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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

92: You Don’t Know My Pants Nov 19, 2014

Show notes

Follow-up:
- Inside info on why iWork seems so screwed up
- More on open source .NET, from @Scionwest
  - 1
  - 2
  - 3
  - 4
  - Discourse (source)
- Germany's equivalent of Consumer Reports tests the bendiness of the new iPhones (link in German)
Nokia's new tablet features the USB Type C connector
WatchKit
Post-show:
- John's iPhone activation woes
  - SIM removal tool
- John critiques cutting-edge apps:
  - Instagram
  - Vine
  - YouTube

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91: Press Agree to Drive Nov 14, 2014

Show notes

Twitter's absurd ~~mission~~ strategy statement
- Demotivational Poster
- Should we use a carousel?
Follow-up:
- More on app bundles
- Does iWork help Apple sell hardware?
- RiMac GPUs are throttled?
  - It's possible to get hot even in OS X
  - Gaming benchmarks
  - More from Ars
  - iStat Menus
- Why TRIM isn't widely supported on OS X
- iPhone 6 vs. 6 Plus sales (via @_ryanbrodie)
  - More from Localytics
Overcast 1.1
- CarPlay
- Marco's testing setup
- Pioneer SPH-DA120
- MPPlayableContentManager
- We covered in-car user interfaces before
Microsoft open-sources more of .NET
- More from Ars
- More from Miguel de Icaza
  - Xamarin
- RyuJIT
- Hadouken
- Clang
- LLVM
- .NET on Github
- Darwin
- KHTML
- WebKit
- CLR
- TCL
- GNUstep
- Examples of software established in Linux
  - Wireshark
  - Audacity
  - Adium (or, really, Pidgin)
  - git
  - Selenium
  - phpBB
- Titanium
The good, the bad, and the ugly of source control
- DVD-RAM and DVD+RW
  - Turns out Marco's "DVD-RAM" emoji (💽) is really a Minidisc, which was moderately popular in Japan.
- Perforce
- SVN
- CVS
- Mercurial
- Betamax
Post-show
- Baby Update
  - The Analog(ue)-ATP Baby Treaty (@31:00)
  - Casey's fancy camera
  - Scammy in-hospital newborn photography
    - EXIF
    - Tiffany Arment Photography

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90: Speculative Abandonware Nov 07, 2014

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Follow-up:
- Declan night one
- It's Andy Samberg that is part of Lonely Island, not "Adam Sandberg".
  Many of the videos below contain explicit lyrics.
- App store prevents too-expensive bundle purchases (via @walruscp)
- TRIM support and John's SSD
  - Trim Enabler and a related Yosemite FAQ
  - AHCI
  - Ars on the rise of SSDs
  - SandForce
- Source list opacity in Yosemite (1 2)
  - This was also covered on John's recent appearance on The Talk Show
  - Ancient GameCube controllers in modern times
Microsoft Band
- _David Smith's thoughts on his blog and podcast
- Exploded diagram
- Ars Review
- Nice summary by Manton Reece
- WebOS
- Courier
- Kin
- Surface product placement goes wrong
  - House, M.D.
  - Parks and Recreation
iWork file-format support
- InfoWorld article
- iWeb
- Tower of Babel
- iLife
- ADA
Post-show:
- Wii U Pro Controller versus GameCube Controller
- John has a surprise
- iPhone 6/6 Plus sales ratio
- Tweetie
- UIRefreshControl
- RiMac First Impressions
  - Monaco
  - Inconsolata
  - Menlo
  - Handbrake

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89: DeLorean + McLaren Nov 02, 2014

Show notes

Casey's new arrival
- Some background
- The Jackal
Follow-Up:
- Marco's Retina iMacs may be on a boat
- The Talk Show FU: the new iMac displays are laminated
- FCC sues AT&T for heavy throttling of their "unlimited" plan
- ECC RAM is actually worth it
- Marco's intentions for his Mac Pro
  - iFixIt's Teardown of the iMac with Retina 5K Display
  - _David Smith's screenshot of Xcode and iOS Simulator
  - Fan noise thoughts and recording
- Casey has used Apple Pay
- More on App Store bundles as upgrade pricing
  - Unread's move to Supertop
- Continuity hardware-requirements Knowledge Base entries (via @MCRascasse)
  - Get help using Continuity with iOS 8
    - Connect your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac using Continuity
- Restricting apps from A5 and A6 devices by requiring Metal (via @lmarburger)
- GamerGate
Tim Cook announces he is gay
Post-show:
- Microsoft Band, extremely briefly
- John's new arrival
  - Disk Inventory X
  - John's selection
- Casey's newfound picture-taking modus operandi, and tips from Marco
  - Casey's camera
  - Shawn Blanc's Review
  - Casey's quick thoughts
  - Casey's wedding pictures vs. baby pictures
  - Bokeh
  - John makes a shocking confession
  - Neven and Christa Mrgan
  - Baby Sandwich

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88: Standing on Opposite Sides of the Gym Oct 24, 2014

