwSDxnXv4 https://t.co/TFxdg3SPeQ"
Deadpool (2016) - IMDb
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37 min - 13 - Crumpets on Your Tea Towel
After missing a week, John and Robb are back to discuss Chapters for Mac, a bug that's now a feature, release notes, and subscription pricing.
Podcast Chapters — The best way to add MP3 chapter markers to your podcast.
Chapters Makes Quick Work of Adding Chapter Markers to Podcasts – MacStories
Thomas Pritchard on Twitter: "To everyone with Chapters, I’ve just cracked getting it to convert to ID3 v2.3. Expect Chapters 1.1 in the next week or two!"
Thomas Pritchard on Twitter: "Playing with ideas for integrating more ID3 info into Chapters. Thoughts? (cc @layoutfm) https://t.co/wsQFHwgaNB"
PAINT DRYING | British Board of Film Classification
ʙᴇɴ ɢᴏᴜʟᴅɪɴɢ-ʜᴜᴄᴋʟᴇ on Twitter: "@rmlewisuk @johnvoorhees my old house was in the news today. I think you’ll enjoy what the current occupant did https://t.co/4vXGWkcpQR"
Angry homeowner gets revenge on commuter who parked in her driveway - Telegraph
Robb Lewis on Twitter: "I get a free “welcome tea towel” because I ordered from Ocado. It won’t match my other tea towels and that makes me deeply uncomfortable."
The Way You Buy and Use Apps Is About to Change Big Time | WIRED
Feed Wrangler on the App Store
On Your Cute Release Notes — The Brooks Review
Cute release notes | Manton Reece
Under the Radar by Relay FM on iTunes
Keep a Changelog
How Carrot Weather and Tweetbot taught me that paying for apps is a good thing
John Voorhees on Twitter: "@drbarnard I don’t know whether to be happy at the realization that developers who charge for apps care or despair that this is newsworthy."
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46 min - 12 - That's Called Growth Hacking
John and Robb discuss the Apple TV 3 months in, Exploding Kittens, email and TV they've been watching.
How Zano Raised Millions on Kickstarter and Left Most Backers with Nothing — Kickstarter — Medium
VideoLAN - Official Download of VLC media player for Apple TV
Plex for Apple TV
Exploding Kittens by Elan Lee — Kickstarter
Exploding Kittens - A card game for people who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats
Gitify - GitHub Notifications on your menu bar
MailButler Adds New Tools to Apple Mail – MacStories
2Do on the App Store
Spark - Like your email again on the App Store
Microsoft Outlook - email and calendar on the App Store
The Man in the High Castle (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arrow (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Flash (2014 TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Supergirl (U.S. TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Suicide Squad - Official Trailer 1 [HD] - YouTube
Suicide Squad - Comic-Con First Look [HD] - YouTube
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58 min - 11 - Artisanal Hand-Crafted Wash Cycles
This week John and Robb talk some more about bluetooth headphones, screenshot apps and the state of the app stores, CES, plus the Puddle and Peach.
- Joe Rosensteel on Twitter: "@ruminatepodcast Why does Robb hate Star Wars? #askruminate"
- Boom on Twitter: "@rmlewisuk @johnvoorhees https://t.co/Zl4tJ547Zo"
- More Chinese supply chain reports claim Apple has dropped the 3.5 mm headphone jack for iPhone 7, will rely on wireless | 9to5Mac
- Jaybird | Secure-Fit Sport Bluetooth Headphones and Award Winning Reign Active Recovery Band
- Bragi
- A Screenshot Is Worth a Thousand Words – MacStories
- Comic Life
- Your New Xbox One Experience Begins Today - Xbox Wire
- Joe Rosensteel on Twitter: "@johnvoorhees @mattalexand Ready. https://t.co/BHqK6qIUQV"
- Gadget Magazine on Twitter: "It looks like it belongs on a spaceship, and you can download popular wash cycles from your phone onto the machine! #LGCES #LG #CES #CES2016"
- Drummond Puddle Watch: Thousands watch livestream of puddle in Newcastle - BBC Newsbeat
- Make the Censors Watch 'Paint Drying' by Charlie Lyne — Kickstarter
- Peach
- Ello | Be inspired.
- Episode 11: There's Booping — Unhelpful Suggestions
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56 min - 10 - Super Fave Holiday Spectacular
John and Robb discuss their favourite things of the year.
