Accidental Tech Podcast

272: 60% Satisfied

01 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

ATP MERCHANDISE!! Get your clothing by May 7 @ 9 PM ATP time Get your pins NOW! They're about to sell out! Follow-up: More on 32-bit deprecation Ra...

271: Voting With Your Virtual Feet

26 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

ATP MERCHANDISE!! Get your clothing by May 7, 9 PM ATP time Get your pins ASAP! They will sell out! Sorry, no flamethrowers. Follow-up: Would Bitco...

270: Three Major Zippers

18 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Backpacks: Peak Design Everyday Backpack 20L Tom Bihn Synapse 25 Chase Reeves on YouTube and on the web Tom Bihn Cache Tom Bihn Cadet & Casey's r...

269: Cooled by Jellyfish

13 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: iPhone throttling notification macOS 10.13.4 32-bit warnings Learn More... ProClip mounts (via Sean Harding) Casey's bloody car rags ar...

268: A Tarnished Brass Age

05 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: HAM radio and GMRS licenses New iOS onboarding screens are indeed about GDPR Education feedback Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Pulsating h...

267: I Slowly Ate the Crystals

31 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco's road trip Sudden Coffee Underscore David Smith's travel coffee kit Follow-up: Breath of the Wild and the Wii U Space Gray accesso...

266: Text Adventure Mode

23 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Compound commands in cylinders You shut down your computer because of a problem... GDPR Personal data PCI HIPAA This keyboard feels so...

265: Simon Says Volume Five

15 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Onboarding and GDPR GDPR for web developers Slack 💔 IRC Alexa can solicit follow-up Siri drama at The Information Daring Fireball w...

264: Every Building Has Bugs

07 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Laptop arrow keys Dell's abomination Erin and Alexa Onboard all the things What's New in Clock Cambrian explosion Telestrator Apple ...

263: Old Potato

01 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: John is on NoMAD Active Directory Jamf's blog post Casey adopts a new child Timber Fireball AnyList Nexia AOL Instant Messenger hand...

262: A Clear Path to Okayness

24 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Casey's new career of missing obvious programming solutions Analog(ue) #126: I Love You So Much; This is Infuriating GIFwrapped Slopes Siri all up ...

261: Seven-Dollar Plastic Garbage

16 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Shake Shack, Five Guys, and Cookout Follow-up: Battery feedback: 1, 2, 3 Casey's boneheaded mistake Marco's grocery-list apps Clear ...

260: The Todoyist Problem

09 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Is throttling old phones really better? Does anyone other than tech bloggers give a 💩 about smart speakers? Raspberri Pi music player u...

259: I Hired Myself

01 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Who ordered a HomePod? Query #23: Hands-on with the HomePod iPod Hi-Fi iMore HomePod FAQ Casey orders an Ethernet adapter USB-C Ethernet Adapter US...

258: Non-Beta Data

25 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: Battery replacement reticence iOS 11.3 battery health messaging macOS Spectre and Meltdown fixes go back to El Capitan HomePod preorders a...

257: Smell the Wind

18 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Casey and Erin had a baby! John's first and second dad comics Casey's photo management workflow Follow-up: Europe's black Mac PCalc About screen, r...

256: A Heroic Threshold for Pain

11 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Apple's Meltdown/Spectre statement How it affects WebKit Raspberry Pi's writeup Measuring performance ∆ iMac Pro peripherals on eBay Full set: $1...

255: The Thermal Paste Lottery

04 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Apple's battery slowdown PR Accelerated rollout The Talk Show #210: Australian Battery Scam Phone throttling isn't always the issue iMac Pro therma...

254: Hot Box With Knobs

26 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: Secure Boot KBase Article Cabel's screenshot Women car journalists From last week: Cars from a Woman's Perspective #ask...

253: I Think I Ordered One

20 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: Jeep Wranglers iMac Pro RAM upgrades iMac Pro input devices Mac Pro will be "upgradeable" iMac Pro orders #askatp Entry-level open-back...

