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- Curmudgeons
In which we get grumpy about technology. And Karl isn’t even here this time around, so we can’t blame him.
Shownotes:
The Apple Car. We do our utmost to add to the general speculation.iMoreGigaomWSJI got a feeling Samsung is watching me (and I got no privacy). Philip K Dick gets a mention too, but honestly, we’re not paranoid.
Ars TechnicaHuff Po19 potential hours of Apple Watch battery life? Not too bad for a 1st gen device.
Mac Rumours9to5 MacAt one point we begin to talk about the upgradability of the Apple Watch, and then somehow the remainder of the conversation quickly devolves into general grumpiness about technology and what it ever did for us (apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health)
Zane Lowe + Beats = Oisin’s least favourite word ever. (Hint: it’s “curation”)
9to5 MacSwift 1.2, yay! Still just a beta, not yet ready for production :(
apple.com/swift/blogErica SadunWe miss you Karl. Come back soon…
58 min - Episode 21: Things
In which we talk about new things! And old things. Also borrowed things, and blue things.
Shownotes:
State of the App Store: Things are good.App Store pricing discrepancies: change in EU VAT laws seem to have caused weird random things to happen to App Store pricing (RTE.ie)
Bitcoin purchases of things potentially causing problems with the EU VAT laws
App Store refund policy: overuse of refunds is tracked by Apple, and restricted if necessary.
UK surveillance laws may have the potential to block WhatsApp, Snapchat & even iMessage, if it comes to pass. This devolved into a ranty discussion of how politicians are passing ridiculous laws about things that they have no understanding of.
Apple Software quality: Should Apple slow down the rate of the release of new OS versions, to ensure the quality of said releases? Lots and lots of things to read here:
- colincornaby
- imore
- leancrew
- tapadoo
- macstories
- fastcompany
- mjtsai
- @jamesthomson12 inches of Macbook Air, aww yeah.
- imore
- gizmodoVirtual Reality as the new latest great thing (again), and how to record video for it. Outcome: we invented the Everyone-Elsie Stick (pat. pending)
Apple's camera patent mentioning GoPro causes GoPro's stock to plummet 15%.
Netflix VPN blocking: not actually a thing.
(Tangential discussion on why region-locking as a way of tracking user viewing preferences is dumb, and why regional licensing laws drives users to alternative methods of getting content)We're really, really looking forward to the release of Big Hero 6.
*sings* Moonpig.com! Epic security fail.
Our high points from 2014! Followed rapidly by our low points from 2014.
Panic's 2014 Report
We wind up the episode talking about the various conferences that we probably won't be going to this year *sadface*
1 hr 21 min - Episode 20: Retractions
In which we discuss how Apple has extended things, then they retracted them, and then retracted the retractions, allowing things to be extended once more.
Shownotes:
Extensions are great, yay! Except when we're not allow use them, boo.
- Apple's 'unwritten rules' spark discontent among some app developers (Guardian)
- Don’t Panic: Apple reverses stance on iCloud Drive in Transmit (gigaom.com)
- Launcher Followup and Thoughts on the App Store Review System (Cromulent Labs)
- Panic Transmit iOS Send to iCloud blocked by Apple (updated) (Panic)
- TidBITS: iOS 8 App Development Becomes a “Bring Me a Rock” Game (tidbits.com)App Store search is broken (Gedeon Maheux)
Papers, Please app approved for iPad, but without nude body-scans (Guardian)
Bye bye, Pirate Bay
- Swedish Police raid The Pirate Bay, site offline (torrentfreak.com)
- The Pirate Bay, Closed (brokep.com)Not going to link to it, but we think James Thomson handled his response to the guy using a third party code sign utility to attempt to pirate his app in the best way possible (i.e., without resorting to extreme rage & violence)
Minimum vacation policy at Travis CI
HockeyApp sells to Microsoft (Hockeyapp)
New stuff:
- CodeRunner v2! (coderunner.com)
- SCXcodeMiniMap (github.com)
- Swift Translation Guide by Maurice Kelly (swift-translation.guide)
- Workflow (macstories.net, iTunes)Delta’s handy Flight Picker
Bagpipes outside your office? Try NoiseMachines instead.
