Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Oct 1, 2015 • 1h 55min
137: Feature Photos
Follow-up:
Endowment effect
VFX and Wacom tablets
Dr. Wave, iPad Pros, and Pixar
Ad-blocker penetration
Ruggedized phones
Apple Music trial ends for day-one adopters
Who renewed?
What's to like?
What's not to like?
Getting rid of "loves"
iPhone 6s
3D Touch
Web 3D Touch support (via @bzamayo)
Taptic Engine
Live Photos
Siri and the M9
Daniel Jalkut on haptic feedback
Daniel Jalkut on Siri's headphone tax
Inventory
A9 manufactured by TSMC and Samsung
El Capitan
R.I.P., John's reviews
Post-show
TiVo BOLT
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This week's "convenience oven"
Siracusa Toaster Chronicles
Siracusa Toaster Megamix
Robot or Not
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Sep 25, 2015 • 1h 54min
136: War and Peace
Follow-up:
Requirements that Find My iPhone and passcodes are disabled for iPhone repairs
iPhone 6s Live Photos
Gruber's review
watchOS/2 and colored activity rings
Peace
Removal
Keeping the Peace
WWDC: Content Blockers
Parakeet
The Loop's list of content blockers
Ghostery's announcement
Loss aversion
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Sep 18, 2015 • 2h 7min
135: Uncomfortable in My Pants
Pre-show:
Top Four
Follow-up:
CEC Unicorns
_David Smith's 16 GB iPhone Research
Damocles
iPhone 6/6S battery numbers
Naked robotic core
Casey's Lenmar battery case
Mophie Juice Pack Reserve
Anker's very similar battery case
Casey's crescent moon and Genius Bar policies
Purchases
Apple TV
Development hardware lottery
Apology mouse
Plex for Apple TV
Clicks vs. taps
24p
TV Calibration
THX Tune Up app
MFI Games
Can Apple TV require a controller?
Apple documentation
Screenshot of prior Apple documentation
WebKit on the Apple TV
Manton Reece's response
Pessimism
Marco's celebratory post
iPad Pro
John on the iPad Pro
Hypercritical #58 (Overcast link)
Touch latency
Microsoft Research
John's post featuring this video
Apple Pencil vs. Wacom Cintiq
The source of John's Hypercritical quote
Sketch and making money on the App Store
Ben Thompson's take
Post-show:
Peace
Marco's post on Peace
Marco's post on ad blocking
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Sep 10, 2015 • 3h 3min
134: Who Did It Firster?
Pre-show:
Casey, Plex, his Synology, and transcoding
Don Melton's scripts
DLNA
DS214Play
TouchID and "S" iPhones
iPhone crescent moon
Safari pinned tabs markup
W3 mailing list
Apple September Event
Apple Watch
[New watch metals and bands]
watchOS 2, custom complications, apps, and Overcast
Is the Apple Watch doomed?
iPad Pro
Paper
Paper Pencil
Surface Keyboard Cover
Wacom Cintiq
Apple TV
CEC
TV Specs
HIG
Steelseries Nimbus
Requiring game controllers
Thomas Was Alone
The Goodfellas podcast
Parallax images in the HIG & creation
iPhones 6S
3D Touch
Upgrade Program
Sapphire lens cover
Zooming 4K
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Sep 2, 2015 • 1h 47min
133: You Have to Walk the Dog
Follow-up:
Why not use push notifications for the iPhone 6 Plus iSight replacement program
Apple, attitude, "cool", and change
Songs of Innocence
iPod Hi-Fi
Force Touch and Taptic Engine in the iPhone 6S
Upgrade #51
New York Times on Amazon's stressful culture
Jeff Bezos' rebuttal
Ballmer Peak
Creativity, Inc.
Dustin Moskovitz on 40-hour work weeks
Work-life balance and workaholism
What's necessary for a successful startup?
Post-show:
John's well-honed capacity for doing nothing
Addiction to coffee and large monitors
Follow-up on Casey's computer options
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Aug 26, 2015 • 2h 15min
132: Digital Hearth
Pre-show:
Casey's Tom Bihn Cadet review
Follow-up:
John's 802.11ac device (via @_adamluther)
John's Wi-Fi Routers
AirPort Extreme Teardown
Noctua fan
What computer should Casey buy?
