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154: A Rich Toddler’s Toy
Follow-up: Audiobus used MIDI SysEx, not loopback networking Inter-App Audio on iOS offers Audio Unit extensibility Could Apple make a universal Lightning-headphone replacement cable? John's Destiny Heads-Up Display HDR Panasonic P55VT60 Pirate Eye Patches Quirks & Quarks Podcast Red lights & astronomy VESA mount iMac serial numbers Apple Earnings More graphs from Kieran Healy iPod graph Trucks vs. Cars El Camino Subaru Baja Subaru Brat All-product-lines performance graph (Posted after the show by Kieran Healy) Will the next iPhone be waterproof? Craig Hockenberry on waterproofing in the Apple Watch Post-show: Inductive iPhone charging Sponsored by: Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use promo code ATP10 for 10% off your first order. Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase. Become a member!
153: Larger, Less Portable Pastures
Pre-Show: Winter weather The Long Dark Memory barrier Pirate eye patches Follow-up: Protocol extensions Testing NSURLSession with Swift Studies on blue light and sleep quality National Center for Biotechnology Information (via @technorav) Harvard The shade of blue Casey's iMac Where is the iMac Serial Number? Casey's desk DragThing John on the Dock (redux) iAd App Network Discontinued Overview from Michael Tsai Under the Radar New Apple music apps Garage Band update Music Memos Serenity Caldwell's review Connected #74 iOS limitations vs. powerful Mac hacks Loopback Audio Hijack Canvas Fraser Spiers on how it's recorded & edited Call Recorder for Skype Jason's noise plugin, iZotope RX Audiobus Marco on the expandable MD101LL/A Post-show: Marco jailbrakes two phones batteryLevel Modern Cydia screenshot SBSettings Saltines vs. Wheat Thins TrumpScript Sponsored by: MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10% off for the life of your account. Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code “ATP” for 10% off your first order. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use promo code atp10 for 10% off your first order. Become a member!
152: Daddy Didn't Want the Good Graphics Card
Casey bought an iMac... and you won't believe what happened next. Plex vs. Infuse Mac Power Users on Plex Casey's blog post Follow-up: Swift and default final Mocks C#'s treatment (via @neilcronin) Objective-C's equivalent hack Rust vs. Swift vs. Go MagSafe vs. USB-C UpThere Little Snitch's tweet Crashlytics adds a theory UpThere's Confirmation Apple TV Tech Talk iOS 9.3 WiFi Assist Update f.lux Night Shift PNAS study (PDF) iPads in the classroom Connected with Fraser Speirs Post-show: Wheel of iMacs Sponsored by: Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use promo code ATP15 for 15% off your first order. Blue Apron: A better way to cook. Get your first two meals for free with this link. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code EGGSALAD for 10% off your first purchase. Become a member!
151: The Opposite of Final
Follow-up: UpThere AWS Little Snitch Upthere's response EC2 iPhone 7 Headphone Jack New USB-C peripherals for the MacBook One Griffin "MagSafe" Hyper USB-C Hub CES E3 Swift Code of Conduct linux-kernel mailing list Randi Harper (FreeBSDGirl)'s post Swift proposal for default final Method swizzling Jordan Rose What does Swift mean for Go and Rust? Post-show grab bag: RIP WebObjects? Chevy Bolt Faraday FFZero1 Mechanical "Apple Watch" Space Black Milanese Tag Heuer Connected Flip camera FitBit Blaze Withings Activité Steel Internet of Things Sponsored by: Igloo: An intranet you’ll actually like. Try Igloo for free. Warby Parker: Boutique-quality, vintage-inspired glasses at a revolutionary price. Try up to five pairs at home for free. Audible.com: With over 180,000 audiobooks, you’ll find what you’re looking for. Get a free 30-day trial. Armada Ready Player One Ready Player One on the Incomparable Become a member!
150: A Mac Pro in Every Pot
Follow-up: Foliage in Apple stores Casey gets a new Apple TV Plex Harmy's Despecialized Editions Casey gets a new RetinaPad Mini Apple SIM Steven Troughton-Smith making windows on iOS Cintiq What plausible/realistic things are we hoping for in 2016? Marco — Apple TV: get better Nilay Patel's piece at The Verge O'Reilly Polar Bear Book Guy English Casey — App Store: get better John — Mac Pro: get newer ...and a new 5K Cinema Display Marco — Finish the Retina transition Casey — Swift on the server Taylor Perfect John — New filesystem (🔔) Marco — Apple Watch: get better Casey's recent re-review The Upgradies Casey — Unification of the package management Swift package manager CocoaPods Carthage John — Apple Pencil for non-Pro iPads Marco — iPad Pro: get better ...and an Instagram app for iPad Bonus: iPhone 7 wishes More milliamp hours in the battery More secure feeling in the hand Casey — iPhone battery: get better John — OLED screens in iPhones Bonus: non-curved OLED TVs with best-in-class picture quality Bonus: TV stations: stop with the logo bugs Marco — Apple: show more focus John — squash more bugs Post-show: Fantasy Macs John G4 review Sponsored by: Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated. Casper: A mattress with just the right sink, just the right bounce, for better nights and brighter days. Use code ATP for $50 off. Blue Apron: A better way to cook. Get your first two meals for free with this link. Become a member!