1 hr 34 min - Episode 19: Uncertainty
In which we're uncertain about several topics. Of course, when has this ever stopped us talking at length about such topics?
Show notes:
We are 18! And legally entitled to drink and vote.
Online payment provider CurrentC's API flaw based around returning explicit 404s against emails (tweet from @noir)
Oisin switched off his HTML email (and can't figure out how to switch it back on)
App extensions, and what Apple lets us do with them (we still don't really know (link), and we're kind of guessing neither does Apple yet)
The current state of piracy on iOS apps (figures from James Thompson and Vinny Coyne)
The South Park episode on freemium apps (wikipedia)
Monument Valley additional levels (awesome!) and some users reactions to the Inpp purchase (less than awesome)
Complain about lack of downloads & drop the price as an alternative marketing strategy? (We're uncertain if this is an actual thing)
Space Age by Neven Mrgan & Matt Comi (which we haven't played yet). And its soundtrack by Cabel Sasser (which Liam has played, on repeat)
Tim Cook's letter
Russian college removes Steve Jobs Memorial because of gay.
Command line corner!- J2ObjC translator: Java to Objective C converter by Google
- Thrift by Facebook: Corba for the new millennium
- Calaba.sh: integration testing based on Cucumber (Oisin dislikes Cucumber)
- A dive into UIAccessibility in general
- ogmail: You can keep your Mailbox, this is extreme back to basics email
Bonus!
We talk about books, books, & more books.- Neil Gaiman's Eternals
- Iain M. Banks's Surface Detail
- The Diamond Age, Anathem, and The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (or how much Karl hates trilogies)
- Hannu Rajaniemi's Quantum Thief series
- Ann Lecke's Imperial Radch trilogy
- Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy and other books
- Laugh along while Karl and Liam have great difficulties attempting to pronounce 'Humble Bundle'.
- John Scalzi's Old Man's War being turned into a movie.
- Paolo Bacigalupi's Pump Six and Other Stories
- The Secret World Chronicle by Mercedes Lackey, Steve Libbey, Cody Martin, Dennis Lee, Adam Higgins, Laura Patterson, and Veronica Giguere (Here's Karl's scathing review on Goodreads)
100% recorded, edited and mastered on iOS, using Auria, AudioShare and Final Touch.
1 hr 13 min - Episode 18: Reactionary
In which we watch an Apple Special Event, we drink gin, and we react accordingly.
Shownotes:
Apple Special Event. October 16, 2014.
Apple Pay launched!
Yosemite launched!
WatchKit to be launched!
3rd Party Keyboards and what we think of them.
Health Kit and the problems with it so far.
Safari comparisons.
Karl has an extremely negative reaction to large mail attachments.
We reckon that Instant Hotspot is going to be this decade's Visual Voicemail (i.e., our carrier's won't allow us use it).
TouchID for second-screen APs
New iPads and iPad Minis!
Demo of Pixelmator for iPad looks great.
New 5k iMacs!
Skip ahead to 40 minutes if you want to get the Cliff's Notes version of what we think.
In other news:
Newsstand.
AsyncDisplayKit1 hr 1 min - Episode 17: All Along The Watchtower
In which we get excited by new shiny things. OMG LOOKIT ALL THE NEW SHINY THINGS!!!
Shownotes:
New Devices, new watches
Some digging into the stream issues
The bigger iPhone 6 Plus, there’s also an optical image stabilization system that uses the phone’s gyroscope and M8 processor to cancel out movements and shaking hands.
First world problems: choosing what credit card from your overflowing wallet.
At approximately 40min in, Karl says “just before the final thing”. Nevertheless, we continue to talk for another 60 minutes.
