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184: Procedural Marriage Mistakes
Twitter quality filter for everyone John buys a camera Sony Alpha α6300 Sony E 50mm f/1.8 OSS Lens Sony E 20mm F2.8 Prime Fixed Lens Canon 40mm Pancake Sony 35mm FE 2.8 (Almost-)Pancake John's toaster reviews Tiff tries to play Inside using Boot Camp Ridiculous habits of the youths of Britain iPhone 7 rumors Battery life: Apple's solving for x Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Casey and John share a private moment Incoming call with knock-knock disabled Call quality prompt Sponsored by: Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code ALWAYSONVACATION for 10% off your first purchase. Indochino: Finely crafted, exceptionally priced menswear. Get any custom-made suit for just $399 with code ATP. Betterment: Investing made better. Become a member!
183: I Filed a Radar
QNX and generally crappy car computing hardware Audio sync, drift, and quartz crystals Marco files a Radar MLLT Audiocogs CORS Libsyn's podcast with global stats ATP's audience podcast-app stats from a recent episode John and Wi-Fi calling (Settings → Phone → Wi-Fi Calling) Verizon Wi-Fi calling FAQ Google and Facebook also do charity matches on bug bounties Casey iMac Update TiVo "lifetime" service ends for the Series 1 Brianna Wu's verification experience What is an appropriate amount of diversity? Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Instagram Stories Connected #103 (Overcast timestamp link) What makes a good user interface? Sponsored by: Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off the new Automatic Pro with this link. TrackR: Find lost items in seconds. Get 30% off your entire order with code ATP. Betterment: Investing made better. Become a member!
182: I Had to Reboot My Car Today
John's camera hunt continues The tradeoffs of zoom lenses Sony Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm lens Sony RX10 III superzoom that John probably should get, but won't Fuji X-T2 Sony A7R II, Marco's camera iFixit teardown Sony A7 II, the cheaper, older one Differences between A7 II and A7R II Olympus OM-D E-M10, Casey's camera Panasonic Summilux 25mm f/1.4 Micro 4/3 lens, Casey's 50mm-equivalent The mediocrity of car infotainment systems QNX powers BMW iDrive Worse Products Through Software The ARM Mac feedback that won't die Planet of the Apps announces their advisers Gary Vaynerchuk Cork'd Winecast Apple TV Guide Apple launches bug bounties The Verge's take Tweet with picture of bounties Securosis's take Apple's new diversity numbers Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Why podcasts aren't VBR MP3s MP3 file structure More on frame headers, including the Xing VBR jump table Existing standard ID3 tags that could solve the problem, but appear not to be supported by anything: ASPI: Not precise enough for long podcasts. MLLT: Provides any precision level. A good candidate, but unsupported everywhere. A VBR version of this episode with Xing and MLLT tags Compared to the CBR version, it's 25% smaller with better quality during the theme song Sponsored by: Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code RIPTIVO for 10% off your first purchase. Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase. Linode: Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $10/month. Use code AccidentalPodcast10 for a $10 credit. Become a member!
181: Eat Your Vegetables
John rents a camera for his Long Island vacation Lens Rentals Sony α7R II John's rentals Sony Alpha α6300 (at LensRentals) Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS Sony E 18-105mm f/4 G PZ OSS Sony E 50mm f/1.8 OSS Sony RX10 Casey's setup ATP: The Fully Verified Podcast™ Temporarily-single dad life Casey pretends _'s Tesla is his Casey samples the frunk Apple hires Dan Dodge, co-creator of QNX QNX Operating System Real-time operating system Swift 4 Rovi buys TiVo Macrovision Rambus Set Top Box plans CableCARD Apple's Trouble with TV Hypercritical #1: Dream Crusher Hypercritical #58: No More Numbers For You / The Four Tuners Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: yet more on TiVo Sponsored by: Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code ATP for $50 toward your mattress. Warby Parker: Boutique-quality, vintage-inspired glasses at a revolutionary price. Try up to five pairs at home for free. Eero: Finally, Wi-Fi, that works. Use code ATP for free overnight shipping. Become a member!