Follow Up
- Hippo Couch
Purchases
- Robb
- Apple TV
- Eyefi SD Card
- John
- MacBook Pro
- iPhone 6s
Movies
- Robb
- The Kingsman
- Kung Fury
- Need for Speed
- John
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Ex Machina
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
TV Shows
- John
- Walking Dead
- Jessica Jones
- Robb
- Mr Robot
- Agents of SHIELD
Games
- John
- Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
- Walking Dead: Season Two Telltale Games
- Domino Drop - iOS
- Robb
- Batman Arkham Asylum
- Lego Jurassic World
- Almost Impossible - iOS
- iOS Game Revenue & Launch Details
Apps
- Robb
- Plot Movies
- SketchParty TV
- SketchParty TV for the new Apple TV: The Story so Far
- iOS9 Notes
- John
- Reeder
- Copied
Podcasts
- John
- Reconcilable Differences
- Cortex
- Welcome to Macintosh
- Robb
- Top Four
- Don't miss the Christmas Music Special featuring @imyke and @adinaaa
- Under the Radar
- Defocused
Music
- John
- Art Angels, Grimes
- V, Waves
- Every Open Eye, Chvrches
- Positive Songs for Negative People, Frank Turner
- Robb
- Girl Talk
- Inquisitive #43: Favourite Album: Serenity Caldwell and 'All Day' - Relay FM
- Kung Fury Soundtrack
- Mitch Murder
Misc
- John
- Zebra Sarasa Gel Retractable 0.5 mm black
- Beers
- Todd the Axe Man, Surly
- Enjoy by [date], Stone
- Grapefruit Sculpin, Ballast Point
- BeerMenus - Find Great Beer on the App Store
- Robb
- Lego Helicarrier
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1 hr 8 min - 9 - Stupid Tiny Adaptor
John and Robb discuss Kickstarter, headphones, copycat apps and the new X-Men trailer.
Follow Up
- Menu - The Frontier Chicago
- iPhone 6 Wallet Case, iPhone 6 Wally Wallet Case | Distil Union
- Minimalist Wallet Thoughts — scrubbs.me
Kickstarter
- How long will 'Paint Drying' be?
- An unusual commission — Medium
- Robb Lewis —Kickstarter
- I wonder what it's like to be dyslexic by Sam Barclay —Kickstarter
- SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works by Darren Wall —Kickstarter
- App: The Human Story by Story & Pixel —Kickstarter
- CINCH :: A Rad Minimalist Wallet :: Slim, Simple, Secure by Portsmith Co. —Kickstarter
- Maintenance-Free Bicycles that Make Cycling Easy by Dave Weiner —Kickstarter
- The Pen Addict Podcast: Live at the 2015 Atlanta Pen Show by NockCo —Kickstarter
Headphones
- Robb Lewis on Twitter: "Mark the day: If Apple remove the headphone port next year, I’m going Android."
- Sennheiser Momentum 1.0 Closed Circumaural Over-Ear: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics
- The Best Bluetooth On- or Over-Ear Headphones | The Wirecutter
- Audio-Technica ATH-M50X Studio Monitor Professional Headphones - Black: Amazon.co.uk: Musical Instruments
- Amazon.com: Sennheiser PX 200 II Closed Mini Headphones with Integrated Vol Control (Black): Electronics
- Amazon.com: JayBird BlueBuds X Sport Bluetooth Headphones - Midnight Black: Cell Phones & Accessories
- Beats Powerbeats2 Wireless In-Ear Headphones, Active Collection - Apple
- Amazon.com: Plantronics BackBeat Fit Bluetooth Headphones - Green: Cell Phones & Accessories
- Ep. 137: ‘Peak Rumor Season’, With Special Guest John Moltz — The Talk Show With John Gruber — Overcast
- Apple releases $99 iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case, Apple’s first official battery pack iPhone case | 9to5Mac
Copycat Apps
- John Voorhees on Twitter: "One of these things is not like the others... Hint: it's legit. https://t.co/DZbx8Z5qk9"
- Copying a design is easy, but creating a great experience is hard. — Medium
- How App Store grifters clone an overnight success to make a quick buck | Ars Technica
- Robb Lewis on Twitter: "“Oh Flappy Bird? No no. This is Flappy Salmon. Completely different.” https://t.co/mqiF5mzHNr"
Misc
- X-MEN: APOCALYPSE | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX - YouTube
- Best News Bloopers 2015 on Devour.com
- Top Four #9: Christmas Music - Relay FM
- The high cost of podcasting. Robb records a show, his cat kills a pigeon: http://d.pr/i/1j1Uy
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58 min - 8 - A Robb-Approved Product
This week, John and Robb discuss pulled-pork and burger follow-up, affiliate links, terrible mobile apps and finish up with some interesting Kickstarters and the new Civil War trailer.
