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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

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32: It Doesn’t Bother Me Sep 27, 2013

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Casey's exclusive new iPhone 5S.
Low stock levels of the gold 5S and Apple's potential motivations.
How good the iPhone 5 (and therefore the 5C) still is today.
John's review of iOS 7.
Locking your kitchen.
Marco's upcoming podcast app, Overcast, as announced at XOXO 2013, and why he preannounced it.
The parallels between Portland and the Hofbräuhaus.
John's logarithmic-scrubber idea. (and Marco's logarithmic calendar)
Dr. Drang on parallax.
Post-show Neutral: the F80 M3/M4 specs.

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31: Swimming In 16 GB Gold Sep 19, 2013

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Casey goes to an Apple Store.
FU on SnappyCam, Synology and ZFS, and the likelihood of a new Mac filesystem.
The 16/32/64 GB iPhone capacities may be overstaying their welcome.
Each host's planned iPhone upgrades.
How to get an iPhone on launch day.
Long Island Lexus trim.
Who's fabbing the A7? Intel? Probably not.
iOS 7 adoption stats so far from Mixpanel and _DavidSmith.

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30: Full Frontal Thumb Sep 13, 2013

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iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s.
The possible Sherlocking of SnappyCam and the 5s' two-tone flash in practice.
AnandTech's Touch ID hands-on video.
Economics of iPhone cases.
64-bit in practice.
Speculation on what the M7 does and its potential.
White iOS devices.
Apple secrecy.
After-show: "non" vs. "hon" and the Micro-USB 3.0 connector.

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29: Computerized Garden Gnome Sep 06, 2013

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John's Mavericks review progress.
iPhone event predictions.
Design and security tradeoffs of a theoretical iPhone fingerprint lock.
iPhone 5S colors.
Will the 5C be the mainstream, best-selling model?
Cell towers near rich people.
The Apple TV shipment rumor.
Tim Cook's "new product categories" statement earlier this year: What might that be that could plausibly come this fall "and into 2014"?
Our Synology experiences and disk-layout strategies so far.
The OmniKeyMaster Mac App Store saga.
Microsoft and Nokia: Stratechery 1, Stratechery 2, Asymco: Who's buying whom?

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28: The Pit Of Irrelevance Aug 30, 2013

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Follow-up: Time Capsule vs. Siracusa. Casey was right!
The state of Microsoft: How much was Ballmer's fault?
Ben Thompson on Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft's enterprise business.
Should Microsoft pull an IBM and/or spin off its consumer business?
What could Microsoft do to regain momentum and marketshare in phones and tablets?
John on the Nintendo 2DS announcement. (Side-by-side with 3DS, 3DS XL, the Kid Icarus: Uprising stand).
After-show: Jeff Atwood's CODE Keyboard, Truly-Ergonomic, and Marco's initial thoughts on the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop keyboard vs. the Kinesis Freestyle 2 for Mac and the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000.

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27: Overflow Gallery In The Bathroom Aug 23, 2013

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Querying Florida.
Photo storage follow-up: whether people even want long-term photo storage anymore, using web services as backups, and Ogg-encoded tinfoil hattery.
The Time Capsule's tough sell.
Casey's helpful fans.
IFTTT and Twitter.
The gold/"champagne" iPhone, not getting a larger iPhone this year, and the future of the Lightning connector.
The new TiVo.
After-show: John's ebook-testing setup, the awful Kindle Previewer, and technical ebook woes. (See also: Serenity Caldwell at Cingleton 2012.)
Plus, a very special after-after-show Neutral loosely about the M4.

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26: Three Phones Ago Aug 15, 2013

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Instapaper's web redesign beta.
Rewriting a codebase from scratch.
Understandable code and writing for maintainability.
The balance between easy-to-write but unimpressive apps and implementing cutting-edge features that require messy hacks.
The horrible mess of smartphone photo management and backup.
How much should Apple protect people from hardware failures or carelessness? (See also: John's old two-hard-drives article.)
Technical and economic challenges of Apple automatically backing up all of your photos and videos.
Non-nerd backups.
After-show: OS X Ivericks, Gruber on interface familiarity, Edge Cases on filesystems.

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25: Thrustmaster Joystick Aug 09, 2013

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Marco's new-new-new app for aligning double-ender podcast tracks.
Economic considerations and options for releasing an app that's extremely helpful to a very small number of people.
Why Marco has been procrastinating from the big app by making small apps.
Good app names as motivation.
Desktop Twitter distraction and measuring desktop productivity with RescueTime.
Casey's sales of Fast Text since last week's promotion, Marco's sales of Bugshot, and the potential economic upside of promotion for niche apps.
The fashion longevity of iOS 7's default UI.
Chrome's controversial plaintext-password feature and Chrome security leader Justin Schuh's defense of the design.
Lakes.
An epic, half-hour Siracusa rant on the state of finding and installing Minecraft mods.
Kali.
caseyrumors: Is this the future of Fast Text?

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24: Double Meta Aug 01, 2013

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Non-developers might want to skip the first 35 minutes: a technical discussion of FMDB, SQLite, and implementing your own generic "model" class. Plus: Casey finally gets to talk about .NET. (Note from Marco: The day after recording, I rewrote my model class to rely on KVC instead of runtime tricks and reflection. Please email Casey.)
The types of programmers who can and should write their own low-level classes.
Casey's app, Fast Text, and why he wrote it in 2010.
John's unfulfilled app idea and name.
Getting yourself moving on an iOS app.
Victory Lap for Ask Patents.
A 29-minute after-show extravaganza about lazy input sanitization and parameterization, extremely difficult games, eggs, and beaches.

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23: The X Or The X Jul 25, 2013

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FU: iSCSI and network Time Machine.
iFixit teardown of the new AirPort Extreme.
Apple's extended Developer Center downtime. (Note: we recorded this before we knew why it was down.)
_DavidSmith on Logic X's pricing and what this might indicate for future App Store upgrades.
Whether upgrade pricing is best for consumers, and the upgrade-pricing train.
iOS developers acting like the RIAA in 2002.
The complexity of modern software business models.
The Wal-Martization of app pricing and how Marble Madness formed the modern Marco.
Are Apple's policies really at fault for falling app prices?

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