180: Don't Cry for John, Argentina
Follow-up: Pokémon Free-to-Play Dogs The Sweet Home Looking at the bright side of Apple's ancient Mac lineup Twitter Verification Attacks on Leslie Jones Federico Viticci of MacStories Twitter accounts: Marco John Casey ATP Overcast Verified Analog(ue) #85: Truly Terrible Human Beings Marco's podcast post-production app Under the Radar #36: Should You Release Every App? Bugshot Quitter Piracy-reduction techniques Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: More on passwords and piracy protection How Tiff can play Inside Samsung T3 VMware Fusion Sponsored by: Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code VERIFIED for 10% off your first purchase. Trunk Club: Premium clothing, great advice, zero work. Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Get $5 off your first purchase with this link. Become a member!
179: Free-to-Play Dogs
Follow-up: Casey's iMac Feedback Pushover Pokémon Go Science Museum of Virginia's Pokémon announcement Maymont Park's exclusive event Rent-a-dog SoftBank to buy ARM Recode's take Gorilla Glass Apple hardware stagnation Stephen Hackett's laptop reviews How does Marco's Sidetrack work? Fast Fourier transform Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: What's appropriate to talk about on ATP? Erasure Randy Pausch's Last Lecture Sponsored by: Indochino: Finely crafted, exceptionally priced menswear. Get any custom-made suit for just $399 with code ATP. TrackR: Find lost items in seconds. Get 30% off your entire order with code ATP. Betterment: Investing made better. Become a member!
178: Mama Needs That Pokémon
Follow-up: Hackintoshes work sometimes Charles Perry's Mac Mini Story Contour Design RollerMouse Pro2 Casey's 5K iMac (Late 2015, 4GHz i7) Woes WindowServer: GPU Driver appears to be hung (over 5 continous seconds of unreadiness) Later RTFU tweet Planet of the Apps Clockwise #145: I've Always Wanted to Have a French Accent Original New York Times article from March Indie Game: The Movie Phil Fish Prospect Productions' Works Pokémon Go Ingress Niantic Ramp Champ Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Tesla Autopilot Sponsored by: Betterment: Investing made better. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code ITSNOTTHERAM for 10% off your first purchase. Pingdom: Uptime and performance monitoring made easy. Use code ATP for 20% off. Become a member!
177: Paying for Someone to Blame
Follow-up: Dave Nanian of SuperDuper fame on HDMI CEC Ripping Blu-rays for Apple TV: MakeMKV Subler Plex Infuse DS Video Don Melton's video-transcoding scripts The TV Database The Movie Database Follow-up on Marco's HDMI CEC woes Follow-up: Matt Bischoff on ice cream ingredients Edy's vs. Dreyer's vs. Breyer's iCloud Drive vs. Dropbox for file syncing Scrivener Sync macOS Sierra and the case of the missing files Dropbox Infinite Hackintoshes still exist, apparently Marco's joke RT Old World ROM Isopoint Trackbar (more here) The poor Mac Mini Motorola Rokr Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show Neutral: Honda Accord SE Sponsored by: Trunk Club: Premium clothing, great advice, zero work. Wunder Capital: Do well and do good. Eero: Finally, Wi-Fi, that works. Use code ATP for free overnight shipping. Become a member!
176: Yellow Sock Time
Follow-up: Linus Torvalds on HFS+ See also IntegrityChecker chkbit PAR2 and Parchive Protecting against bit rot Mac Toolbox More on APFS Space sharing Time Machine and file/directory clones FSEvents Hard links Atomic clones TeachText Snapshots BackupLoupe Surprise HDMI CEC follow-up Logitech Harmony xkcd on standards "Screen time" for kids Transport Tycoon Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood Parent involvement with TV for preschoolers Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Girl Scout Cookies Talenti Gelato Ben & Jerry's Häagen-Dazs Breyer's Dreyer's Blue Bell Jeni's Sponsored by: Amazon Music: Songs of Summer: This Amazon Original playlist features exclusive originals and covers to get you set for the summer. Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase. Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code ATP for $50 toward your mattress. Become a member!
175: Dance Palace
Marco trying to parallelize the LAME MP3 encoder macOS Sierra and John's comically old Mac Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist The Talk Show Live Marco's Pictures Deleting system apps on iOS 10 Search ads using names of other apps Apple Photos and controller search Example success List of strings for Photos search Thunderbolt Display has been discontinued Apple File System WWDC Video Btrfs Andrew File System Unicode Joel Spolsky on Unicode ASCII UTF-16 UTF-8 Latin small letter "e" with acute Unicode Normalization Forms Apple Tech Note 1150 HFS+ Unicode Subtleties Linus Torvalds on HFS+ Shift JIS Data integrity Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Email and parenting Sponsored by: Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use promo code ATP10 for 10% off your first order. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code APFS for 10% off your first purchase. Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated. Become a member!