149: Everyone's on Vacation
Casey's reconciled differences Three truths and a lie Marco experiments with his website Second Crack CentOS Under the Radar Chrome vs. Safari on the desktop Phil Schiller takes over the App Store Ben Thompson's take (Stratechery members only) Apache Mesos Les Moonves CBS/60 Minutes feature on Apple Riccio's quote John Gruber and Phil Schiller on The Talk Show Upthere Bertrand Serlet Cloud to Butt Post-show: Neutral: Marco has ordered a Tesla The great bagel dispute Sponsored by: Linode: Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $10/month. Get a $10 credit with code ACCIDENTALPODCAST10. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use promo code ATP15 for 15% off your first order. Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase. Become a member!
148: Your Feelings Are Real
Follow-up: Green shifting (see also) Continuous release schedules Jeff Atwood's Infinite Version iPhone 7 battery theories 4-inch iPhone 6S predictions Marco's SOLEMEMO battery case Marco's slim battery brick Negativity about Apple Apple TV App Store challenges Ctrl-Walt-Delete: A Cycle of Despair BMW X6M Swift Open Sourcing The Talk Show #139 Chris Lattner's tongue-in-cheek tweet First non-Lattner commit Lattner's reply Apache 2 License patent grant Package manager Code owners Homebrew Max Howell's snarky tweet swift-evolution Erica Sadun's blog Mailing list Links to tweets in Swift source (via Danny Greg) Post-show Neutral: Casey drives a Tesla Model S Sponsored by: Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code “ATP” for 10% off your first purchase. MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10% off for the life of your account. Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get 20% off with this link. Become a member!
147: Here I Am, I'm a Battery
Follow-up: The iPhone Lightning Dock exists Benefits of Lightning headphones USB Type C supports analog audio Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader Remote.app for iOS now works with the new Apple TV Swift/Foundation bridging Apple iPhone 6S battery case Porsche Panamera Joanna Stern's Review Anker Ultra Slim Apple "No" video Marco's preferred battery brick "Flower" iMac G4 Chin-less battery case Casey's Lenmar battery case Apple updated all of their OSes State of our Watch usage What the future may bring for Watch apps Post-show: Three nerds talk about fashion... again. We're sorry. Timex Weekender Sponsored by: Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code “ATP” for 10% off your first order. Casper: A mattress with just the right sink, just the right bounce, for better nights and brighter days. Use code ATP for $50 off. Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated. Become a member!
146: Control + Money + Smallness
Follow-up: iMacs and IR ports mDNSResponder gets fixed by a phone call to Tim Cook German video Vint Cerf DARPA TCP/IP IETF Stuart Cheshire iPhone 7 rumored to drop the headphone jack Existing Lightning-equipped headphones Slimmed-down headphone jack Lightning Digital AV Adapter Casey's Bluetooth headphones Marco's Bluetooth headphones Swift goes open-source Copland 2010 LLVM Clang Apple on Github Traditional Apple open source Swift commit graph First Swift commit Material #23 with Matías Duarte The Talk Show Live at WWDC 2015 with Phil Schiller Swift 3.0 plans Removing NS prefix Under the Radar #2 - Time for Swift Ars Technica talks with Craig Federighi The Next Web talks with Craig Federighi Swift Issue Tracker GPL trolls Post-show: John had a cloudy day. Special extended edition of the Siracusa Toaster song by Jonathan Mann, who also wrote our ending theme song. Hire him to make a song for you, a friend, or a loved one this holiday season! Sponsored by: Cards Against Humanity: A free party game for horrible people. Toaster #1 Toaster #2 The Sweet Home's toaster oven review Toaster review compendium Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase. Warby Parker: Boutique-quality, vintage-inspired eyewear at a revolutionary price. Become a member!
