Accidental Tech Podcast

Casey wants to be the pre-show DJ Journey Soundtrack Transport Tycoon TT Original MIDI Music TT Remastered MP3 Music OpenTTD Follow-up: Mavericks, Gmail, and Mail.app Apple and IBM John's review status Synergy Overcast status Mixing server roles for burst capacity nice Weighing feedback Macs with ARMs (in contrast to bubbles with feet) Jean-Louis Gassée's article MVNO MacBook Air Specs iPad Air Specs MacBook Air Geekbench iPad Air Geekbench Mac Power Users Making money in the App Store Jared Sinclair's blog post Planet Money on discussing salaries Fast Text (iTunes Link) sales Opacity Express Jakub Świadek topLayoutGuide Justin Williams on business Jazzychad's post on games Stephen Orth on a different kind of App Store success Justin Williams - "90 days" Stuart Hall - "An App Store Experiment" Post-show: Rube Goldberg Machine Casey's terrible fast-food preferences Fazoli's Ultimate Sampler Casey's "breadsticks" Sonic Drive-In Shake Shack Five Guys Cook-Out Boar's Head Natural Casing Beef Frankfurters Lothar's Gourmet Sausages Sponsored by: TopBrewer: A revolutionary built-in coffee system for the home or small business. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code ATP for 15% off. Marco's app-icon Fractures (First 25 people: Use code marcofree for a free small square Fracture). Need: A refined retailer and lifestyle magazine for men. Email here after ordering to get some bonuses and 25% off your next order.

Follow-up on Overcast: Debug Downloads, accounts, conversions, server load Pixar and Ed Catmull get involved in wage-fixing Previously on ATP The Incomparable Top Gear Series 3 Episode 4 Sega Saturn Yosemite Public Beta IMAP VPN woes of the past Radar SuperDuper OS/2 Warp After-show: Marco rents crazy headphones from The Cable Company Marco's original post HE-6 headphones (the crazy way that planar-magnetic drivers work) The massive EF-6 amp and its crazy audiophile volume knob (top center) — it's a stepped attenuator, since common potentiometers are considered inferior. XLR plugs and balanced audio Casey still loves in-ear monitors (probably while listening to vinyl), but many experts in both prefer headphones. Casey surprises Marco and John by playing Journey Casey drops hints on Twitter days before and John picks up on it PlayStation Store Credit on Amazon Journey Soundtrack on Amazon and iTunes Monument Valley John's blog post Tiff plays Journey The Incomparable on Journey Inception Sponsored by: Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like, free for up to 10 people. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code IHATEYOUSOMUCH for 10% off. lynda.com: Learn at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials. Free 7-day trial.

Pre-Show: John visits Six Flags Follow-up: Overcast week one update Server side vs. local feed crawling XML wonkiness XPath XSLT UI Changes in 1.0.1 What should the rewind and fast-forward buttons do in a podcast app? Episode 1 of the Debug Epic with Nitin Ganatra More on priority podcasts Sapphire iPhone 6 Second Marques Brownlee Video Mohs Hardness Scale Gorilla Glass Apple & IBM Partner in the Enterprise Post-show: Keeping devices & sceens pristine Mac SE/30 Mac Plus Used cars, kids, dings, and knicks Bra Phase John criticizes recent showbot changes TV Talk Which Mike Judge creations are funnier than others Halt and Catch Fire Silicon Valley Veep Sponsors: Cotton Bureau: High-quality, design- and tech-focused T-shirts. Get 15% off any order in July with code ATP15 at checkout. Squarespace: A better web starts with your website. Use promo code ATP for 10% off. Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated.

Follow-up: Showbot status and pull requests Older phones still being bought today, like the iPhone 4S Long-term device limitations and upgradeability, RAM, spinning disks, and Mac/iOS purchasing strategies Vindictive but self-defeating defections Screen size, small hands, and pants/trousers/jeans/khakis/whatevertheyrecalled. Silver Screen Queens Podcast CGP Grey 4K Plasma TVs, as pointed out by Awax, which lists for $500K Overcast has shipped! Planning for server load and timing a release in the App Store Why require user accounts, and why not iCloud? Why freemium? What took so long? Why no streaming? Why does that even matter? IRL Talk RSSRadio ARM SIMD Extensions AltiVec Features users will hopefully appreciate Linking to other independent podcast apps Some serious dedication on Hacker News Posted after we recorded: Castro's response Podcast directory design motivations Possible web-hosting on an A7-based Apple TV like at Mac Mini Vault After-show: John gets Hypercritical about Overcast Electric Shadow Back to Work Sponsored by: Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code ATP for 15% off. (Marco's app-icon Fractures) Squarespace: A better web starts with your website. Use promo code ATP for 10% off. Need: A refined retailer and lifestyle magazine for men. Email here after ordering to get some bonuses and 25% off your next order.

