Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Sep 15, 2016 • 1h 59min
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
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Sep 8, 2016 • 3h 14min
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
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Sep 3, 2016 • 2h 6min
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
🐢
🦄
👧
⛰
👨
🐲
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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
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Aug 24, 2016 • 1h 48min
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
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Aug 17, 2016 • 1h 29min
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?
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Aug 10, 2016 • 1h 59min
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
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Aug 4, 2016 • 1h 39min
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
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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
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Jul 27, 2016 • 1h 47min
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
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Jul 21, 2016 • 1h 49min
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
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Erasure
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
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Jul 14, 2016 • 1h 43min
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
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Tesla Autopilot
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