Accidental Tech Podcast

172: iPhone X

02 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Last call for ATP Shirts! Sale ends on Friday ATP-time! John's attic K56Flex vs. X2 Hayes command set Modem sounds More on the rumored new MBPs USB...

171: WWDC Is Not Santa Claus

26 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: ATP Shirts! BMW M Marco's illustration Follow-up: App Store review times The Talk Show #154 - Facebook on Your Face Force quitting apps...

170: Casey Beats John, 29–29

20 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Buy ATP 2016 T-shirts by June 3! Follow-up: Foodgate 2016 Yale/Harvard Bing bans "tech support" ads Debunking an Apple/podcasting conspiracy theory...

169: My Fingers Are Still Moving

13 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Casey's iPhone battery woes John's drug days in Reconcilable Differences #25: Zarro Droogs Tesla's In-Car Purchase BMW N55 AccessPort BMW Performa...

168: Coffee Stops Working

06 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Our lack of T-shirts Casey's "Doppelgänger" Casey's "Doppelgänger's" Twin Brother Follow-up: No more WWDC failed-charge issues Volvo tr...

167: They’ve Opened the Door to Streakers

25 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

John was on vacation in California Alcatraz Cable cars Lombard Street WWDC 2016 tickets and considerations Under the Radar #24 Transfer Policy Laye...

166: Fitness Turd

20 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Tesla facelift Neutral #3: A Bra Phase Follow-up: Superchargers vs. gas stations SAE's automated driving levels Amazon Echo, Dash Button, and Siri ...

165: Time Was…

12 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Tesla model naming Today's Tesla Autopilot, tomorrow's self-driving cars? _David Smith's Tesla Review Self-driving truck convoy completes ...

164: Waiting for the Bla-Bloop

08 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Flash drives for car music Samsung Flash Drive Fit Marco's modification Follow-up: Apple and renewable energy Purple Safari 1Password stable overri...

163: Wet Right Thumb

01 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Theories on seasonal allergies Follow-up: Walmart is slightly less evil than we thought, at least in renewable energy Sustainability Walmar...

162: iPhone Sorry Erin

25 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: How many iPad and Mac users also carry iPhones? Why not use CloudKit or BackBlaze B2 for Overcast file uploads? Car break-ins via keyless ...

161: Dark Mode Is Your Hat

18 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Why don't we have cellular MacBooks? NSURLSession allowsCellularAccess TripMode Unreleased cellular MacBook Pro prototype Could Photos.app's "UXKit...

160: Be Careful Out There

10 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: SQL Server on Linux TV Mounts Dynamic Mounting Mantel Mount Marco's surprising product review Marketing the next 9.7-inch iPad Transmi...

159: A Typo On Your Brake Pads

03 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: The Ferrari Siracusa (really) Ruf Dinan BMW 1M Cobb Follow-up: Mono vs. Xamarin Apple's self-blacklisted ethernet driver Disk Utility typos...

158: You Can’t Outlaw Math

25 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Driving John's cold over to Craig's house The Talk Show interview with Craig Federighi and Eddy Cue Follow-up: Figma is in the browser Comi...

157: As Many People in the Sandbox as Possible

17 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: iPad signatures My Briefcase Microsoft Bob Maniac Mansion Bluetooth-headphone video latency Casey's headphones John's tweet Possible expla...

156: A Mac on Fire

12 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Previous-episode feedback and constructive criticism Einstein's quote Photos.app crop/aspect behavior theories Keyboard shortcuts Bluetoot...

155: Edit, Crop, Aspect, Original

05 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Serial numbers on serviced Mac logic boards Long-distance wireless charging Artemis Shared iPad developer guidelines Walt Mossberg discove...

154: A Rich Toddler’s Toy

29 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Audiobus used MIDI SysEx, not loopback networking Inter-App Audio on iOS offers Audio Unit extensibility Could Apple make a universal Ligh...

153: Larger, Less Portable Pastures

22 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-Show: Winter weather The Long Dark Memory barrier Pirate eye patches Follow-up: Protocol extensions Testing NSURLSession with Swift Studies on bl...

152: Daddy Didn’t Want the Good Graphics Card

14 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Casey bought an iMac... and you won't believe what happened next. Plex vs. Infuse Mac Power Users on Plex Casey's blog post Follow-up: Swift and def...