252: Any Day Could Be Mac Pro Day

14 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show Neutral: Casey has car problems Follow up: Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad is apparently bendy #askatp Holiday gift ideas Mophie Qi charg...

251: Uninstall Your Water Reminder App!

07 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Casey argues for day/month/year instead of year/month/day (ISO 8601) Celsius is stupid for ambient air temperature Follow up: Root bug post was in ...

250: We’re Doing a Show

30 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Keyboard imprints on laptop screens Butterfly keyboard Video of Casey's old ThinkPad 701 Steganography Marco is no longer case-liss Jamie Clawson l...

249: Beehives Full of Bees

21 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: iPhone X multitasking gesture Requesting refunds on AppleCare (via John Himm) Fake fingerprint stickers iCloud restores during iPhone X se...

248: Chili Cookoff

16 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: Tradespeople and Face ID Multitasking gesture wonkiness on the home screen "I got this phone for $50 and it's fine" Pro-rated AppleCare+ M...

247: A Place to Stick Your Gum

10 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: Apple TV 11.2ß makes John happy Time Machine local snapshots App Camp for Girls fundraiser #askatp iPhone X cases (via Nathan Walls) Ap...

246: I Just Want My Stories

02 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: F1 flappy paddles iPhone X preorder results Recent performance of the rumor mill Marco's iMac returns MacBook Pro keyboard repair cost App...

245: Senior-Citizen Advantage

26 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: The right to chair arms #askatp Bitcoin The Talk Show #74: Glenn Fleishmann explains Bitcoin iPhone SE... X? Macintosh SE/30 How to ca...

244: The Mac Renaissance

19 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: ATP 243 notes Follow up: Sky platform exclusivity John's chair Torx John's alternative chair Apple Express Replacement Service Example im...

243: Knew About the Dollar Signs

12 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: macOS upgrades vs. clean installs Follow up: Google Pixel preorders (via Hannes Hauer) Google customer service strategy Casey has received ...

242: These Arms Are Coming Off

06 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: iPhone X New Google Pixels Follow up: John received his Apple TV 4K #askatp iOS error-logging frameworks Qi chargers Mike Bolton proposes...

241: Jazzercise Boot Camp

29 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Jazzercise 1982 video compilation Follow up: St. Jude Fundraiser Update Apple TV 4K has a fan 😭 Teardown Downloading 4K iTunes movies ...

240: Undefined Wait Period

21 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Hackett's St. Jude's Fundraiser Follow up: iPhone X screen size John Siracusa, Dongletown, USA Bigger OWC dock John's forthcoming OWC dock El...

239: Set This Money on Fire

14 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Apple Special Event, September 2017 Dan Frommer's photo essay Today at Apple Apple Watch intro video Featuring Kyles the Gray! Louis CK: Everything...

238: Begging for the Hub

07 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-Up: Isn't iCloud close to full-machine backup? Do you really need to spend $1000 on a camera? Printing photos Photo resolution #askatp iPho...

237: You Are Not a Datacenter

01 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-Up: Marco's tukhus, sit bones, and cushioned saddles Backing up /Applications Casey's new-Mac strategy CrashPlan native client may not be f...

236: Irresponsible Use of Infinite Terabytes

24 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Baby Clocks Casey has news iZotope RX Follow-Up: iTunes U → Apple Podcasts Joel on Software: Things You Should Never Do, Part 1 Panic...

235: Notch-Savvy

18 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Always on vacation in... New York? Follow-Up: Mighty, the Spotify "iPod Shuffle" Audio bit depth 24/192 Music Downloads... and why they ma...

234: Everybody Has Asterisks

11 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Toasters Toaster reviews Do By Friday Cameras O-MD E-M10 Zoom lens Sony α7R II Sony α6300 Ad Blockers 1Blocker Better A/V FLAC Pono Tidal ...

