Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Oct 18, 2014 • 2h 25min
87: Not an Accurate Representation of My Mousing Skills
Follow-up:
GameCube controllers only work with Super Smash Brothers
Apple's event: Yosemite, iPad Air 2, Retina iMac
Unfunny funny skits
Retconned Retina iPad Mini
The A5 lives on for another year or two
Apple's ASP strategy tax (John, previously)
The new iPads
John's iOS device plans
Authy two-factor auth app
iMac Retina 5K
Marco on 5K iMac vs. Mac Pro
Developing Perspective
John's Review
Buy the iBook!
Buy the Kindle eBook
Buy Ars Premier to get all the things
About John's review
xScope
Lattner's tweet
Mike Ash's Friday Q&A
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Oct 8, 2014 • 1h 38min
86: Moving the Party to the Bar Down the Block
Trends in social networks
App.net Broadcast
Ello (@marcoarment, @caseyliss, @johnsiracusa, @atpfm)
Cupcake
The Talk Show #74: Glenn Fleishmann explains Bitcoin
Follow-up:
iPhone 6 Plus Scaling (mostly thanks to Hendrik's research)
Dev Forums
Hendrik's video
Test pattern
Source of the image-of-text from last week
Forum post about scaling adding detail
More on the bendy iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
Consumer Reports
Uri Gellar
Continued iPhone 6 impressions
Grips
Apple Leather Case
Apple Silicone Case
Valentine Goods leather backs
Louie Mantia on sizes
Post-show:
More on the iPhones 6 screens
Gamecube controllers
Adapter for Wii U
It is supposedly compatible with more than just Super Smash Bros
F-Zero
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Oct 3, 2014 • 1h 21min
85: The Unexpected Hard Part
Follow-Up:
John defends his derision about the load-bearing finger
Thumb commercial
Accidental Build and Analyze about iOS 8 size classes and adaptive UI
Write-up by Justin Williams (the "???" square in the grid is the iPhone 6 Plus in landscape)
iPad resizable-apps video by Steven Troughton-Smith
Designing Applications
Vesper
Unread
Continued Follow-Up:
NFC around the world
iPhone 6+ scaling
Original tweet
Source
John on Mac resolution swapping
Bendy iPhones 6
Consumer Reports bends phones
Anecdotal evidence
iPod Touch people
Marquetry (via @sjsyrek)
Proprietary eponym
Jonathan Mann's Harry Potter EP on Kickstarter
Post-show Follow-Up:
The Invisible Spreadsheet
Update on John's review
Slippery iPhones 6 and cases
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Sep 26, 2014 • 2h 13min
84: The Load-Bearing Finger
Follow-Up:
Jason Snell on iPhone 6 CPUs
Upgradeable Apple Watches
Apple S1
How do you sell a $10,000+ watch in an Apple Store?
Apple Watch Edition's special box
Apple Pay and banking
The hidden meanings of Apple "tv"/"WATCH" text styling
Trade names and the NFL
If Steve were alive...
Ben Thompson's take
Tim Cook's Charlie Rose interview
Part 1
Part 2
Apple's diversity report
iPhone 6/6+ impressions
Apple iPhone 6 leather case
Hello, Internet #21
Virginia Roberts
Stephen Hackett
17" MacBook Pro
Post-show:
iPhone 6 Plus bending video (follow-up with more phones, Galaxy Note 3)
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Sep 18, 2014 • 1h 46min
83: Entering the iTouch Phase of My Life
Pre-Show: Inexpensive tablets
Follow-up:
More on Retina displays for the Mac
Thunderbolt 2, Thunderbolt 3, and Skylake
iPhones 6 and 6 Plus
Optical image stabilization
Matt Panzarino's awesome iPhones review
Barefeats benchmark
Marco teaches Casey about photography
Android Wear versus Galaxy Gear
Apple's and Google's rates on payments
Quora article
Financial Times
Whether we're blind to Android doing things first
ATP #1
Apple Watch's potential pricing
Solid gold cases
Veblen goods
Gruber's analysis
Buying experience
Scott McNulty's tweet
Apple Store in Grand Central Terminal
Cases, fashion, and personalization
Closeup of Apple Watch Sport
Stickers commercial
Offline features
Send text messages in languages with pictographic/Logogram alphabets
Graffiti
Battery indicator
Charging Citizen Eco Drive watches
Post-show:
The U2 thing
Apple Privacy Announcement
Charlie Rose Part 1 and Part 2
Marco accidentally releases an iPad app
Replacing launch images with storyboards
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Sep 11, 2014 • 2h 50min
82: The Flash Storage Is Adequate
Follow-up:
Marco and John get excited about a monitor
Sexism epiphanies
TiVo Mega
SnapStream
Kaleidescape Disc Vault
Macworld layoffs
Jason Snell
iPhone 6/Apple Watch Event
iPhone 6 & 6+
