Verbose

Verbose

By Liam Dunne, Karl Monaghan, Oisin HurleyTechnologyTech News
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  • Episode 43: Random Ramblings

    Random Ramblings


    In which we talk politics, but in an extremely circuitous manner

    Shownotes:


    Captain America

    Ull 2017

    Gitlab problems

    iPads?

    Linea

    Spreadsheets

    Swift

    Tellys

    Upgrading hardware

    Impending MacBook Pro

    Tesla cars in Ireland for test drives

    Politics again, ugh

    1 hr 21 min
  • Episode 42: Accept No Substitute

    Accept No Substitute


    In which we find ourselves Oisin-less, but manage to locate a reasonably acceptable last minute replacement. We also talk for far too long about Westworld spoilers.

    Shownotes:


    00:00:00 Disclaimer: once again, Liam is demonstrably wrong on the internet.

    00:00:44 We substitute Oisin's at this point. Seamless.

    00:01:20 Oisin tells us about the latest version of Castro, Supertop's premium podcasing app for the discerning podcasting listener, and its new CarPlay functionality

    00:15:12 The MacBook battery life indicator is not working. Panic ensues! The MacBook battery life indicator has disappeared. Panic averted.

    00:23:40 We discuss Westworld, with maximum spoilers.

    00:33:32 We also discuss The Walking Dead, also spoiler-laden, with digressions into Lost & Groundhog Day & Under The Skin

    00:46:33 Ferrite, an excellent podcast recording & editing app for iOS

    00:48:59 How Amazon Go will destroy us all

    01:04:30 We somehow segue into discussing universal minimum wage & the economic effects of technological developments

    01:19:10 Amazon Prime is coming to Ireland! Video only though *sadface*

    01:22:46 We talk about the Christmas Xcake lightning talks

    01:29:12 AirPods!

    01:34:17 Fin

    1 hr 35 min
  • Episode 41: Darkest Timeline

    Darkest Timeline


    In which we pass comment on the unfolding events in the world today

    Shownotes:


    00:02:20 Xcake shoutout: volunteers for talks, Christmas meetup

    00:05:07 Oisin tells us all about Úll 2016

    00:28:59 We discuss the US Presidential election, with a pinch of Brexit for good measure

    00:43:15 What we think of the new Macbooks Pro

    00:47:44 The Apple Data Center in Athenry

    00:52:10 Graphic novels & other literature:

    - The Incal by Moebius & Jodorosky

    - The Thrilling Adventures of Babbage & Lovelace by Sydney Padua

    - Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

    - Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie by Anne Martinetti and Guillaume Lebeau & Alexandre Franc

    - Jerusalem by Alan Moore

    - The Cobweb & Interface by Neal Stephenson

    - Step Aside, Pops by Kate Beaton

    01:04:57 TV: Black Mirror, Gotham, Westworld

    1 hr 13 min
  • Episode 39: Tangential

    Tangential


    In which we start off talking about one thing and then go off in a completely different direction altogether.

    Shownotes:


    - New Phones? Not yet, for us

    - Samsung phones keep on exploding

    - New Google hardware products!

    - Millenials. What are they?

    - iMessage metadata made available to police searches: what it means for you

    - We digress into talking about Karl's new fat stacks (of comics!)

    - We finish up by talking about the lack of new desktop Apple Macs

    1 hr 24 min
  • Episode 38: Anticip...

    …pation. In which we await, with breath bated, sundry assorted updates of the hardware and software varieties.

    Shownotes:

    - New iPhone Incoming

    - All the old hardware that has yet to be updated [do not buy] EVERYWHERE

    - Swift 3 experiences so far (if any) everything is broken

    - Betas: everything is broken and then fixed and then broken. But the new automatic provisioning seems to work? If you're only on 1 team or you remember to set the correct team.

    - Our iOS 10 experiences so far

    - External GPU for MacBook Pro hardware


    Kickstarter campaign pitching external GPU for MacBook Pro, promising up to 10x performance increase, fully-funded on day one, offering a choice of two external GPUs for MacBook Pros that offer up to ten times the performance of the top-end built-in one. Connected via Thunderbolt 2 or 3, the Wolfe Pro gets you an NVIDIA GTX 970 GPU for $599, with estimated delivery in March 2017. The GTX 970 has 1664 cores operating at 1050MHz, for a peak computing power of 3.49 teraflops, with rendering speeds almost ten times higher than a maxed-out 15-inch MacBook

    https://9to5mac.com/2016/08/24/macbook-pro-external-gpu-kickstarter-wolfe/

    - VR headsets? (Picked one up in Dunnes two days ago)

    - Castro 2 released & the Supertop guys now have their own podcast too! Also, they've removed the Verbose podcast from their screenshots, like, what's up with that, lads?