233: Nobody Cares But Me, But I Do Care

06 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-Up: TSMC 10nm vs. Intel 10nm Naming of process nodes Intel's claimed three-year advantage Intel set to lose process leadership after 2018? H...

232: You’ve Exceeded Some Limit

25 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Send us questions! Tweet with the hashtag #askatp! The A10X is 10nm as per AnandTech Source & Drain Larrabee Netflix credits skipping John's or...

231: I Am Not a Salad Power User

20 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Calibrating a TV Rtings TV Settings Chopt or SaladWorks Smart Signage Samsung Frame TV THX Tune-Up app Lightning Digital AV Adapter Panic'...

230: Auto, Dynamic, Fresh, Dank

14 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Windows Hello Demo video Telling Twins Apart Rubber-hose cyptanalysis Relevant xkcd Comic Apollo Robbins mDNSResponder Never re-write so...

229: Just Smush the Screen Somewhere

06 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: DragonDrop replacement: Yoink (App Store) Mac stuff for 👵🏻👴🏻 (including Stephen Hackett) dyld vs. dyldd vs. closured App launc...

228: I Never Cancel a Drag

29 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: MacBook Adorable Example multi-use hub Casey's Review Keyboard "shim kit" USB-C hubs Belkin hub HomePod's "screen" Marco's favorite fo...

227: Typing on Pillows

22 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Serenity Caldwell on the new iPad Body size comparison Screen size comparison Typing to Siri Ryan Jones makes some observations New lock...

226: Smooth Scrolling Is For Suckers

15 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Lots of Follow Up John's ancient, slow, Mac Pro APFS WWDC session and file name encoding Norm forms Compression vs. HFS+ iOS 11 Dots vs. ...

225: A Conversation with Siri

06 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Our WWDC 2017 live show! Sponsored by: Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Audible.com: With Audible, you’l...

224: Yearning for Reflection

01 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: Multiple versions of photos Quietly improving MacBook Pro keyboards Pre-WWDC hopes and dreams Upgrade #143: The WWDC Keynote Draft 2017 ...

223: Throw the Fork Away

25 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: Those ✂️️🔑 What do Apple Geniuses do? Official procedure Sketchy keycap removal procedure Regrets from home repair More on box ...

222: As Thin as Humans Will Tolerate

18 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: Revisiting the quiz from last episode MP3 is dead; long live MP3 Fraunhofer's announcement Cookies LAME encoder Audacity 💔 MP3 Spotify...

221: Personal Body Chemistry

11 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: The politics in the last episode Rear Touch ID and prototypes Dirty laptop fabric Alcantara Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Oleophobic coating Ar...

220: Executive Box Lunch

04 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: Moscone food research by Daniel Jalkut More on the potential rear Touch ID Samsung Galaxy S8 Assistive Touch Turning off Haptics:Settings ...

219: Million Dollar Lunch

28 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

ATP WWDC Live at AltConf! Monday, 5 June at 5 PM PDT. Get tickets here, and hurry in case they sell out! Follow up: APFS compression? WWDC lunches ar...

218: MagSafe Cups of Water

19 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: APFS iOS app updates hit the app store Marco's Overcast hacks Podlove Simple Chapters APFS free space Nvidia coming back to the Mac Kier...

217: Apology Mac Pro

12 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: Mac Pro transcript posted Workflow on ice APFS and free space T-Shirt Update Clips Mac Pro OSNews rumors Lance Ulanoff Gruber iMac Pro R...

216: Thermal Corner

05 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: APFS file name encoding WWDC sitrep RIP Jason Seifer The Mac Pro Gruber's take Panzarino's take The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor ...

215: Pots Are Made to Be Broken

30 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: APFS on iOS Settings → General → Storage & iCloud Usage → Manage Storage Oddities with file names Ahoy, Telephone! Naked-er Ro...

214: Christmas Phone

23 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Wii U display lag from Steven Impson Zelda heads-up-display woes Intel X99 high-end desktop options Reasons for delaying the Mac Pro Ameri...