Follow-up: Why would someone switch from iOS to Android? Is it because of software updates? Framily Google I/O Inclusiveness Penny-farthing bicycle RAW editing in iPhoto Alarm fatigue and how it relates to notifications on our phones More on health monitoring by Ben Griffel Control Plane The death of plasma The challenges of making a 4K plasma TV Are 4K TVs worth it? Crutchfield Netflix Shows 4K Leaked "iPhone 6" "Sapphire" Display Video Post-show: Overcast and Content Security Policy Github rolled out CSP Firefox memories Firefox's launch ad in the New York Times Browser rendering engine timeline XUL Rescue Time THE SHOWBOT SURVIVED! Quick Neutral F80 M3 vs. E92 M3 dyno comparison F10 M5 Launch Control Porsche 918 Casey's traction control in the snow Sponsored by: Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase. lynda.com: Learn at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials. Free 7-day trial. Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated.

Pre-Show: Showbot is back, and it has Zarro Boogs. Follow-up: Don Lodsky points us to a sample of Google's new web design for desktop A brief meta-discussion about what we cover, how we cover it, and what being an "expert" is Feedback on potential wearables from Ben Griffel, biomedical engineer, and Per Östergren, MD Aperture and iPhoto's brands were sunset Zoomed Photos UI screenshot Apple tells Ars Technica of "plans for professional-grade features such as image search, editing, effects, and most notably, third-party extensibility." We channel our our inner Prompt and discuss photo management techniques Wonky design choices Jim Ray's tweet that started the conversation OXO Good Grips iFixit teardown of the AirPort Extreme A geometry lession regarding the Back of Marco's trash can Sharp edges got softer on MacBook Pros over time After show: More Showbot talk (spoiler alert) John complains about Safari John complains about the Showbot Casey self-censors XSS by friend of the bot Jeremy Banks Marco circles back and exits the parking ramp regarding Overcast The ghost of Jury Marco's XOXO talk where Overcast was announced... in September 2013 Working around UIKit limitations with crazy hacks Whether to wait for iOS 8 John's Yosemite review status Sponsored by: lynda.com: Learn at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials. Free 7-day trial. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code PARKINGLOT for 10% off. Igloo: Igloo is an intranet you'll actually like.

Pre-show: Million Dollar Homepage (more on Wikipedia) Alex Tew's Twitter Account and new venture Casey's Showbot returns. SPOILER ALERT: The Gist Casey mentioned Casey breaks Marco's brain with consulting terminology Is "!s" pronounced "bang-S" or "exclamation-point-S"? Hat colors Google I/O Overview Material Design Design Reel video Android Auto Moto 360 Watch Panerai Watches Lock-in by visual affordances Gmail API The API doesn't replace IMAP Marco's prediction about IMAP support ART Runtime Are web APIs still necessary? Post-show: "Follow-down" on Swift and openness (Lattner's comment on Mike Ash's Friday Q&A) More silly business metaphors Casey's Showbot: web sockets, error handling, and developing for work vs. "play". Sponsored by: Raizlabs: A full-service development firm looking to hire experienced mobile developers, designers, and product managers in Boston and San Francisco. lynda.com: Learn at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials. Free 7-day trial. Squarespace: A better web starts with your website. Use promo code ATP for 10% off.

Follow-up on app bundles as upgrade pricing. Whether games are more like apps or movies. Amazon's Fire Phone Who's it for? Mayday tech-support feature vs. Apple's retail stores Apple stores vs. U.S. population density Amazon and Apple doing what they're respectively, exclusively good at. Continuity and Handoff in Yosemite and iOS 8 Only Apple (John Gruber) John's opinion of iMessage. Casey's further adventures developing a small web app in a hostile environment. OWASP top 10 web vulnerabilities Sponsored by: Need: A refined retailer and lifestyle magazine for men. Email here after ordering to get some bonuses and 25% off your next order. Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated. Hover: High-quality, no-hassle domain registration. Use coupon code LETMEGETTHATFORYOU for 10% off.

Follow-up: It's OK if you got two T-shirts. Keep them both. Marco was wrong about CloudKit limits. Casey's broken Showbot. Abusing new App Bundles and Complete This Bundle to achieve upgrade pricing in the App Store. The WWDC NDA is mostly gone. WWDC 2014 videos Marco's likely filesystem corruption and restore. SuperDuper Bionic HFS+ Bit Rot Apple's new Metal graphics API. Debug Might the next Apple TV become a game console? How Apple TV Might Disrupt Microsoft and Sony (Ben Thompson) TV "pucks" for gamers After-show special: Tiff and John discuss Journey. The Incomparable: Journey Strange Game Sponsored by: Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated. lynda.com: Learn at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials. Free 7-day trial. Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Order here for 20% off.

Our initial WWDC reactions. Recorded live at Macworld's podcast studio. Thanks, Jason Snell! Sponsored by: Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use code ATP for 10% off. Igloo: The intranet you'll actually like. And it's about to get even better. Warby Parker: Boutique-quality, vintage-inspired eyewear at a revolutionary price.