    1 hr 6 min
  • Episode 37: Two For The Price Of One

    In which we lose a Karl, but gain an Oisin. We're joined by Oisin Prendiville from Supertop, developers of the excellent podcast app Castro, the RSS feed reader app Unread, & Tokens & Tophat for MacOSX, amongst others.

    Shownotes:


    - WWDC2016

    - Enhanced push notifications, improved force touch, betas, enhanced iMessages, and more

    - We discuss Supertop's Castro 2, with great anticipation!

    - The new Apple Store on Union Square

    - Oisin tells us about coding on the road, traveling around the globe & juggling timezones

    - Headphones, and the potential lack thereof in future phone hardware releases

    - Spotify take issue with Apple's review process, and get an update blocked

    - Updates to the App Store, including app updates & subscriptions, and how that will impact indie developers

    1 hr 49 min
  • Episode 36: Post-post Hiatus

    In which, after another extended break, we return to the microphones once more to discuss a range of topics, some dear to our hearts, some offensively repellant to everyone.

    Shownotes


    0:03:47 - Google IO: The 10 biggest announcements

    http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11701030/google-io-2016-keynote-highlights-announcements-recap

    0:16:16 - Monument Valley in numbers: Year 2


    https://medium.com/@ustwogames/monument-valley-in-numbers-year-2-440cf5562fe#.11abngm2y

    0:24:35 A brief digression into movies based on games.

    0:28:15 - Billionaire Blackmail


    http://scripting.com/2016/05/25/1283.html

    http://fusion.net/story/306927/peter-thiel-gawker-dangerous-blueprint/

    https://stratechery.com/2016/peter-thiel-comic-book-hero/

    0:44:18 VR: a non-comprehensive review of our hastily-cobbled together opinions on the matter.

    0:46:01 3D Touch


    Are we still using it?

    0:48:32 P-Calc Tshirts


    We're hoping to get our hands on some, James, if you're listening. Also, apparently WWDC will be happening soon. Revel in the anticipation of those of us who aren't actually going to San Francisco for the week.

    1 hr 5 min
  • Episode 35: Post Hiatus

    In which we return after missing out entirely on the whole month of March, due to prior commitments. As a result, it’s even longer and even more ill prepared than usual.

    Shownotes:


    0:01:46 - I Am A Robot

    Well, at least one of us is: http://mashable.com/2016/03/21/apple-liam-recycling-robot/

    0:03:16 - The new Apple hardware we really, really needed most of all


    Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter. It’s a godsend for podcasters & musicians: http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0W2AM/A/lightning-to-usb-3-camera-adapter

    0:08:32 We discuss our collection of assorted iOS devices, collected over the years.

    0:13:47 - Apple is doomed, DOOMED


    Dip in iPhone sales, maybe the iPhone SE can help: http://www.wired.com/2016/04/iphone-sales-decline/

    0:22:36 Airplane USB sockets in the cockpit getting infected by charging Android devices

    0:26:30 - Don’t switch off your ad-blockers just yet


    EC says it’s illegal for sites to check if you’re ad-blocking them: https://twitter.com/martijn_grooten/status/724534139173609472

    0:28:13 - Happy birthday Apple Watch!


    Have some diatribes: http://www.macworld.com/article/3061053/ios/over-the-top-making-your-apple-watch-diatribe-stand-out.html

    0:34:39 - Stephen Troughton Smith’s WWDC Wishlist


    Some great ideas we’d all love to get from Apple this June: http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/post/140141855080/wwdc-wish-list

    0:44:49 - What happened when LeftPad was pulled from NPM


    Relying on third-party remote-hosted modules is bad, okay?: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/

    1:09:46 - SoundCloud double-charging whammy


    Dave Wiskus on SoundCloud’s new paid offline feature, SoundCloud Go, and why it’s a crappy thing to do for artists: http://airplanemo.de/blog/to-soundcloud-love-dave

    1:17:46 The trouble with the App Store Tribbles


    A detailed article from Pixite, developers of several amazing apps (Pigment & Assembly, but also Tangent, Matter, Union, Fragment, Lory Stripes & Shift): http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/2/11140928/app-store-economy-apple-android-pixite-bankruptcy

    1:22:36 Assembly for iOS by Pixite


    We talk about a fantastic vector drawing, in the style of Ed Emberly: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/assembly-design-graphics-icons/id1024210402?mt=8

    1:27:15 - We’re not in Kansas anymore


    More on that GeoIP glitch problem for a farm located roughly in the exact geographic centre of the United States: http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/

    1:31:17 - Apple Vs FBI


    We make a concerted agreement not to engage in discussion with regards this subject in any way whatsoever shape or form.

