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519: Paint My Wings

Accidental Tech Podcast

Apps for Kids - How to Avoid Ads and IAP Garbage

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If you're trying to avoid like ads and IAP garbage, there's a couple of small tricks you can do. The only trick is if you put your iPad in airplane mode, the ads won't load and therefore will be skipped. There's no other silver bullet except apple arcade as mentioned earlier. You just kind of have to like look at the apps yourself first before you let your kid use them.

Pre-show:
- Frame Game
- ❗️ New Member’s special ❗️
- Belated observation of an anniversary
  - Casey’s ATP announcement tweet
Follow-up:
- The new Mac mini is the same dimensions as the old one
- But the base-model SSD is far slower… again.
  - Max Tech
- Twitter officially bans third-party clients
  - Diff (via Andy Baio)
  - Twitter Dev’s tweet
    - Jason’s thoughts, which are 😗👌🏻
    - Jason’s follow-up
  - Twitterrific Goodbye
    - Linea
    - Tot
    - xScope
  - Tweetbot Goodbye
    - Ivory
- Twitter does, indeed, seem to be crumbling
- Valentines Day at White Castle
- Unusual ways to listen to ATP
- Some Movie Club follow-up:
  - Regarding Hunt’s language change (via David Watson)
  - Some thoughts from Patrick Warn
    - The Whistle Blower
  - Smarter Every Day gets on the USS Toledo
Marco’s USB-charging question
Apple is exploring touchscreen Macs 😱
#askatp:
- Any app suggestions for young kids? (via Lee Jarvis)
- How in the 🤬 can you move or rename an open document on macOS? (via Brian Coffey)
- How do we handle health insurance [since 🇺🇸 sucks]? (via Nevin)
Post-show: Window-washing follow-up

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