Show notes

Follow-up:
- SMS Relay doesn't require Bluetooth Low Energy (Tweet by @Jury)
- Is a grandfathered AT&T unlimited-data plan worth keeping?
- Dropbox versus iCloud Drive versus OneDrive
  - Dropbox document picker
- Bluetooth mesh networking
Twitter's developer conference
Yosemite Review recap, one week on.
- Does anyone really care about the Mac anymore?
- iMore's iOS 8 Review
Yosemite first thoughts
- Casey uses GitHub's Atom text editor
- Aero Glass
- Chromatic aberration
- Super close-up of close button
- Early OS X transparency
Apple Pay
- Target Cartwheel
- Target reveals daughter's pregnancy
iMac with Retina 5K display
Post-show:
- John is iPhoneless again, but for how long?
- More on GamerGate
  - New York Magazine article by Jesse Singal
  - Felicia Day posts on GamerGate
  - Doxing
  - No true Scotsman
  - Deadspin summary
  - Brands and GamerGate
  - Twitter statistics
  - Designing social systems to reduce abuse vectors and incentives
  - Marco and The Wirecutter
  - Isla Vista Shooting (more)
  - Perks of verified Twitter accounts
  - Kirby Ferguson
    - This is Not a Conspiracy Theory
    - Everything is a Remix

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87: Not an Accurate Representation of My Mousing Skills Oct 18, 2014

Show notes

Follow-up:
- GameCube controllers only work with Super Smash Brothers
Apple's event: Yosemite, iPad Air 2, Retina iMac
- Unfunny funny skits
- Retconned Retina iPad Mini
- The A5 lives on for another year or two
- Apple's ASP strategy tax (John, previously)
- The new iPads
- John's iOS device plans
- Authy two-factor auth app
- iMac Retina 5K
  - Marco on 5K iMac vs. Mac Pro
  - Developing Perspective
John's Review
- Buy the iBook!
- Buy the Kindle eBook
- Buy Ars Premier to get all the things
- About John's review
- xScope
- Lattner's tweet
- Mike Ash's Friday Q&A

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86: Moving the Party to the Bar Down the Block Oct 08, 2014

Show notes

Trends in social networks
- App.net Broadcast
- Ello (@marcoarment, @caseyliss, @johnsiracusa, @atpfm)
- Cupcake
- The Talk Show #74: Glenn Fleishmann explains Bitcoin
Follow-up:
- iPhone 6 Plus Scaling (mostly thanks to Hendrik's research)
- More on the bendy iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
  - Consumer Reports
  - Uri Gellar
Continued iPhone 6 impressions
Post-show:
- More on the iPhones 6 screens
- Gamecube controllers

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85: The Unexpected Hard Part Oct 03, 2014

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Follow-Up:
- John defends his derision about the load-bearing finger
  - Thumb commercial
Accidental Build and Analyze about iOS 8 size classes and adaptive UI
- Write-up by Justin Williams (the "???" square in the grid is the iPhone 6 Plus in landscape)
- iPad resizable-apps video by Steven Troughton-Smith
Designing Applications
- Vesper
- Unread
Continued Follow-Up:
- NFC around the world
- iPhone 6+ scaling
- Bendy iPhones 6
  - Consumer Reports bends phones
  - Anecdotal evidence
- iPod Touch people
- Marquetry (via @sjsyrek)
- Proprietary eponym
Jonathan Mann's Harry Potter EP on Kickstarter
Post-show Follow-Up:
- The Invisible Spreadsheet
- Update on John's review
- Slippery iPhones 6 and cases

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84: The Load-Bearing Finger Sep 26, 2014

Show notes

Follow-Up:
- Jason Snell on iPhone 6 CPUs
- Upgradeable Apple Watches
  - Apple S1
- How do you sell a $10,000+ watch in an Apple Store?
- Apple Watch Edition's special box
- Apple Pay and banking
- The hidden meanings of Apple "tv"/"WATCH" text styling
- Trade names and the NFL
- If Steve were alive...
  - Ben Thompson's take
Tim Cook's Charlie Rose interview
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Apple's diversity report
iPhone 6/6+ impressions
Post-show:
- iPhone 6 Plus bending video (follow-up with more phones, Galaxy Note 3)

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83: Entering the iTouch Phase of My Life Sep 18, 2014

Show notes

Pre-Show: Inexpensive tablets
Follow-up:
- More on Retina displays for the Mac
  - Thunderbolt 2, Thunderbolt 3, and Skylake
- iPhones 6 and 6 Plus
  - Optical image stabilization
  - Matt Panzarino's awesome iPhones review
  - Barefeats benchmark
  - Marco teaches Casey about photography
- Android Wear versus Galaxy Gear
- Apple's and Google's rates on payments
  - Quora article
  - Financial Times
- Whether we're blind to Android doing things first
  - ATP #1
- Apple Watch's potential pricing
  - Solid gold cases
  - Veblen goods
  - Gruber's analysis
  - Buying experience
    - Scott McNulty's tweet
    - Apple Store in Grand Central Terminal
  - Cases, fashion, and personalization
  - Closeup of Apple Watch Sport
  - Stickers commercial
  - Offline features
  - Send text messages in languages with pictographic/Logogram alphabets
    - Graffiti
  - Battery indicator
    - Charging Citizen Eco Drive watches
Post-show:

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