Accidental Tech Podcast

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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Latest Episodes:

222: As Thin as Humans Will Tolerate May 18, 2017

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Follow up: Revisiting the quiz from last episode
MP3 is dead; long live MP3
iPad Mini is dead?
MacBooks and MacBook Pros are alive?
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- Apple Park
- MIT Stata Center

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221: Personal Body Chemistry May 11, 2017

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Follow up:
- The politics in the last episode
- Rear Touch ID and prototypes
- Dirty laptop fabric
- Are people being backed into liking touchscreen laptops?
- WikiTribune
  - ...is based on Wordpress and not maintained by Wikimedia
  - ...already has a competitor called Wikinews
Amazon Echo Show
Brief Quiz
Dropping Dropbox
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Marco and Casey can't shut up about the Switch and Mario Kart

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220: Executive Box Lunch May 04, 2017

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Follow up: Moscone food research by Daniel Jalkut
More on the potential rear Touch ID
- Samsung Galaxy S8
- Assistive Touch
- Turning off Haptics:
  Settings → Sounds & Haptics → System Haptics
WikiTribune
Basic humanity
Amazon Echo Look
- Download #1: Wardrobe Philosophy
Microsoft Surface Laptop
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Casey really loves his new copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Mario Kart over LAN

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219: Million Dollar Lunch Apr 28, 2017

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Follow up:
- APFS compression?
- WWDC lunches are probably about $40 each (via David Carlton)
- Connected #139 where Casey discusses Plex
Touch ID moving to the back?
- Revisiting the iPhone 7 Taptic home button
- Touch ID is capacitive
Overcast improvements
- M4A chapter support
- Forecast
- Watch support 1 & 2
- Apple Design Awards
Uber is über-gross
- IOKit
- UIDevice
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: John travels to 🇬🇧

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218: MagSafe Cups of Water Apr 19, 2017

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Follow up:
- APFS iOS app updates hit the app store
- Marco's Overcast hacks
  - Podlove Simple Chapters
- APFS free space
- Nvidia coming back to the Mac
- Kieran Healy's thoughts regarding Marco's comments about schedules
- Clips gets special treatment in the app store
- T-Shirts! will be available until April 26.
  - We know what the site says. Trust us.
  - Jet Black considerations
    - Example Jet Black
  - Inverted Jenny
Apple USB-C MagSafe patent
- Xbox breakaway cable
Beginning of the end for iTunes?
John's evaluation of Nintendo today
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: WWDC lunches
- Casey loves Odwalla... a lot. Really.

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217: Apology Mac Pro Apr 12, 2017

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Follow up:
- Mac Pro transcript posted
- Workflow on ice
- APFS and free space
- T-Shirt Update
Clips
Mac Pro
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- Marco convinces himself Casey owes him $5
- Managing Mac Pro expectations
- Apple speed bumps
- MacRumors Buyer's Guide

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216: Thermal Corner Apr 05, 2017

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Follow up:
- APFS file name encoding
- WWDC sitrep
RIP Jason Seifer
The Mac Pro
The new iMac... Pro?
- Project Ara
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- We adjudicate a bet
- T-Shirts are for sale! until 26 April

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215: Pots Are Made to Be Broken Mar 30, 2017

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Follow up:
- APFS on iOS
  - Settings → General → Storage & iCloud Usage → Manage Storage
  - Oddities with file names
- Ahoy, Telephone!
- Naked-er Robotic Core
Marco eats waffles
- Aerial
MacBook One vs. MacBook Adorable
- Hello Internet, Cortex
WWDC
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Tiff joins us to talk Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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214: Christmas Phone Mar 23, 2017

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Follow-up:
- Wii U display lag from Steven Impson
- Zelda heads-up-display woes
- Intel X99 high-end desktop options
- Reasons for delaying the Mac Pro
- Americans are cheap jerks
Marco needs a new pair of shoelaces
- Analog(ue) #9: My Shoes Are a Bit Dusty
- Úll
Apple executive diversity shareholder vote
Apple buys Workflow
- Workflow on the App Store
- Workflow removes Chrome
- Workflow change log (see 1.7.3)
- x-callback-url
New Apple products
- Red iPhone 7
  - Six Colors
  - Branding in China
- New iPhone SE storage sizes
- New 9.7" iPad
  - Six Colors
  - Stephen Hackett on marketing
- New Watch bands
- Clips iOS App
  - Press release
  - Wired
- What was missing
  - Gruber on the 10" iPad
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: APFS news

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213: Siri in a Can Mar 16, 2017

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Pre-show: A friendly bet for January 1, 2018
Follow up:
- Windows on iPad (for example, Blackboard)
- Steve Troughton-Smith's Floating Keyboard Playground
  - Writeup from 9to5mac
- Apple in Education
Apple's HomeKit Promo Website & Video
- Scott McNulty's Tweet
YouTube TV (Verge Writeup)
Intel goes 14nm again
AMD Ryzen
Xeon Gold
Tim Cook's tease at the shareholders meeting
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Initital thoughts on the Nintendo Switch

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