213: Siri in a Can

16 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: A friendly bet for January 1, 2018 Follow up: Windows on iPad (for example, Blackboard) Steve Troughton-Smith's Floating Keyboard Playgroun...

212: Meatspace Windows

09 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: USB-C iPhone 8 Ming-Chi Kuo pours cold water on Apple USB-C notions Anker bricks Questionable USB-C-to-A adapter Chromebox for Meetings ...

211: Hardware Mind Virus

02 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Xeon Gold Follow up: Booting APFS Tesla harassment suit Uber, generic trademarks, Lyft, and alternatives Uber is Quietly Terrible for Women...

210: My Stupid Thumb

24 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Noses, Sinuses, and Snot Do By Friday Follow up: Control Center and AirPods Stagehand Backwards Bike Online chat latency Booting macOS ...

209: Making Sausage-Making Glamorous

16 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

AirPods, a couple of months in Follow up: Compelling users to upgrade their iPhones Biometrics ✌️ ✋ Chromebooks vs. ARM Macs OXO's story ...

208: Your Face Is Your Face

09 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: What could ARM coprocessors in Macs do? Windows Hello face recognition More on iPads vs. Macs Upgrade #127 Connected #128 Marco's blog ...

207: Selling Hot Dogs on a Stick

02 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

iPhone 7 long-term review, waffling about sizes Marco's review of spam-call blockers Nomorobo, the one you should get Follow up: Casey is un-Americ...

206: All You Need Is Five Nerds

26 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Casey needs his morning coffee Follow up: Consumer Reports does an about-face Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard Microsoft Sculpt Ergonom...

205: People Don’t Use the Weird Parts

18 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Transcript of this episode Follow up: MacRumors talks with Lattner LLVM LLVM Bytecode vs. LLVM Bitcode Bitcode Slicing Clang OpenGL Swift ARC Swift...

204: You’re Only Stable When You’re Dead

13 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: Marco and AirDrop Mac Progress Quandary 1 2 3 Tripmode.Helvetica Consumer Reports test results Chris Lattner leaves Apple for Tesla LLVM...

203: Screaming At Us From The Future

05 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Naked robotic MacBook Pro core MacRumors post (Hands-on video from after we recorded that answers some of our questions) VGA passthrough coupler Pow...

202: Something Has Gone Wrong

29 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Back Channel Follow up: Ryan Jones on the AirPods charging port Gurman on Mac Malaise Q&A Siracusa toaster reviews Dovenote Weather Lin...

201: Volume Micromanager

22 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Windows and Tabs of Siracusa County (Overcast) 10.1 tabs 10.2 tabs 1 2 3 4 10.3 tabs 10.3 nested tabs Follow up: Android Battery burn-down chart ...

200: I Had a Dream About the Mac Pro

15 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Our 200th-episode spectacular! 🎉 Pre-show: PC 99 standard Holiday clip show: ATP 174: A Ding in the Room (Overcast) ATP 96: The Windows of Siracus...

199: 10,000 Hours of Coughing

08 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Coughing and machining Video: Machining a crankshaft (thanks, Greg Koenig of Luma Labs) Fisherman's Friend cough drops Follow-up: The future of the...

198: Puppy Game Boy

01 Dec 2016

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Casey learns Scala and Akka Shouty Visual Studio Programming language genealogy Follow up: John's EarPods The Grand Tour downloads Episode 2 mini-r...

197: Life by a Thousand Hugs

25 Nov 2016

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John's Energy Star sticker "Trust, but verify" Hypercritical: Trust, but Verify Casey and John visit an Apple Store Stephen Hackett's keyboard soun...

196: Roasting Your Own Beans

17 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

John's 4K display And also this Casey's work monitor HDCP Marc Edwards on monitor DPI ranges by size Invisibly wide colors Sample images Hockenberr...

195: The Show Must Go On

10 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow up: Iris Pro and Skylake Touch Bar and touch sensitivity TouchBar app with iPad viewer Control Strip Marco's Mac Pro post Empathy for the ...