174: A Ding in the Room
Recorded live from Marco's hotel room at WWDC Apple WWDC reactions Keynote video watchOS Preview tvOS Preview The Talk Show #146 macOS Preview John's tweet about storage optimization 🛎 New filesystem! 🛎 Platforms State of the Union session video (ding around at 1:00:00) Introducing Apple File System session video Intel AES iOS Preview Home button change in behavior SiriKit app category support Mail error message Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Sponsored by: Pingdom: Uptime and performance monitoring made easy. Use code ATP for 20% off. Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off with this link. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use promo code ATP10 for 10% off your first order. Become a member!
173: A Series of Heartbreaking Rejections
Follow-up: No 5K Monitor at WWDC iPhone "7" & SE: Third Time's a Charm macOS in official documentation? Photo evidence App Store changes announced this week Apple's official pages: Subscription changes Search ads Example image Press interviews with Phil Schiller: Daring Fireball The Verge The Loop The Telegraph Under the Radar #31: Today's App Store Announcements Brent Simmons' request for clarification People can't see ads Casey's take on DuckDuckGo Covariance & contravariance WWDC Predictions Upgrade #92: WWDC 2016 Draft Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Marco changes an opinion World of Goo Human Resource Machine Leuchtturm1917 Pen Loop from Myke's Pencil Hacks Sponsored by: Ring: Put your mind at ease and protect your home with the world’s most advanced video doorbell. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code K56FLEX for 10% off your first purchase. Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated. Become a member!
172: iPhone X
Last call for ATP Shirts! Sale ends on Friday ATP-time! John's attic K56Flex vs. X2 Hayes command set Modem sounds More on the rumored new MBPs USB Power Delivery External Retina Display Thunderbolt Display Apple opening Siri iPhone 7 "tick"? Apple considered buying Time Warner Eddy Cue at the Warriors game Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: New Top Gear Chris Evans Sabine Schmitz Simon Pegg Grand Tour Extra Gear Chris Harris Fifth Gear Sponsored by: Eero: Finally, Wi-Fi, that works. Use code ATP for free overnight shipping. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use promo code ATP10 for 10% off your first order. Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code ATP for $50 toward your mattress. Become a member!
171: WWDC Is Not Santa Claus
Pre-show: ATP Shirts! BMW M Marco's illustration Follow-up: App Store review times The Talk Show #154 - Facebook on Your Face Force quitting apps on Android & iOS Rumored new MacBook Pro MacRumors Buying Guide Optimus Keyboard Clockwise #138 – You Know What You're Signing Up For Windows SideShow Cortex #29 - Dvorak Magic Keyboard IBM Model M PowerBook G4 Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard Apple Extended Aluminum Keyboard Apple Extended II Apple Opening Siri & Developing Echo Rival Marco's post Functional High Ground Phish Meatstick video Pixel Envy - Meet VocalIQ Craig Hockenberry on logins Getting the best from both Apple and Google Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Casey's identity crisis Google Photos Connected #92 - My Relationship with the Status Bar Sponsored by: Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use promo code ATP10 for 10% off your first order. FreshBooks: Online invoicing made easy. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code EATFRESH for 10% off your first purchase. Become a member!
170: Casey Beats John, 29–29
Buy ATP 2016 T-shirts by June 3! Follow-up: Foodgate 2016 Yale/Harvard Bing bans "tech support" ads Debunking an Apple/podcasting conspiracy theory App Store approval times Under the Radar #27 Cabel's tweet Drinking bird Google I/O Keynote Google Home Weebles Google Allo Ello Font size interaction demo Google Duo & Knock Knock Android N Vulkan OpenGL ES Apple Metal AMD Mantle JIT compilation Multitasking Instant Apps OpenDoc Android Wear 2.0 Graffiti Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Compulsive app quitters Sponsored by: Pingdom: Uptime and performance monitoring made easy. Use code ATP for 20% off. Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off with this link. Ring: Put your mind at ease and protect your home with the world’s most advanced video doorbell. Become a member!