Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Dec 11, 2015 • 1h 45min
147: Here I Am, I’m a Battery
Follow-up:
The iPhone Lightning Dock exists
Benefits of Lightning headphones
USB Type C supports analog audio
Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader
Remote.app for iOS now works with the new Apple TV
Swift/Foundation bridging
Apple iPhone 6S battery case
Porsche Panamera
Joanna Stern's Review
Anker Ultra Slim
Apple "No" video
Marco's preferred battery brick
"Flower" iMac G4
Chin-less battery case
Casey's Lenmar battery case
Apple updated all of their OSes
State of our Watch usage
What the future may bring for Watch apps
Post-show:
Three nerds talk about fashion... again. We're sorry.
Timex Weekender
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Dec 5, 2015 • 1h 51min
146: Control + Money + Smallness
Follow-up:
iMacs and IR ports
mDNSResponder gets fixed by a phone call to Tim Cook
German video
Vint Cerf
DARPA
TCP/IP
IETF
Stuart Cheshire
iPhone 7 rumored to drop the headphone jack
Existing Lightning-equipped headphones
Slimmed-down headphone jack
Lightning Digital AV Adapter
Casey's Bluetooth headphones
Marco's Bluetooth headphones
Swift goes open-source
Copland 2010
LLVM
Clang
Apple on Github
Traditional Apple open source
Swift commit graph
First Swift commit
Material #23 with Matías Duarte
The Talk Show Live at WWDC 2015 with Phil Schiller
Swift 3.0 plans
Removing NS prefix
Under the Radar #2 - Time for Swift
Ars Technica talks with Craig Federighi
The Next Web talks with Craig Federighi
Swift Issue Tracker
GPL trolls
Post-show:
John had a cloudy day.
Special extended edition of the Siracusa Toaster song by Jonathan Mann, who also wrote our ending theme song. Hire him to make a song for you, a friend, or a loved one this holiday season!
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Toaster #1
Toaster #2
The Sweet Home's toaster oven review
Toaster review compendium
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Warby Parker: Boutique-quality, vintage-inspired eyewear at a revolutionary price.
Nov 24, 2015 • 1h 28min
145: Lasers and Pew-Pew and Space Aliens
Pre-show / Follow-out‡:
John Siracusa Paper Doll
John riding on Merlin's back
John on top of Hypercritical Mountain
Marco's version of John... plus a bowtie
Top Four on Take-Out Food
Roanoke Colony
Extracurriculars:
Reconcilable Differences
Top Four
Robot or Not
The Incomparable
Casey's guest spot
Analog(ue)
Follow-up:
iPad Pro and wide-gamut displays
iMac insomnia
What 2015 tech are we thankful for?
John gets hypercritical about Thanksgiving
mDNSResponder (not discoveryd)
Functional High Ground
Marco's follow-up post
Craig Hockenberry on discoveryd (strong language)
Live Photos & 4K Video
Canon 5D Mark II
Sony A7R II
If you get that, you want this lens, and probably this one too.
Apple Photos
Google Photos
Picturelife
Lightroom
Podcasting
Under the Radar
Overcast
Olympus O-MD E-M10
Casey's review
Big SSDs
Slack
Lightning Digital AV Adapter
Destiny
Quake III Arena
Unreal Tournament 2004
Counter-Strike
Apple Watch
Post-show bonus items:
Apple Pencil
Tesla
‡: Still not Siracusa-approved
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Nov 21, 2015 • 1h 40min
144: Digital Schmear
Follow-up: Apple TV vs. game consoles
Mac App Store certificate problems
Apple's Apology
Sparkle
Michael Tsai: No One Minding The Store
Space Gremlin
Daisy Disk
Twitterrific
iPad Pro, featuring special guest Tiffany Arment
Smart Cover
Pencil
Back to Work #247
Tiff's Signature
Adobe Sketch
Procreate
Tayasui Sketches
DisplayMate on iPad display quality
USB3 speeds in the Lightning connector
Post-show:
Mrs. Siracusa's new iMac 5K
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Nov 13, 2015 • 1h 54min
143: Capital F, Capital C
Follow-up:
Menu button snap-back on the Apple TV remote
John's children react to the remote
Marco and Apple TV gaming
Badland
Limbo
World of Goo
Provenance
f.lux
iPad Pro
Steve Streza's latency video
Matt Panzarino's no-latency video
Microsoft touch latency demo video
WWDC session
Andy Ihnatko's dream
Multitasking UI paradigms
OpenDoc
Post-show: Neutral
Casey's fender damage
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Nov 5, 2015 • 1h 60min
142: Hateful Game of Frogger
Follow-out*:
Marco and _David Smith's new show, Under the Radar
Follow-up:
Facebook's ineptitude
Spotlight indexing for NAS drives
Why do Google Play Music and Stitcher re-host podcasts?