Mouse design
Apple Mouse
Apology Mouse
Apple Pro Mouse
Logitech MX Revolution
Low Men in Yellow Coats
Apple Mouse History
John's home mouse
John's work mouse
Magic Mouse, "Fixed"
Wirecutter review with grip pictures
Overcast upgrades at Linode
John's adventures with Safari pinned tab icons
Alternate markup
Illustrator
Acorn
Affinity Designer
Challenges of an iPad "Pro"
Cintiq
Mark Gurman on iPad Pro
iPad: A Consumption Device, After All? by Lukas Mathis
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Aug 21, 2015 • 1h 42min
131: Finding Your Way Back In
Pre-show:
Microphones and Electronics
Schiit Wyrd
Shure SM7B
Shure Beta 58A
Shure Beta 87A
Neodymium magnet
Cardioid microphone
Follow-up:
How Intel Skylake is faster
ECC RAM
Failures (PDF)
Bit error likelihood
DRAM errors in the wild (PDF)
Encrypted backups and password management strategies
Mat Honan's hacking story
Jason Snell on Alphabet on Upgrade (Overcast link)
Overcast playlist modification from the web
iPhone rumor time!
Pink iPhones?
Pink Razr
New materials?
iPhone 6 crescent-moon flaw
FedEx logo arrow
Force Touch?
Post-show:
John, the FiOS Fairy, and wireless routers
AirPort Extreme
How to use your router with FiOS
Actiontec Router
MoCA Bridge
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Aug 14, 2015 • 1h 37min
130: Technical Countermeasures
Follow-up:
IBM's TrackPoint study
More on [self-proclaimed] Tap-to-Click Wizards
Apple SIM
Apple's documentation
Lady Whimsy's summary 1 2 3 4
Carrier Performance
Feedback from Chris 1 2
Carrier plans
Derek's theory
Ben's theory
Jeffrey's theory
Links from Aaron E
FCC on early termination fees
Mobile carriers stand by cancellation fees
More on the FCC
Notebook Xeons
G is for Google
Ad-Blocking Ethics
Safari is the new IE
Gruber on iMore
Rene Ritchie on content blockers
Ghostery
Disconnect
Ad Block Plus
Lynx
John's preemptive follow-up on his Star Wars reference.
Post-show:
How's not-reviewing going for John this summer?
Marco's new Sony A7R II
Phase-detect autofocus
Contrast-detect autofocus
Focus Pixels
The key factors to a high keeper rate:
Phase-detect autofocus with continuous subject tracking
In-body image stabilization
Programmable auto-ISO with high shutter speeds
A sensor with low noise at very high ISOs
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Aug 6, 2015 • 2h 18min
129: Tap-to-Click Wizard
Skylake desktop CPUs launch
Casey joins 2012
"Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal."
TrackPoint
TrackPoint Mouse
Leap Motion
2015 iPhone predictions
Naked robotic core
It's Ramifications!
Carrier subsidies and pricing games
AT&T Next
Post-show:
Repairing iPads
Hot water heaters
Marco's new camera
Sony A7R II
Sony FE 35mm f/2.8
Sony FE 55mm f/1.8
Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 macro
Canon 5D Mark II
Nikon D750
Casey's camera setup
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Jul 29, 2015 • 2h 2min
128: Blue Ring Stud
Pre-show:
Invisible formatting
Chapter markers and Germany
Follow-up:
Satya Nadella on Microsoft's iMac
Samsung SSDs and TRIM
MacNN SSD testing
Marco's cellular-option dilemma
Reddit
Reddit is no longer owned by Condé Nast
John slacked off for 46 days
What makes Twitter marginally less crummy?
Q&A about policies
El Capitan's Rootless Mode
WWDC Session 706 – Security and Your Apps
Audio Hijack
Paths in the Grass
Mac App Store... still stinks.
Coda
Craig Hockenberry on the Mac App Store
Post-show:
All three hosts learn something new about life as adults.
Neven Mrgan's CocoaConf talk
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