

Connected
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Connected is a weekly panel discussion on Apple and the impact of technology on our lives. With each co-host having a unique background — and accent — Connected provides a perspective that no other show can. Hosted by Federico Viticci, Stephen Hackett, and Myke Hurley.
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Sep 8, 2016 • 1h 43min
107: Bathtub Full of Espresso
Stephen and Federico walk through Apple's September 7 event.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Apple’s September 7 Keynote by the Numbers – MacStories Apple Adds Collaborative iWork, Updates Beats, iPad – MacStories Apple, Niantic Announce Pokémon Go for Apple Watch – MacStories Apple Watch Series 1 - Apple Apple Watch Series 2 - Apple Apple Watch Nike+ - Apple Apple Watch Hermès - Apple Apple Watch Edition - Apple iPhone 7 - Apple Apple's notice about Jet Black Inside iPhone 7: Why Apple Killed The Headphone Jack - BuzzFeed News iPhone 7 battery life

Aug 30, 2016 • 1h 36min
106: Running in Gucci Shoes
With a week to go before Apple’s fall event, the Connected Trio gather from their respective lands to discuss the possibilities of new Apple Watch models, new Macs and Apple’s situation in Ireland.
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Links and Show Notes: With a week to go before Apple’s fall event, the Connected Trio gather from their respective lands to discuss the possibilities of new Apple Watch models, new Macs and Apple’s situation in Ireland.
Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership The age of the dramatic Apple event reveal is over, and that's okay | iMore Canvas #17: 2Do with Ben Brooks - Relay FM Federico's Invite Joke Ticci the Analyst Apple Acquires Personal Health Data Startup Gliimpse | Fast Company Apple Ordered to Pay Up to 13 Billion Euros in EU Tax Crackdown – MacStories Customer Letter - Apple Spotify Is Burying Musicians for Their Apple Deals - Bloomberg Spotify says Apple won’t approve a new version of its app because it doesn’t want competition for Apple Music - Recode 42mm Apple Watch 2 May Have 35% Larger Battery - Mac Rumors Upgraded Apple Watch 1 Models Said to Launch Alongside Apple Watch 2 Later This Year - Mac Rumors Apple Is Working on iPad Upgrades and Refreshed Mac Lineup - Bloomberg Intel Kaby Lake announced as the 7th generation Core processor - The Verge Inside Apple's perfectionism machine - Mashable Questions About That Rumored OLED Bar on the Next MacBook Pro – 512 Pixels More on the Rumored ‘Dynamic Function Row’ – 512 Pixels Membership - Relay FM The Prompt #20: TAKE ACTION - Relay FM

Aug 26, 2016 • 1h 12min
105: What Does Done Mean?
Federico’s back, so the power of The Prompt Curse has been restored. Picturelife is dead, Ping is in headlines and iOS 10 is closer than ever.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Italy Earthquake: How to Help Victims - Time Encryption software to secure files in the cloud | Boxcryptor How secure is Dropbox? - Dropbox Help Government Hackers Caught Using Unprecedented iPhone Spy Tool – MacStories Stephen's Home Museum Apple Adds to Vintage Software Collection With eBay Purchase - Mac Rumors Apple’s ’40 Years in 40 Seconds’ Video Annotated – 512 Pixels Apple Music Festival 10 Running From September 18 to 30 – MacStories Photo-storage service Picturelife shuts down 18 months after being acquired - The Verge Picturelife Facebook Update Reply All #71 The Picture Taker SmugMug - Picturelife I’m done with iCloud Photo Library – 512 Pixels My Photo Management Workflow, Early 2014 – MacStories Apple Weighs iPhone Video Editing App in Renewed Push on Social - Bloomberg On iTunes Ping – 512 Pixels Eddy Cue And Craig Federighi Open Up About Learning From Apple's Failures | Fast Company

Aug 18, 2016 • 1h 9min
104: Our Anniversary Birthday
On the second anniversary of Relay FM, Myke and Stephen (who is suffering from a terrible case of laryngitis) talk about iPhone rumors before answering questions about the podcast network.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Mossberg: The 9.7-inch iPad Pro might be your lightest laptop, thanks to Logitech | The Verge Razer Keyboard for iPad? - YouTube Alleged Pics of ‘iPhone 7 Plus’ in New Blue Colour | iPhone in Canada ‘Reliable source’ says this year’s iPhone will indeed be called the iPhone 7, no iPhone Pro | 9to5Mac Alleged 'iPhone 7' schematics hint at mic instead of second speaker - Apple Insider Myke's Tattoo Connected #95: RelayCon WWDC 2016 - Relay FM NYC Meetup Details Presentable - Relay FM B-Sides #22: I Love To Test: Pokémon Go - Relay FM A Conference About Building Businesses | Release Notes Membership - Relay FM