194: Dark Night of the Soul

03 Nov 2016

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Baseball "MacBook Escape" iFixit Teardown Millenials External Thunderbolt GPUs BizonBOX Belkin Lightning Audio + Charge Rockstar Is Apple out of ...

193: The Escape Zone

28 Oct 2016

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October 27th Apple Event Apple TV Accessibility Siracusa on halo cars and Mac Pros Many MacBooks Mac product roadmap? John's 2010 Macworld article ab...

192: Hello Again Again

21 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up on camera dust: Tips from the Top Floor #748: Bust the Dust (Overcast link) How big does dust have to be? How big do scratches have to be? ...

191: The Failure Mode of a Train

13 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Dealing with DNS trouble Hover outage DDoS Follow-up: Steve Troughton-Smith poll on iCloud files Casey's headphones update Motorola S305 Plantronic...

190: The Girl Who Never Came Over

06 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Casey and John's bet Compu-blur and Stephen Hackett's brother Ceramic iPhone 8?? Ceramic Apple Watch Edition booklet Redesigned iPhone 7 V...

189: The Museum of Pristine Apple Hardware

29 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: OWC iMac RAM update Headphone jack remote issue: solved! Assistive Touch in East Asia iCloud backups on iOS 10 now include passwords? Blue...

188: $850 Fidget Cube

22 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: "Far East" → "East Asia" The Casey/John Bet Luke Brewster Henrik Cednert Assistive Touch and East Asia Scott O'Reilly discovers a Li...

187: Putting Plastic on Your Couches

15 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Home button habits New iOS 10 home button behavior Settings → General → Accessibility → Home Button Widespread home-button conservation The...

186: Jony Ive Has a Lot of White Pants

08 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Apple's September 2016 Event Tim Cook & James Corden do Carpool Karaoke Pharrell Williams WWDC 2015 intro Design video iWork Updates Mario Run ...

185: The Delaware of Europe

03 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: 🌊 The beach 🏖 Casey's Instant Canopy Marco's beach umbrella Ready Player One Fire Island Laptop sizes and relative weight savings ...

184: Procedural Marriage Mistakes

24 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 Panc...

183: I Filed a Radar

17 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

QNX and generally crappy car computing hardware Audio sync, drift, and quartz crystals Marco files a Radar MLLT Audiocogs CORS Libsyn's podcast with ...

182: I Had to Reboot My Car Today

10 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

181: Eat Your Vegetables

04 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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...

180: Don’t Cry for John, Argentina

27 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 Les...

179: Free-to-Play Dogs

21 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Casey's iMac Feedback Pushover Pokémon Go Science Museum of Virginia's Pokémon announcement Maymont Park's exclusive event Rent-a-dog ...

178: Mama Needs That Pokémon

14 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Hackintoshes work sometimes Charles Perry's Mac Mini Story Contour Design RollerMouse Pro2 Casey's 5K iMac (Late 2015, 4GHz i7) Woes Win...

177: Paying for Someone to Blame

07 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Dave Nanian of SuperDuper fame on HDMI CEC Ripping Blu-rays for Apple TV: MakeMKV Subler Plex Infuse DS Video Don Melton's video-transcodi...

176: Yellow Sock Time

30 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Linus Torvalds on HFS+ See also IntegrityChecker chkbit PAR2 and Parchive Protecting against bit rot Mac Toolbox More on APFS Space ...

175: Dance Palace

27 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Marco trying to parallelize the LAME MP3 encoder macOS Sierra and John's comically old Mac Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist T...

174: A Ding in the Room

14 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded live from Marco's hotel room at WWDC Apple WWDC reactions Keynote video watchOS Preview tvOS Preview The Talk Show #146 macOS Preview John...

173: A Series of Heartbreaking Rejections

10 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: No 5K Monitor at WWDC iPhone "7" & SE: Third Time's a Charm macOS in official documentation? Photo evidence App Store changes anno...