Accidental Tech Podcast

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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

162: iPhone Sorry Erin Mar 25, 2016

Show notes

Follow-up:
- How many iPad and Mac users also carry iPhones?
- Why not use CloudKit or BackBlaze B2 for Overcast file uploads?
- Car break-ins via keyless entry amplifiers
Apple's "Loop You In" Event
- Sad times for the Mac
  - Intel Skylake
  - Oculus founder's comments
- 40 Years in 40 Seconds Recap
- FBI stops hassling Apple (for now)
- Apple and the Environment
- ResearchKit & CareKit
  - Connected #83: It Looked Like a Liam
- Apple Watch bands
- Apple TV
  - Plex
  - Infuse
- iPhone SE
  - iPhone Comparison
- iPad Pro 9.7"
  - 2GB RAM 😭
  - Camera Adapter
    - Jason Snell on using microphones
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- Embedded Apple SIM
  - Casey on the Apple SIM
- Schiller's dig on old hardware

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161: Dark Mode Is Your Hat Mar 18, 2016

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Why don't we have cellular MacBooks?
Could Photos.app's "UXKit" become AppKit's successor on the Mac?
- Jason Snell
- Brent Simmons
  - Chameleon
Marco might be a Mac developer shortly
Overcast 2.5 released
- Amazon S3
- Calculator Construction Set
Apple Event on March 21
- Intel Skylake
- Black plastic MacBook
- NATO-style watch straps (real NATO)
- Deployant clasps
Post-show: John suffers a loss

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160: Be Careful Out There Mar 10, 2016

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Follow-up:
- SQL Server on Linux
- TV Mounts
  - Dynamic Mounting
  - Mantel Mount
Marco's surprising product review
Marketing the next 9.7-inch iPad
Transmission's ransomware infection
- Gatekeeper
The future of Mac OS X
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: John doesn't go to Las Vegas.

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159: A Typo On Your Brake Pads Mar 03, 2016

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Pre-show: The Ferrari Siracusa (really)
- Ruf
- Dinan
- BMW 1M
- Cobb
Follow-up: Mono vs. Xamarin
Apple's self-blacklisted ethernet driver
- Disk Utility typos
- Disk Utility and SuperDuper
John can't resist a history lesson about filesystems (🛎)
- MFS
- HFS
- HFS+
- btrfs
John's quest for disc-less BluRay movies
- Plex
  - Casey's reasons to use Plex
  - Casey's Plex tips
- MakeMKV
- Don Melton's scripts
- Raspberry Pi
- nVidia Shield
- 24 fps test video - Be sure to download the original file. (Look for the arrow icon at the top of the page.)
- John's Fill Your TV article
Theme song by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: John's tips for TV bliss

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158: You Can’t Outlaw Math Feb 25, 2016

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Pre-show: Driving John's cold over to Craig's house
- The Talk Show interview with Craig Federighi and Eddy Cue
Follow-up:
- Figma is in the browser
- Comic Sans was created for Microsoft Bob
Microsoft Buys Xamarin
- Project Islandwood
- Ximian
Apple and the FBI
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: #mykewasvictorious
- Cortex #22 & #23

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157: As Many People in the Sandbox as Possible Feb 17, 2016

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Follow-up:
- iPad signatures
- Bluetooth-headphone video latency
Potential Apple Car ECU
- Wind River
  - Wind River in space
Adobe bug deletes Backblaze folder
- Creative Cloud
Sandboxing on the Mac
Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi on The Talk Show
Figma's Vector Networks
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann

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156: A Mac on Fire Feb 12, 2016

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Follow-up:
- Previous-episode feedback and constructive criticism
- Einstein's quote
- Photos.app crop/aspect behavior theories
  - Keyboard shortcuts
Bluetoot (©MerlinCo 2011) headphone dongle concept
- TDK Boombox
- AGPtek Bluetooth to headphone converter
  - Modern equivalent
- Sennheiser MM 400-X, Marco's pick for portable Bluetooth podcast listening
- Arctic P311, Casey's pick for inexpensive Bluetooth headphones
Casey's new job
- The Life, by John Gruber
- Memberwise Initialization in Swift
Casey briefly tries using an iPad full-time
- PDFPen
- Myke on the iPad Pro
Firewatch
- Campo Santo
- Panic
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Steam

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155: Edit, Crop, Aspect, Original Feb 05, 2016

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Follow-up:
- Serial numbers on serviced Mac logic boards
- Long-distance wireless charging
  - Artemis
- Shared iPad developer guidelines
Walt Mossberg discovers the functional high ground
- Jim Dalrymple weighs in
- John Gruber weighs in
Apple app design
- Marco's piece from last year
Photos.app UI design
- Microsoft Word toolbars
Apple TV UI design
Why are we so critical of Apple?
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post show: The state of Apple hardware

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154: A Rich Toddler’s Toy Jan 29, 2016

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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
- 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

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153: Larger, Less Portable Pastures Jan 22, 2016

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Pre-Show: Winter weather
Follow-up:
- Protocol extensions
- Testing NSURLSession with Swift
- Studies on blue light and sleep quality
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
iOS limitations vs. powerful Mac hacks
Post-show:
- Marco jailbrakes two phones
- Saltines vs. Wheat Thins
- TrumpScript

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