Ill-informed stream theories
Samsung's cheesy S4 intro
@forgottentowel on iPhone design priorities
Printable iPhone 6/6+ templates (or this alternate)
ATP #1
Special guest appearance by Tiffany Arment
Apple Watch
EVT Leak
"Antacid Tablet"
Printable Apple Watch templates
Apple PR Announcement
A high-end-watch nerd talking about the Apple Watch
Walkie-Talkie feature
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Sep 5, 2014 • 2h 25min
81: You Left Your Money in a Bank
Follow-up:
TiVo service charges and OTA channels
Frayed Lightning Cables on Tumblr
Google allegedly dropped out of buying Twitch
Anand Shimpi retires from AnandTech to work for Apple
Anand's announcement
Tom's Hardware Guide and the 1133 MHz Pentium III
Hackers steal photos from celebrities, apparently by phishing their iCloud accounts or answering security questions
Possibly similar to Mat Honan's hack
Find My iPhone was missing rate-limiting
Apple says the rate-limiting flaw wasn't involved
Ben Thompson on iCloud's reputation
Tim Cook responds in WSJ interview
Next week's Apple event
Feld & Volk video of an assembled 4.7" iPhone 6
Relative seating capacity of Apple event venues
Recent attacks of women in gaming
An overview on The Guardian
Another good overview
Feminist Frequency (YouTube channel)
Isometric: Brianna Wu, Maddy Myers, Georgia Dow, and Steve Lubitz
Susan Arendt
"Common Markdown", née "Standard Markdown"
John Gruber's official Markdown
That word for when "I know that you know that I know…" and so on that John couldn't remember: Yomi
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Aug 29, 2014 • 1h 28min
80: Tangled in Version Numbers
Follow-up:
iTunes on Windows uses Objective-C
Lightning cables
Advice from Geniuses at the Apple Bar
When to ask for a replacement
Strain relief design
USB icon on the cable
There's still a Mac with an optical drive
CD-ROM nostalgia
CD caddy
Math co-processor
Kenwood TrueX 72x CD-ROM with 7 laser beams
When will Apple let spinning hard drives die?
What size drives do iMacs use?
Verizon "SpeedMatch"
Merlin Mann asks about the new TiVo Roamio OTA
Version Numbering
The Infinite Version
Do people care about pretty URLs.aspx?
Podcast Patent Troll
Ars Technica
Hypercritical #67
Hypercritical #68
Ars on Carolla Settling
Adam Carolla discusses the case starting around 40 minutes
Marco's headphone review
Post-Show:
John's review status
Amazon buys Twitch
Twitch Plays Pokémon
Isometric
Marco.☕️
Bad.☕️
Explanation of John's joke domain for The Flop House
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Aug 21, 2014 • 1h 35min
79: Tip Ring Ring Sleeve
Pre-show: Relay FM and Casey's new show about feelings
Follow-up:
Rumored Lightning cable with reversible USB end, too
Lightning cables breaking at the strain-delay cuff
PVC
Apple's official cable
Amazon's knockoffs
Monoprice's knockoffs
Cables' Springy Bits
TRRS connector
Non-spammy Verizon DNS
Console sales
How do you pronounce "Haxe"?
Twitter continues to try to ruin itself
Being a completionist versus following Glenn Fleishman
Twitterrific with unified timelines and Tweetbot without
Build an Acura in a tweet!
App.net and Tent
iTunes 12
Will iTunes ever get a complete rewrite or have functionality spun off into multiple apps?
Photos in Yosemite
Post-show:
Non-ideal times to decide whether to have another baby or write another OS X review
How old is Stephen Hackett, really?
Could you use an iOS device as a media-sync host for an iPod?
Transferring large files over wireless (including Eye-Fi cards)
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Aug 15, 2014 • 1h 33min
78: Fleece the Whales
Pre-Show:
Casey's New Podcast
Follow-Up:
USB Type-C connector finalized
Peter Bright's comment
xkcd
ARM Macs
Summly
WIMP
_DavidSmith's Version Stats
More on Jared Sinclair and the App Store economy
Jared's new job
Release Notes #65
_DavidSmith's Developing Perspective #192
Early Instapaper screenshots
"App Rot"
Capo
TiVo Premiere UI update
TiVo ditches Flash
Haxe (həvər)
Account-free Overcast
Jalkut theory on App Store review
Post-show:
Casey sells his soul for symmetric internet via Zac Bir
A Cry in the Dark
Casinos
Boiler Room
Leftovers
Casey on Debug
Wii U Games
Mario Kart 8
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Playstation 4 Sales
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Nintendoland
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Kart 64
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