151: The Opposite of Final

08 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: UpThere AWS Little Snitch Upthere's response EC2 iPhone 7 Headphone Jack New USB-C peripherals for the MacBook One Griffin "MagSafe" Hyper...

150: A Mac Pro in Every Pot

31 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Foliage in Apple stores Casey gets a new Apple TV Plex Harmy's Despecialized Editions Casey gets a new RetinaPad Mini Apple SIM Steven Tro...

149: Everyone’s on Vacation

24 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Casey's reconciled differences Three truths and a lie Marco experiments with his website Second Crack CentOS Under the Radar Chrome vs. Safari on the...

148: Your Feelings Are Real

18 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Green shifting (see also) Continuous release schedules Jeff Atwood's Infinite Version iPhone 7 battery theories 4-inch iPhone 6S predictio...

147: Here I Am, I’m a Battery

11 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: The iPhone Lightning Dock exists Benefits of Lightning headphones USB Type C supports analog audio Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader Rem...

146: Control + Money + Smallness

05 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

145: Lasers and Pew-Pew and Space Aliens

24 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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...

144: Digital Schmear

21 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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...

143: Capital F, Capital C

13 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 Prov...

142: Hateful Game of Frogger

05 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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...

141: Chain-Link-Fenced Garden

29 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 RP...

140: Harpooned a Turtle

22 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 ra...

139: I’ve Seen This Train Before

15 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 KVOControll...

138: Only Microsoft

08 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 E...

137: Feature Photos

01 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Endowment effect VFX and Wacom tablets Dr. Wave, iPad Pros, and Pixar Ad-blocker penetration Ruggedized phones Apple Music trial ends for ...

136: War and Peace

25 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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...

135: Uncomfortable in My Pants

18 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 Lenma...

134: Who Did It Firster?

10 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Casey, Plex, his Synology, and transcoding Don Melton's scripts DLNA DS214Play TouchID and "S" iPhones iPhone crescent moon Safari pinned t...

133: You Have to Walk the Dog

02 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Why not use push notifications for the iPhone 6 Plus iSight replacement program Apple, attitude, "cool", and change Songs of Innocence iPo...

132: Digital Hearth

26 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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...

131: Finding Your Way Back In

21 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Microphones and Electronics Schiit Wyrd Shure SM7B Shure Beta 58A Shure Beta 87A Neodymium magnet Cardioid microphone Follow-up: How Intel ...

130: Technical Countermeasures

14 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 Carrie...

129: Tap-to-Click Wizard

06 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Skylake desktop CPUs launch Casey joins 2012 "Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal." TrackPoint TrackPoint Mouse Leap Motion 2015 iPhone pre...

128: Blue Ring Stud

29 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Invisible formatting Chapter markers and Germany Follow-up: Satya Nadella on Microsoft's iMac Samsung SSDs and TRIM MacNN SSD testing Marco...

127: Not a Cactus in Sight

22 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-follow-up: Streaming over cellular and UI dilemmas in Overcast 2.0 Follow-up: Original Half Life is available on the Mac (via @Kristian) On-deman...

126: The Web Kind of Happens to You

16 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: John being particular about his particular renovations Follow-up: Web apps versus native apps in the enterprise/government Browser choice o...

125: A Better Future for Everybody

10 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Do SSDs understand the data that they write? Honda Fit cameras BMW Top View camera Classical music on Apple Music Origins of "on an infini...

124: The Tyranny of Radio

03 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Bitcode and portability Dan Gohman's mailing list post Google PNaCL Chris Lattner weighs in: 1 & 2 10.10.4 and TRIM support Overview A...

123: Imperfect Signaling Mechanism

24 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Bitcode is specific to its originally targeted CPU architecture Bruce Hoult tweet 1, tweet 2 C data types Endianness Data structure alignm...

122: My Results Were Inconclusive

19 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: John loses leaves his wallet John on losing his wallet on ATP #121 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Casey's discontinued Yubi Wallet Marco...

121: Admitted No Wrongdoing

09 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Our WWDC 2015 special, live in person from a hotel room in San Francisco: The keynote presentation Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan Natural-language search...

120: One Magical Wire

05 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Weebles Wobble Casey's temporary setup to mess with John John starts two new podcasts: Reconcilable Differences with Merlin Mann Robot or N...

