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189: The Museum of Pristine Apple Hardware
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 Dropbox Project Infinite Jason Snell's review Jumpcut Pastebot iPhone 7 Plus "Fauxkeh" Portrait Mode Lex Friedman's shots Comparison shots vs. dSLR Panzarino on the blur mechanics Upgrade #108 Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Museums and pocket policies Sponsored by: Igloo: An intranet you’ll actually like. Try Igloo for free. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Get 10% off your first order with this link. TrackR: Find lost items in seconds. Get 30% off your entire order with code ATP. Become a member!
188: $850 Fidget Cube
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 Pace, by Dovenote Software Marco on the local news (Direct video link) Flophouse #37: Seven Pounds Radiation Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: AirPods vs. IEMs Apple and McLaren Rebuttal Not Maclaren Apex Apple "refocusing" the car project? Sponsored by: Pingdom: Uptime and performance monitoring made easy. Use code ATP for 20% off. Linode: Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $10/month. Use code AccidentalPodcast10 for a $10 credit. Betterment: Investing made better. Become a member!
187: Putting Plastic on Your Couches
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 Sponsored by: Linode: Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $10/month. Use code AccidentalPodcast10 for a $10 credit. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Igloo: An intranet you’ll actually like. Try Igloo for free. Become a member!
186: Jony Ive Has a Lot of White Pants
Apple's September 2016 Event Tim Cook & James Corden do Carpool Karaoke Pharrell Williams WWDC 2015 intro Design video 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 Apple's Footnote dbrand skins Apple makes replacing screens cheaper John Gruber's Periscope "Blackbook" Naked Robotic Core Light L16 Lytro Imaging Rene Ritchie on shooting in RAW Serenity Caldwell on zooming Bokeh Non-portrait bokeh Jason Snell on what to expect Buzzfeed on dropping the headphone jack Apple Lightning to headphone jack Adapter Casey's Bluetooth headphones Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Marco downsizes while he upsizes Sponsored by: Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code JETBLACK for 10% off your first purchase. TrackR: Find lost items in seconds. Get 30% off your entire order with code ATP. Betterment: Investing made better. Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: Please donate to St. Jude. We have. Any amount helps. Become a member!
185: The Delaware of Europe
Pre-show: 🌊 The beach 🏖 Casey's Instant Canopy Marco's beach umbrella Ready Player One Fire Island 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 Review guidelines update Review guidelines diffs Talk Show Live, WWDC 2016 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 iPhone 7 packing sheet Google Photos Ad Kaby Lake announced MacBook Air Update? Razor teardowns, fifty years apart Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Sponsored by: Contentful: A content management developer platform with an API at its core. Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code ATP for $50 toward your mattress. Eero: Finally, Wi-Fi, that works. Use code ATP for free overnight shipping. Become a member!
184: Procedural Marriage Mistakes
Twitter quality filter for everyone John buys a camera Sony Alpha α6300 Sony E 50mm f/1.8 OSS Lens Sony E 20mm F2.8 Prime Fixed Lens Canon 40mm Pancake Sony 35mm FE 2.8 (Almost-)Pancake John's toaster reviews 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 Sponsored by: Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code ALWAYSONVACATION for 10% off your first purchase. Indochino: Finely crafted, exceptionally priced menswear. Get any custom-made suit for just $399 with code ATP. Betterment: Investing made better. Become a member!
183: I Filed a Radar
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? Sponsored by: Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off the new Automatic Pro with this link. TrackR: Find lost items in seconds. Get 30% off your entire order with code ATP. Betterment: Investing made better. Become a member!
182: I Had to Reboot My Car Today
John's camera hunt continues The tradeoffs of zoom lenses Sony Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm lens Sony RX10 III superzoom that John probably should get, but won't Fuji X-T2 Sony A7R II, Marco's camera iFixit teardown Sony A7 II, the cheaper, older one Differences between A7 II and A7R II Olympus OM-D E-M10, Casey's camera Panasonic Summilux 25mm f/1.4 Micro 4/3 lens, Casey's 50mm-equivalent The mediocrity of car infotainment systems QNX powers BMW iDrive Worse Products Through Software The ARM Mac feedback that won't die Planet of the Apps announces their advisers Gary Vaynerchuk Cork'd Winecast Apple TV Guide Apple launches bug bounties The Verge's take Tweet with picture of bounties Securosis's take Apple's new diversity numbers Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Why podcasts aren't VBR MP3s MP3 file structure More on frame headers, including the Xing VBR jump table Existing standard ID3 tags that could solve the problem, but appear not to be supported by anything: ASPI: Not precise enough for long podcasts. MLLT: Provides any precision level. A good candidate, but unsupported everywhere. A VBR version of this episode with Xing and MLLT tags Compared to the CBR version, it's 25% smaller with better quality during the theme song Sponsored by: Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code RIPTIVO for 10% off your first purchase. Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase. Linode: Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $10/month. Use code AccidentalPodcast10 for a $10 credit. Become a member!