CPM
Apple TV
S/PDIF
The Talk Show #134
Upgrade #61
Konami Code
John's Wii U Setup Woes
Gaming
Crossy Road
Alto's Adventure
Zaxxon
Steelseries Nimbus
Polygon on Apple TV games
Oceanhorn
Provenance
Plex
Post show:
Follow-up on TV audio and sound bars
Casey reads the manual for Marco's car
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This week's toaster
Other reviews
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* This use of the term "follow-out" has not been approved by John Siracusa and does not constitute an endorsement of the phrase.
Oct 29, 2015 • 1h 39min
141: Chain-Link-Fenced Garden
Apple TV and home theater
Apple's guide to choosing a capacity
Optical splitter from HDMI
Marco doesn't know what a "sound bar" is
Follow-up:
5400 RPM benchmarks, charts
Mac GPUs, heat, and noise
2015 5K iMac overheats?
Dynamic range compression in the new AppleTV?
Monitor height and VESA-mounting
Facebook statement on app battery usage
John's Star Wars tickets
Apple's earnings call
Benedict Evans' chart: iPad vs. laptops
Large-storage needs at home: NAS, Drobo, or external hard drives?
Upgrade #60
DS1813+
DS1815+
ATTO iSCSI Initiator
OWC ThunderBay 4 mini
MailDrop
Limits
John on RAID in 2005
Google Play Music adds podcasts
Diff'rent Strokes
Libsyn interviews Google Play Music manager about podcast feature
Post-show: Apple TV reviews
Past guest Christina Warren at Mashable
Walt Mossberg
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Oct 22, 2015 • 1h 43min
140: Harpooned a Turtle
John tries to buy Star Wars tickets
Follow-up:
Chipworks on the A9s (PDF)
Consumer Reports on battery life
Fusion Drives
Magic Trackpad to augment rather than replace
Is the Magic Trackpad 2 too expensive?
Xbox One Elite
iMac revisited
Then and Now
Accessories without Bluetooth
Apple's balance of priorities: use vs. looks vs. profit
Elevation Stand
Leander Kahney's Ive book
20th Anniversary Mac
Facebook battery usage
Post-show: Perl 6
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Oct 15, 2015 • 2h 8min
139: I’ve Seen This Train Before
Pre-show: Where is the updated 15" MacBook Pro?
Follow-up:
TSMC vs. Samsung A9 battery life
Overcast 2
File formats are fun
Bugs
Facebook KVOController
FCModel
What's next
Authenticated feeds?
Business model
Vesper
Marco's XOXO talk
Marco sees a medium
Post-show: New iMacs
Increased gamut 1 & 2
Fusion drive down to 24 GB of flash
New keyboard, trackpad, and mouse
Key travel comparison
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Oct 8, 2015 • 1h 39min
138: Only Microsoft
Follow-up:
Boxee Box and oddly-shaped TV dinguses
TiVo Bolt feature upgrades for Roamios
Top Gear redux begins (Clarkson's tweet)
A tale of two A9s
Extra battery life? (more at Engadget)
Geekbench results: 1 2
Test App
Released after we recorded, Apple's statement
The phenomenal ATP artwork by Mindaugas Rudokas
Get his app, Disco Timer
Full-resolution version
Microsoft Surface Book
Odd iMac colors
More from Stephen Hackett
Jack Dorsey is back at Twitter
Tweetbot 4
Post-show:
P85D vs. 458
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