Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Nov 2, 2014 • 1h 41min
89: DeLorean + McLaren
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
FILM CRIT HULK
The DeHulkifier
WHY HULK WRITES LIKE THIS
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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Oct 24, 2014 • 2h 18min
88: Standing on Opposite Sides of the Gym
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
Twitter Digits
Marco on developers trusting Twitter
Dave Winer's response
Verge article
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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Oct 18, 2014 • 2h 25min
87: Not an Accurate Representation of My Mousing Skills
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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Oct 8, 2014 • 1h 38min
86: Moving the Party to the Bar Down the Block
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)
Dev Forums
Hendrik's video
Test pattern
Source of the image-of-text from last week
Forum post about scaling adding detail
More on the bendy iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
Consumer Reports
Uri Gellar
Continued iPhone 6 impressions
Grips
Apple Leather Case
Apple Silicone Case
Valentine Goods leather backs
Louie Mantia on sizes
Post-show:
More on the iPhones 6 screens
Gamecube controllers
Adapter for Wii U
It is supposedly compatible with more than just Super Smash Bros
F-Zero
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Oct 3, 2014 • 1h 21min
85: The Unexpected Hard Part
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
Original tweet
Source
John on Mac resolution swapping
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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Sep 26, 2014 • 2h 13min
84: The Load-Bearing Finger
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
Apple iPhone 6 leather case
Hello, Internet #21
Virginia Roberts
Stephen Hackett
17" MacBook Pro
Post-show:
iPhone 6 Plus bending video (follow-up with more phones, Galaxy Note 3)
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Sep 18, 2014 • 1h 46min
83: Entering the iTouch Phase of My Life
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:
The U2 thing
Apple Privacy Announcement
Charlie Rose Part 1 and Part 2
Marco accidentally releases an iPad app
Replacing launch images with storyboards
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Sep 11, 2014 • 2h 50min
82: The Flash Storage Is Adequate
Follow-up:
Marco and John get excited about a monitor
Sexism epiphanies
TiVo Mega
SnapStream
Kaleidescape Disc Vault
Macworld layoffs
Jason Snell
iPhone 6/Apple Watch Event
iPhone 6 & 6+
Ill-informed stream theories
Samsung's cheesy S4 intro
@forgottentowel on iPhone design priorities
Printable iPhone 6/6+ templates (or this alternate)
ATP #1
Special guest appearance by Tiffany Arment
Apple Watch
EVT Leak
"Antacid Tablet"
Printable Apple Watch templates
Apple PR Announcement
A high-end-watch nerd talking about the Apple Watch
Walkie-Talkie feature
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Sep 5, 2014 • 2h 25min
81: You Left Your Money in a Bank
Follow-up:
TiVo service charges and OTA channels
Frayed Lightning Cables on Tumblr
Google allegedly dropped out of buying Twitch
Anand Shimpi retires from AnandTech to work for Apple
Anand's announcement
Tom's Hardware Guide and the 1133 MHz Pentium III
Hackers steal photos from celebrities, apparently by phishing their iCloud accounts or answering security questions
Possibly similar to Mat Honan's hack
Find My iPhone was missing rate-limiting
Apple says the rate-limiting flaw wasn't involved
Ben Thompson on iCloud's reputation
Tim Cook responds in WSJ interview
Next week's Apple event
Feld & Volk video of an assembled 4.7" iPhone 6
Relative seating capacity of Apple event venues
Recent attacks of women in gaming
An overview on The Guardian
Another good overview
Feminist Frequency (YouTube channel)
Isometric: Brianna Wu, Maddy Myers, Georgia Dow, and Steve Lubitz
Susan Arendt
"Common Markdown", née "Standard Markdown"
John Gruber's official Markdown
That word for when "I know that you know that I know…" and so on that John couldn't remember: Yomi
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Aug 29, 2014 • 1h 28min
80: Tangled in Version Numbers
Follow-up:
iTunes on Windows uses Objective-C
Lightning cables
Advice from Geniuses at the Apple Bar
When to ask for a replacement
Strain relief design
USB icon on the cable
There's still a Mac with an optical drive
CD-ROM nostalgia
CD caddy
Math co-processor
Kenwood TrueX 72x CD-ROM with 7 laser beams
When will Apple let spinning hard drives die?
What size drives do iMacs use?
Verizon "SpeedMatch"
Merlin Mann asks about the new TiVo Roamio OTA
Version Numbering
The Infinite Version
Do people care about pretty URLs.aspx?
Podcast Patent Troll
Ars Technica
Hypercritical #67
Hypercritical #68
Ars on Carolla Settling
Adam Carolla discusses the case starting around 40 minutes
Marco's headphone review
Post-Show:
John's review status
Amazon buys Twitch
Twitch Plays Pokémon
Isometric
Marco.☕️
Bad.☕️
Explanation of John's joke domain for The Flop House
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