Aug 8, 2016 • 1h 35min
103: No Such Thing as a Sticker Emergency
Before Federico heads to the beach for many months of vacation, the guys talk about iPad keyboards, Dropbox Paper and Instagram Stories before answering listener questions.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Relay FM London Meetup Apple launches international Smart Keyboards for iPad Pro | 9to5Mac #MykeWasRight — Apple Pencil Hacks Gboard on the App Store Myke's Gboard Theme Dropbox Paper EmojiOne | The Open Emoji Standard 🙋 Emojipedia FAQ The Macintosh TV: The worst of both worlds | iMore Stephen Macintosh TV Mac Power Users #331: Stephen Hackett: Collector of Macs - Relay FM Stories - Instagram Blog The Audacity of Copying Well – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Impressions! - MKBHD - YouTube Timely Beard Tweet Canvas #10: Third Party Email Clients - Relay FM

Aug 2, 2016 • 1h 29min
102: Zwidge
This week: new iPad keyboards, old ways of listening to music and a lot of emoji talk.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Google Image Labeler Bionic #56: Different Shades Of Beige - Relay FM Overcast Timestamp Link to Bionic 56 Upgrade #100: The Least Less - Relay FM Logitech CREATE iPad Pro Keyboard Case with Apple Pencil Holder An Ode to the iPod Classic — The Ringer Apple Releases the Apple TV Remote App – MacStories The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 146, With Very Special Guests Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi Putting the 'More' in iMore — part deux | iMore Joshua Topolsky, Former Verge Editor, Raises Funding for Digital Media Venture - WSJ The Outline Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M | TechCrunch Quip - Quip + Salesforce = Big News Membership - Relay FM Gendered Emojis Coming In 2016 Pride Flag Apple adds more gender diverse emoji in iOS 10 - Apple 🔫 Pistol Emoji Benjamin Mayo's Water Gun Tweet

Jul 26, 2016 • 1h 7min
101: Best Represent Pineapple
In a stunning break with tradition, Connected tackles the multi-iPad lifestyle and photo management in this week's episode.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership In the new tvOS beta 3 you can use a PS4 controller to control it. : appletv Upgrade #99: Disciplined Cash Machine - Relay FM Razer Mechanical Keyboard Case: The quest for the perfect iPad Pro keyboard continues - Six Colors Apple’s Data Collection in iOS 10 – MacStories The Talk Show ✪: Live From WWDC 2016, With Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi Google Photos passes 200 million monthly active users | VentureBeat | Dev | by Ken Yeung

Jul 19, 2016 • 1h 27min
100: Tepid Takes
On the centennial episode of Connected, the crew covers #TicciMentee program applications, checks out Scrivener for iOS and considers iOS 10's widgets and privacy features.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership The Prompt #54: Asking for a Jetpack Too Soon - Relay FM Razer Keyboard for iPad? - YouTube Mac Power Users #331: Stephen Hackett: Collector of Macs - Relay FM Mac Power Users #317: Myke Hurley: Collector of iPads - Relay FM B-Sides #22: I Love To Test: Pokémon Go - Relay FM Ticci's Screenshot Scrivener for iOS Release Date Scrivener for iOS - Feature Overview on Vimeo Literature and Latte - Scrivener Writing Software Canvas #2: Document Providers - Relay FM YAML - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Is Apple Adding 3D Touch to iPad with Apple Pencil? - YouTube PCalc Widget Experiments Apple’s Data Collection in iOS 10 – MacStories A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: What is Differential Privacy? Inside iOS 9 Search: Apple’s Plan for More Connected Apps – MacStories Android Instant Apps | Android Developers

Jul 14, 2016 • 1h 9min
99: European Exotic
For episode 99, listener Nathan sent in the best follow-up of all time. After that, the boys talk about Stephen's PowerBooks, Myke's two-factor authentication pains and Federico's new line of work.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership The 123 Notetaker Icon Page Thinking About An iPad Pro – MacStories The Prompt #31: Viticci Seal Of Quality - Relay FM 7 Notebook Reviews in 6 Minutes - YouTube Some Apple Notebooks: 2000-2016 | Flickr My YouTube setup – 512 Pixels Razer made a mechanical keyboard for the iPad Pro | The Verge Mechanical Keyboard Gif Doing the two-step: Switching to Apple's two-factor authentication - Six Colors More on Apple's two-factor authentication: Apple Watch, app passwords, more - Six Colors Two-factor authentication for Apple ID - Apple Support Frequently asked questions about two-step verification for Apple ID - Apple Support Using app-specific passwords - Apple Support Planet of the Apps John Voorhees' thoughts on Planet of the Apps Inquisitive #27: Behind the App #1: History - Relay FM iOSstories.net

Jul 5, 2016 • 1h 14min
98: My Brain is Cruising eBay at Night
This week, Federico was late to the show so Stephen got to talk about Hackintoshes before the new beta of iOS 10 dropped and rocked the Europeans to their core.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Predictive Typing Language Availability Classic Mac on the App Store Hearts on the App Store Hands on the App Store Smileys on the App Store Review: Smart Keyboard for 9.7-inch iPad Pro - Six Colors Evernote announces new pricing – 512 Pixels Today’s Hackintoshes – 512 Pixels Building My $1,200 Hackintosh — Medium OS X on an HP Mini 1000 – 512 Pixels The Switch to Intel | iMore John Cena’s Fourth of July message to America: be a patriot, not a bigot | The Verge Apple issues iOS 10 beta 2 for iPhone and iPad developer testing | 9to5Mac Smileys on the App Store Hands on the App Store Hearts on the App Store Classic Mac on the App Store