"A Robb-Approved Product"
- Batman (1989) - IMDb
- Nicholas Cage Pillow Case
- Nicholas Cage Shirt
- Dan Bostonweeks on Twitter: "I sent feedback to Amazon via the Amazon Instant Video iOS app about supporting tvOS. They say it’s in development. https://t.co/52fYUgtgNs"
- Apple Pencil Review — The Pen Addict
- Connected #67: Being in Charge of a Space Rocket - Relay FM
- Robb in the newspaper
- Au Cheval
- Why People Wait for Hours to Eat Au Cheval's Cheeseburger - Eater Chicago
- Top 5 Burgers in America : Food Network
- The Burger at Chicago's Au Cheval is Just About Perfect - Bon Appétit
- The World-Famous Billy Goat Tavern
- A Comprehensive Guide to the iTunes Affiliate Program
- The Daily App
- Ventra App
- Make the Censors Watch 'Paint Drying' by Charlie Lyne — Kickstarter
- How long will 'Paint Drying' be?
- Faceparty on the App Store
- Machine Era Ti5 Slim Wallet by Adam Hogsett — Kickstarter
- CNCH :: Stainless Steel Minimalist Wallet w/ Bottle Opener – Portsmith Co.
- Reeder 3 on the App Store
- Fully-functional LEGO computers – BrickCon 2015 - YouTube
- The Civil War Begins – 1st Trailer for Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War” - YouTube
- Jessica Jones (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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1 hr 19 min - 7 - You Can't Really Say Home Video Now
John and Robb discuss the Apple TV after two weeks of use, Dropbox Paper, the iPad Pro and their holiday anti-gift guide.
Follow Up
- The Dark Knight Trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Batman (1989) - IMDb
- Batman Returns (1992) - IMDb
- Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken - Gus Fried Chicken
- Food Network is Latest to Proclaim Au Cheval's Burger the Best in America
- Au Cheval
- David Smith on Twitter: "I started a Watch workout before stepping on stage for my @release_notes talk. Public speaking is serious exercise. https://t.co/YvrjWZJrEo"
Apple TV
- SteelSeries Nimbus Wireless Gaming Controller - Apple (UK)
- Mike Piatek-Jimenez on Twitter: "Seasonality TV is #31 top grossing app overall in the tvOS App Store, with only around $200 in sales over the past 4 days."
- Dan Counsell on Twitter: "Nice! Almost Impossible! is #36 in the top paid charts on AppleTV: https://t.co/2IEeHsrTUI That’s not saying much, sales are low."
- SketchParty TV for the new Apple TV: The Story so Far — Medium
- SketchParty TV on the App Store
- Evel Knievel
- Apple TV Apps
- Under the Radar - Relay FM
- Provenance – James Addyman
- Aerial
- tvOSBrowser
- Joe Rosensteel on Twitter: "@johnvoorhees One thing I haven't figured out yet: Is the state of your Apple TV backed up anywhere? Do you have to do all that over again?"
- Magpie Video
- Upgrade #61: Accidental Trek Podcast - Relay FM
- Connected #64: We Hugged a Lot - Relay FM
Dropbox Paper
- Dropbox - Paper
- Connected #62: Siri Like the Butler - Relay FM
iPad Pro
- Why the iPad Pro needs Xcode by Steve Streza
- “Why the iPad Pro Needs Xcode” – MacStories (linked)
- forgottentowel* on Twitter: "@johnvoorhees Illustrators maybe. Graphic designers not so much, but due to a lack of software. I like it though!"
Misc
- Chris Gonzales on Twitter: "The only Christmas gift you need this year. You’re welcome. https://t.co/VAXjO0SjwC"
- Butterkist Discoveries Hickory BBQ Pulled Pork Popcorn
- Robb Lewis » New York
- Australian Wild Pig Drinks 18 Beers, Gets in Fight with Cow : Animals : Nature World News
- Lego Ghostbusters HQ Revealed - Studs.me
- LEGO on Twitter: "First look at official images of 75827 Firehouse Headquarters! Available January 2016 https://t.co/mOqRRKYTQJ https://t.co/MeVDEST10T"
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1 hr 5 min
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A podcast about the web, games, and terrible food.