119: Promoretired

29 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're joined by friend of the show Christina Warren (@film_girl). Christina writes for Mashable and hosts Rocket and Overtired. As a part o...

118: A Fistful of Apple Watches

22 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Running with Apple Watch – what if you hurt yourself? Major Indian retailer Flipkart is going app-only (via @voldyman) When do apps make...

117: You Don’t Have the Antibodies

14 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Inclusivity Twitter Accounts Everyday Sexism Brianna Wu Leigh Alexander Feminist Frequency Christina Warren Podcasts Rocket Vector iMore P...

116: Women Aren’t a Minority

08 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco defends his backyard duck from raccoons Follow-up: HFS+ and Network Attached Storage The Synology we use is the DS1813+, but the DS18...

115: Empathy for the Machine

01 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

ATP Shirt: Last chance, buy now! Available until Wednesday, 6 May. Pre-show: Neko Atsume ("the cat game") Follow-up: Bad Seagate hard drives How Hard...

114: So Far, So OK

24 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

ATP T-Shirts available until Wednesday, 6 May! Follow-up: Natural disasters, Thailand, and hard drives Synology hard drive redundancy strategies Syno...

113: Get Your Ears Ready to Hear Me Complain

16 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Donate to the EFF as a thanks for invalidating key claims of the "podcasting patent" Follow-up: There is no air gap in at least "most models" of the ...

112: The Problem Is You

09 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: There are some nice people on Twitter MacBook Pros and external displays Specs page Grandma's Boy's seat/display setup Scrubbing streaming...

111: That Big Ring Underground Somewhere in Europe

04 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Pork food safety F-16 and F/A-18 control sticks External displays and the current MacBook Pro "This never would have happened if Steve was...

110: And on That Bombshell…

27 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Pronunciation of Marques Brownlee Has Intel Skylake been delayed? Reasons for MacBook limitations 16 GB RAM 1 USB port RAM and silicon pro...

109: Bigger in the Pocket

21 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Tipster's compatriot Nintendo World Championships Stadium Events - The rare Nintendo cartridge that starts with an "s." McLaren F1 resale ...

108: Zero is Better Than One

12 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-Show: Last Exile Follow-Up: More on Crossy Road Previously on ATP 94, 95, 96 Previous interview with Crossy Road creators Anonymous tips from...

107: We Get the Most Boring Tips

05 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: How Marco and John approach owning nice things Analog(ue) Ferrari 488 GTB 488 Seat controls Follow-up: Tesla margins (as brought up by Will...

106: That’s Slightly Right

27 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Tesla and "customer sat" Tweet from Elon Musk Apple's Minivan Apple Columbus iPhone prototypes BMW X7 testing BMW i3 Apple/Tesla poaching ...

105: Do You Want to Sell Sugar Phones for the Rest of Your Life?

20 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Where does Apple use iCloud Core Data Sync? Trailers App? Keyboard Shortcuts? React in the objc.io interview with Andy Matuschak Apple mak...

104: Minutiæ

12 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up Email to the show's feedback form What's a toaster oven? The canonical "Breville" J'SON Photos.app does exist! Jason Snell's Preview Jason ...

103: An Atheist or a Howard Stern Fan

06 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Using Safari's Inspector into the iOS Simulator Follow-up: Handwriting recognition @dansherson Will Hains' Video Jumanji Inkwell John's OS X 10.2 Rev...

102: Marco Is Not a Platform

30 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Handwriting recognition with non-Roman languages (via @dansherson) Marco's possibly-hypocritical (but not hypercritical) thoughts on Apple...

101: Big Plastic Finger

23 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: 12" MacBook Air Efficient use of PCI Express lanes may be the reason for only one USB 3.1 port. RIP Thunderbolt? Sessile Thunderbolt Displ...

100: MacBook Shuffle

16 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: 🎉 Episode 100 🎉 Hypercritical Build and Analyze Roderick on the Line: A Minimum of Eels Showbot woes (again) Camel updates marked mar...

99: Pop-Up Headlights

09 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-Up: SSL In schools & corporations Gogo actually issues their own certificates to intercept SSL SOCKS Using C# outside Windows (via Frank ...

