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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

192: Hello Again Again Oct 21, 2016

Show notes

Follow-up on camera dust: Tips from the Top Floor #748: Bust the Dust (Overcast link)
October 27th Apple Event
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- Marco's camera may affect his laptop choices
- Prompt

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191: The Failure Mode of a Train Oct 13, 2016

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Dealing with DNS trouble
- Hover outage
- DDoS
Follow-up:
- Steve Troughton-Smith poll on iCloud files
- Casey's headphones update
Greg Koenig on the ceramic iPhone
Apple and Dash developer-account termination
Dropbox shenanigans
- Dropbox help center
- Alleged engineer's comments
- Gordian Knot
- Paths in the Grass
- FSEvents
- Alternatives
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Marco is a'waffling
- Canon 5D Mark IV
- Marco's lenses mentioned:
- Modern giant, heavy, expensive, but awesome lenses (no experience with them):
  - Canon 35mm f/1.4 L II
  - Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L II
- Leica Q
- Casey's camera setup
- John's Sony a6300

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190: The Girl Who Never Came Over Oct 06, 2016

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Follow-up:
- Casey and John's bet
- Compu-blur and Stephen Hackett's brother
- Ceramic iPhone 8??
  - Ceramic Apple Watch Edition booklet
  - Redesigned iPhone 7 Video
Interchangeable-lens camera contamination
Which Bluetooth headphones to buy?
Google Pixel phones
Home automation hubs
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Workplace computer-hardware woes
- Dell 24" 4K
- LG 24" 4K

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189: The Museum of Pristine Apple Hardware Sep 29, 2016

Show notes

Follow-up:
- OWC iMac RAM update
- Headphone jack remote issue: solved!
- Assistive Touch in East Asia
- iCloud backups on iOS 10 now include passwords?
- Bluetooth and volume control (PDF)
  - AVRCP
Why are there three audio chips in the iPhone 7? (You won't believe what we found! The full story at 11.)
McLaren, technology, F1, and the F1
- John is hypercritical, but is he a hypocrite?
macOS Sierra
iPhone 7 Plus "Fauxkeh" Portrait Mode
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Museums and pocket policies

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188: $850 Fidget Cube Sep 22, 2016

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Follow-up:
- "Far East" → "East Asia"
- The Casey/John Bet
  - Luke Brewster
  - Henrik Cednert
- Assistive Touch and East Asia
Scott O'Reilly discovers a Lightning → Headphone adapter quirk
- Demonstration video
- Fix is forthcoming
There is a DAC in the headphone adapter
Three amplifiers in the iPhones 7?
Jet Black iPhone 7
- John on worn iPhones looking like the Millennium Falcon
- Worn original iPhone
- Designed Deterioration
- Fingerprints
- Poor Christina Warren 😢
- John on designing electronics for wear and tear
  - Hypercritical #5 (starting at 37:05)
  - Hypercritical #74 (starting at 1:46:04)
  - Hypercritical #86 (starting at 28:00)
Transcoding and Bluetooth headphones
- Marc Edwards
Our new phones
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- AirPods vs. IEMs
- Apple and McLaren
  - Rebuttal
  - Not Maclaren
  - Apex
- Apple "refocusing" the car project?

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187: Putting Plastic on Your Couches Sep 15, 2016

Show notes

Home button habits
- New iOS 10 home button behavior
  - Settings → General → Accessibility → Home Button
- Widespread home-button conservation
The iPhone 7 Smart Battery Case is larger than the 6's
Apple iPhone 7 Leather Case's side buttons
Are the Lightning EarPods digital?
- DAC
- Lightning → Headphone Jack Adapter
AirPods
- Controls
- AirPods use Bluetooth
Bluetooth, codecs, and audio quality
- MP3
- AAC
- FLAC
- AptX
- A2DP
- ALAC
How would Steve Jobs pitch the AirPods?
iPhones 7 Cameras
- Matthew Panzarino's review
- AVCaptureDeviceType (see builtInDuoCamera)
- f-number
- EXIF
- Schiller on sensor size on Twitter
- Schiller on sensor size via email
- Ben McCarthy on manual controls
- Xbox Kinect
- Noise reduction
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- What did we order?
- A special John Siracusa rant

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186: Jony Ive Has a Lot of White Pants Sep 08, 2016

Show notes

Apple's September 2016 Event
Tim Cook & James Corden do Carpool Karaoke
iWork Updates
Mario Run (App Store Link)
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Only one IAP
Apple Watch Series 2
- Series 1
- Apple Watch Edition
- Interactive Gallery
- Ceramic watches
- Space Black Stainless Steel with Link Bracelet
- Slim d'Hermès
- Apple Watch Nike+
- Apple Watch Hermès
iPhone 7
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Marco downsizes while he upsizes

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185: The Delaware of Europe Sep 03, 2016

Show notes

Pre-show:
- 🌊 The beach 🏖
- Laptop sizes and relative weight savings (Marco's tweet)
Casey's iMac RAM update
Hello Internet's vinyl episode
- Apple 1984 commercial
- StuffIt Expander
- OS/2 Warp
- Windows vs. OS X
Feedback on Marco's Boot Camp woes
- Inside is on the PS4 now
- John, Tiff, and others talk about Inside on The Incomparable
App Store Improvements
John's childhood artwork
- 🐢
- 🦄
- 👧
- ⛰
- 👨
- 🐲
- ⚔
- Original Hypercritical post
New iCloud 2TB storage option
Apple's EU tax problems
- Vox article
- Tim Cook's letter
September 7th Apple Event
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann

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184: Procedural Marriage Mistakes Aug 24, 2016

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Twitter quality filter for everyone
John buys a camera
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

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183: I Filed a Radar Aug 17, 2016

Show notes

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?

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