181: Eat Your Vegetables
John rents a camera for his Long Island vacation Lens Rentals Sony α7R II John's rentals Sony Alpha α6300 (at LensRentals) Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS Sony E 18-105mm f/4 G PZ OSS Sony E 50mm f/1.8 OSS Sony RX10 Casey's setup ATP: The Fully Verified Podcast™ Temporarily-single dad life Casey pretends _'s Tesla is his Casey samples the frunk Apple hires Dan Dodge, co-creator of QNX QNX Operating System Real-time operating system Swift 4 Rovi buys TiVo Macrovision Rambus Set Top Box plans CableCARD Apple's Trouble with TV Hypercritical #1: Dream Crusher Hypercritical #58: No More Numbers For You / The Four Tuners Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: yet more on TiVo Sponsored by: Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code ATP for $50 toward your mattress. Warby Parker: Boutique-quality, vintage-inspired glasses at a revolutionary price. Try up to five pairs at home for free. Eero: Finally, Wi-Fi, that works. Use code ATP for free overnight shipping. Become a member!
180: Don't Cry for John, Argentina
Follow-up: Pokémon Free-to-Play Dogs The Sweet Home Looking at the bright side of Apple's ancient Mac lineup Twitter Verification Attacks on Leslie Jones Federico Viticci of MacStories Twitter accounts: Marco John Casey ATP Overcast Verified Analog(ue) #85: Truly Terrible Human Beings Marco's podcast post-production app Under the Radar #36: Should You Release Every App? Bugshot Quitter Piracy-reduction techniques Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: More on passwords and piracy protection How Tiff can play Inside Samsung T3 VMware Fusion Sponsored by: Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code VERIFIED for 10% off your first purchase. Trunk Club: Premium clothing, great advice, zero work. Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Get $5 off your first purchase with this link. Become a member!
179: Free-to-Play Dogs
Follow-up: Casey's iMac Feedback Pushover Pokémon Go Science Museum of Virginia's Pokémon announcement Maymont Park's exclusive event Rent-a-dog SoftBank to buy ARM Recode's take Gorilla Glass Apple hardware stagnation Stephen Hackett's laptop reviews How does Marco's Sidetrack work? Fast Fourier transform Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: What's appropriate to talk about on ATP? Erasure Randy Pausch's Last Lecture Sponsored by: Indochino: Finely crafted, exceptionally priced menswear. Get any custom-made suit for just $399 with code ATP. TrackR: Find lost items in seconds. Get 30% off your entire order with code ATP. Betterment: Investing made better. Become a member!
178: Mama Needs That Pokémon
Follow-up: Hackintoshes work sometimes Charles Perry's Mac Mini Story Contour Design RollerMouse Pro2 Casey's 5K iMac (Late 2015, 4GHz i7) Woes WindowServer: GPU Driver appears to be hung (over 5 continous seconds of unreadiness) Later RTFU tweet Planet of the Apps Clockwise #145: I've Always Wanted to Have a French Accent Original New York Times article from March Indie Game: The Movie Phil Fish Prospect Productions' Works Pokémon Go Ingress Niantic Ramp Champ Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Tesla Autopilot Sponsored by: Betterment: Investing made better. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code ITSNOTTHERAM for 10% off your first purchase. Pingdom: Uptime and performance monitoring made easy. Use code ATP for 20% off. Become a member!
177: Paying for Someone to Blame
Follow-up: Dave Nanian of SuperDuper fame on HDMI CEC Ripping Blu-rays for Apple TV: MakeMKV Subler Plex Infuse DS Video Don Melton's video-transcoding scripts The TV Database The Movie Database Follow-up on Marco's HDMI CEC woes Follow-up: Matt Bischoff on ice cream ingredients Edy's vs. Dreyer's vs. Breyer's iCloud Drive vs. Dropbox for file syncing Scrivener Sync macOS Sierra and the case of the missing files Dropbox Infinite Hackintoshes still exist, apparently Marco's joke RT Old World ROM Isopoint Trackbar (more here) The poor Mac Mini Motorola Rokr Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show Neutral: Honda Accord SE Sponsored by: Trunk Club: Premium clothing, great advice, zero work. Wunder Capital: Do well and do good. Eero: Finally, Wi-Fi, that works. Use code ATP for free overnight shipping. Become a member!
176: Yellow Sock Time
Follow-up: Linus Torvalds on HFS+ See also IntegrityChecker chkbit PAR2 and Parchive Protecting against bit rot Mac Toolbox More on APFS Space sharing Time Machine and file/directory clones FSEvents Hard links Atomic clones TeachText Snapshots BackupLoupe Surprise HDMI CEC follow-up Logitech Harmony xkcd on standards "Screen time" for kids Transport Tycoon Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood Parent involvement with TV for preschoolers Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Girl Scout Cookies Talenti Gelato Ben & Jerry's Häagen-Dazs Breyer's Dreyer's Blue Bell Jeni's Sponsored by: Amazon Music: Songs of Summer: This Amazon Original playlist features exclusive originals and covers to get you set for the summer. Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase. Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code ATP for $50 toward your mattress. Become a member!
175: Dance Palace
Marco trying to parallelize the LAME MP3 encoder macOS Sierra and John's comically old Mac Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist The Talk Show Live Marco's Pictures Deleting system apps on iOS 10 Search ads using names of other apps Apple Photos and controller search Example success List of strings for Photos search Thunderbolt Display has been discontinued Apple File System WWDC Video Btrfs Andrew File System Unicode Joel Spolsky on Unicode ASCII UTF-16 UTF-8 Latin small letter "e" with acute Unicode Normalization Forms Apple Tech Note 1150 HFS+ Unicode Subtleties Linus Torvalds on HFS+ Shift JIS Data integrity Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Email and parenting Sponsored by: Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use promo code ATP10 for 10% off your first order. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code APFS for 10% off your first purchase. Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated. Become a member!