    1:32:01 - Postman for desktop!


    Supercharge your API workflow: http://www.getpostman.com

    1 hr 38 min
  • Episode 34: Backdoor Man

    In which we talk about other people's letters.

    Shownotes:

    0:00:00 A Customer Letter.

    [apple.com](http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/)

    0:01:05 That FBI request in question.

    [assets.documentcloud.org (pdf)](http://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2714001/SB-Shooter-Order-Compelling-Apple-Asst-iPhone.pdf)

    0:03:56 China has already requested backdoors into all foreign companies’ products.

    [reuters.com](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-china-idUSKBN0LY2H520150302)

    0:04:59 Counterpoint: Apple have already unlocked iPhones in the past on request by the authorities

    [thedailybeast.com](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/17/apple-unlocked-iphones-for-the-feds-70-times-before.html)

    0:09:08 Error 53: So it turns out that Error 53 may not be such a bad thing after all.

    [twitter.com/grahamvsworld](https://twitter.com/grahamvsworld/status/696026307948228608)

    0:10:29 Cars do it. Phones do it.

    [twitter.com/jonny290](https://twitter.com/jonny290/status/696026823902146561)

    0:13:28 Google (& others) have somewhat declared support, in a vaguely wishy-washy manner.

    [bloomberg.com](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-18/google-sides-with-apple-in-protesting-government-decryption)

    0:13:29 EFF to support Apple.

    [eff.org](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/eff-support-apple-encryption-battle)

    0:16:28 Not an Onion headline: The SKYNET program is already in operation. [arstechnica.co.uk](http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-program-may-be-killing-thousands-of-innocent-people/)

    0:22:39 Farewell to Timezones? We can only live in hope. [washingtonpost.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/02/12/the-radical-plan-to-destroy-time-zones-2/)

    0:27:47 Benson Leung, USB-C detective extraordinaire, fried his Chromebook Pixel with a dodgy cable [geek.com](http://www.geek.com/news/google-engineer-finds-usb-type-c-cable-so-bad-it-broke-his-chromebook-pixel-1646212/)

    0:35:15 That dude that wrote that letter about homelessness in San Francisco...

    0:40:05 Commandline Corner: The Keybase filesystem [keybase.io](https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs)

    0:43:02 Karl has two phones.

    0:43:33 Weather forecasts via finger (only in Norway, unfortunately)

    0:47:02 Sublime Text: Back in development again (wuhoo!) [thenextweb.com](http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/02/09/sublime-text-is-being-developed-again-after-a-year-dormant/)

    0:54:18 Lego talk

    0:56:50 James Thomson's PCalc has hitherto unknown secret features!

    0:58:20 Stolen becomes Famous (with help from Zoe Quinn)

    1 hr 11 min
  • Episode 32: Revisiting

    In which we discuss the many and varied things that the year of 2015 has presented us with.

    Shownotes:


    Year in review:

    - AppleWatch

    - New AppleTV (Oisin finally got one!)

    - iPad Pro

    - Gold MacBook

    - iPhone 6S

    Thanks to Drop for supplying the Xcake prize for the lightning talks! And thanks to Marian O'Shea for giving the winning talk!

    Paolo's RTE Player app (repo)

    Swift: we talk the benefits of opensourcing

    iOS pushtoken issues that we have experienced

    Fastlane is amazing (as we discussed in the past, and no doubt will continue to be discussed in the future)

    Martin Shkreli's continuing adventures (to be curtailed shortly, we imagine)

    AppleTV Tech Talks in January

    Lego & hoverboards! Well, it is Christmas after all.

    Movies in review! (no spoilers)

    1 hr 20 min

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The Verbose Podcast is a monthly Apple tech podcast presented by Oisin Hurley, Karl Monaghan & Liam Dunne