145: Lasers and Pew-Pew and Space Aliens
Pre-show / Follow-out‡: John Siracusa Paper Doll John riding on Merlin's back John on top of Hypercritical Mountain Marco's version of John... plus a bowtie Top Four on Take-Out Food Roanoke Colony Extracurriculars: Reconcilable Differences Top Four Robot or Not The Incomparable Casey's guest spot Analog(ue) Follow-up: iPad Pro and wide-gamut displays iMac insomnia What 2015 tech are we thankful for? John gets hypercritical about Thanksgiving mDNSResponder (not discoveryd) Functional High Ground Marco's follow-up post Craig Hockenberry on discoveryd (strong language) Live Photos & 4K Video Canon 5D Mark II Sony A7R II If you get that, you want this lens, and probably this one too. Apple Photos Google Photos Picturelife Lightroom Podcasting Under the Radar Overcast Olympus O-MD E-M10 Casey's review Big SSDs Slack Lightning Digital AV Adapter Destiny Quake III Arena Unreal Tournament 2004 Counter-Strike Apple Watch Post-show bonus items: Apple Pencil Tesla ‡: Still not Siracusa-approved Sponsored by: Bushel: Simple Apple device management and protection for your workplace. Designed to make the complex tasks simple so you can focus on your business. Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off with this link. Squarespace: Start here, go anywhere. Use promo code ATP for 10% off your first purchase. Become a member!
144: Digital Schmear
Follow-up: Apple TV vs. game consoles Mac App Store certificate problems Apple's Apology Sparkle Michael Tsai: No One Minding The Store Space Gremlin Daisy Disk Twitterrific iPad Pro, featuring special guest Tiffany Arment Smart Cover Pencil Back to Work #247 Tiff's Signature Adobe Sketch Procreate Tayasui Sketches DisplayMate on iPad display quality USB3 speeds in the Lightning connector Post-show: Mrs. Siracusa's new iMac 5K Sponsored by: Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off with this link. MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10% off for the life of your account. Squarespace: Start here, go anywhere. Use promo code ATP for 10% off your first purchase. Become a member!
143: Capital F, Capital C
Follow-up: Menu button snap-back on the Apple TV remote John's children react to the remote Marco and Apple TV gaming Badland Limbo World of Goo Provenance f.lux iPad Pro Steve Streza's latency video Matt Panzarino's no-latency video Microsoft touch latency demo video WWDC session Andy Ihnatko's dream Multitasking UI paradigms OpenDoc Post-show: Neutral Casey's fender damage Sponsored by: MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10% off for the life of your account. lynda.com: Learn at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials. Free 10-day trial. Casper: A mattress with just the right sink, just the right bounce, for better nights and brighter days. Use code ATP for $50 off. Become a member!
142: Hateful Game of Frogger
Follow-out*: Marco and _David Smith's new show, Under the Radar Follow-up: Facebook's ineptitude Spotlight indexing for NAS drives Why do Google Play Music and Stitcher re-host podcasts? CPM Apple TV S/PDIF The Talk Show #134 Upgrade #61 Konami Code John's Wii U Setup Woes Gaming Crossy Road Alto's Adventure Zaxxon Steelseries Nimbus Polygon on Apple TV games Oceanhorn Provenance Plex Post show: Follow-up on TV audio and sound bars Casey reads the manual for Marco's car Sponsored by: Cards Against Humanity: A free party game for horrible people. This week's toaster Other reviews Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase. Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated. * This use of the term "follow-out" has not been approved by John Siracusa and does not constitute an endorsement of the phrase. Become a member!
141: Chain-Link-Fenced Garden
Apple TV and home theater Apple's guide to choosing a capacity Optical splitter from HDMI Marco doesn't know what a "sound bar" is Follow-up: 5400 RPM benchmarks, charts Mac GPUs, heat, and noise 2015 5K iMac overheats? Dynamic range compression in the new AppleTV? Monitor height and VESA-mounting Facebook statement on app battery usage John's Star Wars tickets Apple's earnings call Benedict Evans' chart: iPad vs. laptops Large-storage needs at home: NAS, Drobo, or external hard drives? Upgrade #60 DS1813+ DS1815+ ATTO iSCSI Initiator OWC ThunderBay 4 mini MailDrop Limits John on RAID in 2005 Google Play Music adds podcasts Diff'rent Strokes Libsyn interviews Google Play Music manager about podcast feature Post-show: Apple TV reviews Past guest Christina Warren at Mashable Walt Mossberg Sponsored by: Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use promo code ATP15 for 15% off your first order. MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10% off for the life of your account. Squarespace: Start here, go anywhere. Use promo code ATP for 10% off your first purchase. Become a member!
140: Harpooned a Turtle
John tries to buy Star Wars tickets Follow-up: Chipworks on the A9s (PDF) Consumer Reports on battery life Fusion Drives Magic Trackpad to augment rather than replace Is the Magic Trackpad 2 too expensive? Xbox One Elite iMac revisited Then and Now Accessories without Bluetooth Apple's balance of priorities: use vs. looks vs. profit Elevation Stand Leander Kahney's Ive book 20th Anniversary Mac Facebook battery usage Post-show: Perl 6 Sponsored by: Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off with this link. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use promo code ATP15 for 15% off your first order. Squarespace: Start here, go anywhere. Use promo code ATP for 10% off your first purchase. Become a member!