Accidental Tech Podcast

494: Ultra-Wideband Park Bench

08.04.2022 - By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John SiracusaPlay

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Pre-show: Geometry Dash

Number Munchers

Number Munchers on Classic Reload

Number Munchers on the App Store

Unity

Unity CEO’s colorful opinions

The Talk Show #353: Shop Different

Playdate Pulp

VVVVVV

FromSoftware

Follow-up:

John on M1 MacBook Air vs. M2 MacBook Air speakers

You can set up Fastmail to have a catch-all

Casey’s referral code

Find My on vacation

Steps via Steve J. Stutz

Open Find My

Tap Devices

Tap on the device you want to silence

Scroll down and under Notifications toggle off Notify When Left Behind

Paul Squires understood the assignment

HomeKit automation & locations

Derek Martin has tips regarding how to transfer to a new home address

Jim Bruhn provides instructions for how to disable hub features:

Settings

Airplay and HomeKit

Home Hub → My Home

Switch to Disconnected

Are there any decent AppleTV photo-viewer apps? (via Torb Lunde Mirada)

Contact address ordering

Reorder It! from @takaaki024app (via philuop)

Robb Woodring saves the day with changing default messaging address/number

Go to an existing thread

Tap the name of the person at the top

Tap Info

Tap and hold the Message/bubble icon

Select the appropriate number

Unlocking automotive features

Blaine Toups’ Jaguar F-Type’s two extra cylinders

Car & Driver write-up

Tesla’s Acceleration Boost (via Josh Rapoport)

Sean Harding makes a good point about API deprecation

John’s New TV

Amazon link

Previously on ATP…

Dirac Live

FILMMAKER MODE

4K HDR Demo Video

Mac OS X Unix-style crash

Post-show: Is it okay to copy a competitor’s API?

S3

Cloudflare R2

Linode Object Storage Service

Backblaze B2

Ceph

Transmit

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