98: Landmines, Pitfalls, and Bottomless Pits

03 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: More on John's windowing strategy Application Switcher Menu (the developer's site is down) DragThing Why one would run SSL on "read-only" ...

97: You Have to Know When to Stop

26 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-Up: Google giving SSL Sites search ranking boost (via (@thesupermikey) Let's Encrypt plans to give free SSL certs Google Authenticator and han...

96: The Windows of Siracusa County

19 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Casey upgrades his podcasting setup after an awkward Apple store experience Follow-up: App Store Woes Panic's Transmit woes reversed DragonDrop Timeb...

95: The Bear Wakes Up and Bites You

11 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-Up: Ad income isn't included in Top Grossing (Joe F.) Crossy Road added a coin doubler (Steve Lubitz) and developer response Daniel Jalkut's i...

94: Spirited Defense of Pong

05 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-Up: Casey clears up his car intentions Golf R Wagon/Estate Apple using push notifications for an advertisement App Store Rule 5.6 Paul Haddad'...

93: I’m Not Running a Boarding House Here

26 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Correction on battery increases year over year Hypercritical #74 Apple's priorities and engineering tradeoffs The Prompt (succeeded by Con...

92: You Don’t Know My Pants

19 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Inside info on why iWork seems so screwed up More on open source .NET, from @Scionwest 1 2 3 4 Discourse (source) Germany's equivalent of ...

91: Press Agree to Drive

14 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Twitter's absurd mission strategy statement Demotivational Poster Should we use a carousel? Follow-up: More on app bundles Does iWork help Apple sell...

90: Speculative Abandonware

07 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Declan night one It's Andy Samberg that is part of Lonely Island, not "Adam Sandberg". Many of the videos below contain explicit lyrics. ...

89: DeLorean + McLaren

02 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Casey's new arrival Some background The Jackal Follow-Up: Marco's Retina iMacs may be on a boat The Talk Show FU: the new iMac displays are laminated...

88: Standing on Opposite Sides of the Gym

24 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: SMS Relay doesn't require Bluetooth Low Energy (Tweet by @Jury) Is a grandfathered AT&T unlimited-data plan worth keeping? Dropbox ver...

87: Not an Accurate Representation of My Mousing Skills

18 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: GameCube controllers only work with Super Smash Brothers Apple's event: Yosemite, iPad Air 2, Retina iMac Unfunny funny skits Retconned Re...

86: Moving the Party to the Bar Down the Block

08 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Trends in social networks App.net Broadcast Ello (@marcoarment, @caseyliss, @johnsiracusa, @atpfm) Cupcake The Talk Show #74: Glenn Fleishmann e...

85: The Unexpected Hard Part

03 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-Up: John defends his derision about the load-bearing finger Thumb commercial Accidental Build and Analyze about iOS 8 size classes and adaptiv...

84: The Load-Bearing Finger

26 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

83: Entering the iTouch Phase of My Life

18 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

82: The Flash Storage Is Adequate

11 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Marco and John get excited about a monitor Sexism epiphanies TiVo Mega SnapStream Kaleidescape Disc Vault Macworld layoffs Jason Snell iPh...

81: You Left Your Money in a Bank

05 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: TiVo service charges and OTA channels Frayed Lightning Cables on Tumblr Google allegedly dropped out of buying Twitch Anand Shimpi retires...

80: Tangled in Version Numbers

29 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 desi...

79: Tip Ring Ring Sleeve

21 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

78: Fleece the Whales

15 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 St...

77: Full-Stack Businessperson

08 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Casey wants to be the pre-show DJ Journey Soundtrack Transport Tycoon TT Original MIDI Music TT Remastered MP3 Music OpenTTD Follow-up: Mavericks, Gm...

76: Not Suitable for Any Purpose

30 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up on Overcast: Debug Downloads, accounts, conversions, server load Pixar and Ed Catmull get involved in wage-fixing Previously on ATP The Inc...

75: You Had Your Moment

24 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

74: One Of Us Shipped Something

18 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Showbot status and pull requests Older phones still being bought today, like the iPhone 4S Long-term device limitations and upgradeability...

73: Notifications Duck

10 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Why would someone switch from iOS to Android? Is it because of software updates? Framily Google I/O Inclusiveness Penny-farthing bicycle R...