Accidental Tech Podcast

611: RAM Christmas

October 31, 2024 02:22:30 • Download (137 MB)

The new Mac Mini, updated iMacs and MacBook Pros, putting things on bottoms, and some fun surprises.

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October 24, 2024 02:01:00 • Download (117 MB)

Who will be the last person in the world using Quicksilver? We'll give you one guess.

Pre-show: We’re still grumpy about the most recent member’s special
Follow-up:
- New iPad Mini
  - “Jelly Scrolling” is fixed?
    - David Pierce disagrees though
- Submerged and Vision Pro demos (via Kevin Markham)
  - Apple may stop producing Vision Pro soon?
- Some follow-up from the most recent member’s special
- Photo editing
  - Exposing to the right
    - DPReview
    - More via Sam Doran
  - Color spaces
    - …are only applicable on JPEGs (via Léo Natan)
    - Daniel Laan’s take
  - What do we do with our computer’s color tweaks while editing (via Josh Harris)
  - John’s thoughts on cropping
- Parallelizing file compression/decompression
  - unxip (via Mihai Parparita)
  - More from unxip author Saagar Jha
  - Apple Archive (see also aa)
- “No hats, no walkmen” (via Dan Pierce)
iPhone SE 4 rumors
- Aside: iPhone product mix from ATP #609 Overtime
- Case leak
October Macs? 🧐
Ask ATP:
- How do we protect sensitive information like driver’s licenses? (via Jochen Marschall)
- How do we assist parents with account management and legacy planning? (via Kaleb)
- How do we clean our keyboards‽ (via Randall Miller)
  - KeyboardCleanTool
Post-show: John’s Quicksilver update
- Alfred
- LaunchBar
- Raycast
Members-only ATP Overtime: What even is a photo, anyway?

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October 17, 2024 02:02:14 • Download (118 MB)

Submerged, the new iPad Mini, getting started with photo editing, and a weird new driver-assist mode.

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October 15, 2024

In the entire history of this show, John has never been so wrong.

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October 10, 2024 01:55:38 • Download (112 MB)

The Google ruling, sports (?), PC-gaming laptops over time, and whether non-case iPhone cases can tempt case-less Casey Liss.

Follow-up:
- NotebookLM podcast
- Camera Control button material
- iPhone case suggestions
  - Spigen Ultra Hybrid T MagFit
  - Arc Pulse
  - Leather backs
    - Suti
    - Nomad
    - Atom Studios
- Sleep-tagging app suggestions
- Windows anti-malware app suggestions
- Adaptive Transparency report
- Wireless phone recovery
  - 9to5Mac screenshot
- End ↔ end encryption coming for iPhone ↔ Android RCS messages
- More tweaks to screen recording prompts
  - Jason’s toot
- Hotkey registration in Sequoia
  - Response from Apple frameworks engineer
- Liquid detection in Sequoia
Epic gets a win against Google
Apple nopes out of OpenAI investment
Ask ATP:
- Will John buy the new $700 Playstation Pro?
- Have the Vehicle Motion Cues helped John’s motion sickness? (via Justin Waring)
- When will the first true “built from the ground up for AI” phone be? (via Neil McGregor)
- Is it time to move to Passkeys?
  - Ricky’s post
Post-show: Adam’s gaming PC adventures
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI moats & trade secrets
- OpenAI doesn’t want anyone to know what o1 is “thinking”

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