Stripe has its integration with applepay up already
"Although Apple announced some retail partners – including Macy’s and McDonald’s – some of the country’s biggest were absent. Mr Noyes said retailers were reluctant to sign up, partly because Apple Pay might trigger more use of credit cards, which impose more costs on merchants." Irish Times article
Credit card recognition technology: Card.io
Unsurprisingly buried news, this week.
Snapchat: settlement with a booted out co-founder
Tinder: settlement with ex vp of marketing over sexual harassment
Awful U2/Tim Cook "banter" was awful. AWFUL. Did I say AWFUL?
Rinse, reuse, recycle
How Apple Pay works and why it matters for developers, from clover.com
Craig Hockeyberry's 6000 word article article on the Terminal.
If you code or design for iOS, Sketchtool is freakin' awesome1 hr 36 min - Episode 16: Excremental
In which we discuss several announcements and updates by Apple, and also talk about some relevant and irrelevant software.
Shownotes:
Apple Announcement, September 6th (macrumours)
Apple Diversity on apple.com
Apple (and us) remember Robin Williams
Apple's job creation in Europe
Yang Meyer's beta release of Gemba, enjoyable “git push assets” for Designers
Shenzhen 0.8 by Matt Thompson, build and distribute .ipa files
Yo, updated
Uber in the news59 min - Episode 15: So Emotional
In which we allow ourselves to be emotionally manipulated by Facebook, if apathy can be considered an emotion.
Shownotes:
iOS is 6 years old!
We remember our old phones.
Third-party software reliance and its pitfalls.
Wifi on planes
Facebook’s emotional manipulation studies
- Controversy Over Facebook Emotional Manipulation Study Grows As Timeline Becomes More Clear
Odd numbered lists are the best kind of lists.
Inverted pig rectums.
UK Broadcast Data Retention Act
- All about DRIP
TV Licenses & Broadband providers
- An Post seek SKy, UPC data for TV licence detectionPotato Salad Kickstarter
The Google IO dramatic keynote
- (the edited video) they've removed the first 25 minutes of this version.
Calling All Kickstarter Funders Names Out While Chasing A Duck.
- Kickstarter Reward: Gabe will shout out your name as he chases a duck
Command Line Corner:
- Soundcloud2000
The right to be forgotten.
- The BBC story about being forgetten
- The post about it being removed1 hr 26 min - Episode 14: I Left My Heart
In which we swiftly discuss the events of the previous week at great length, and with many diverse tangents along the way.
Shownotes:
The WWDC Keynote
Adam McCarthy skips a queue
Karl wants a monocle
Swiftly moving on...
iOS Developers Need to Know Objective-C
Dave Addey writes a book
The Videos
The FrameworksEverything is broken
The Playground
The risk of putting iOS8 on your primary device
Scrollview Magic
Parties! Parties! Parties!
Castro eats your data (if you let it)
Karl's massive roll, and the associated livetweets
The Bacon
The Yosemite
Coast to Coast Toast to Toast Kickstarter (non-starter)
CommandLine Corner:
- OpenSnoop
- Synx
Bizarro Spanish localisation + AutoLayout quirks1 hr 30 min - Episode 13: Drunken Bums
In which we start off by drinking too much assorted beers, and it all goes rapidly downhill from there.
Shownotes:
Úll, and our feelings upon it (spoiler: they're all positive).
Jennifer Brook's Time Machine">DynamicsXray, a UIKit Dynamics runtime visualisation and introspection library.
Beats by Dre:
- Beats/Monster
- Beats, Why?
- Streaming Music…
WWDC Predictions! Mostly inaccurate.
iOS8? or will it be iOS7s?
iOS 7 Squandered a Year of Third-Party Development on Superficial Changes
Big screens, 1704 x 960 resolution screen
More discussions of autolayout...
Niall Kehoes Crazy War of the Worlds
Niall Kehoe's app on Broadsheet1 hr 43 min
About Verbose
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The Verbose Podcast is a monthly Apple tech podcast presented by Oisin Hurley, Karl Monaghan & Liam Dunne