Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco's new-new-new app for aligning double-ender podcast tracks. Economic considerations and options for releasing an app that's extremely helpful to a very small number of people. Why Marco has been procrastinating from the big app by making small apps. Good app names as motivation. Desktop Twitter distraction and measuring desktop productivity with RescueTime . Casey's sales of Fast Text since...

Non-developers might want to skip the first 35 minutes: a technical discussion of FMDB , SQLite, and implementing your own generic "model" class. Plus: Casey finally gets to talk about .NET. (Note from Marco: The day after recording, I rewrote my model class to rely on KVC instead of runtime tricks and reflection. Please email Casey.) The types of programmers who can and should write their own low...

FU: iSCSI and network Time Machine. iFixit teardown of the new AirPort Extreme . Apple's extended Developer Center downtime. (Note: we recorded this before we knew why it was down.) _DavidSmith on Logic X's pricing and what this might indicate for future App Store upgrades. Whether upgrade pricing is best for consumers, and the upgrade-pricing train. iOS developers acting like the RIAA in 2002. Th...

Marco's new-new app, Bugshot , and some of its design decisions. Cutting features from 1.0 and trying to keep Bugshot from taking too much time. Bugshot gets the John Siracusa treatment. Exploring NAS options and initial impressions of the Synology DS1813+ . Economics of FreeNAS or Mac Mini alternatives. iSCSI on Macs: the free $89 globalSAN initiator and the $195 ATTO initiator , which comes reco...

iWatch follow-up. Alex Eckermann on Bluetooth Low Energy and iWatch . Eric Welander's thoughts on Siri for iWatch . iWatch as a means of identity . How regular people use iOS devices, as witnessed by John. Multitasking-switcher implications in iOS 7. iCloud's priority within Apple. Dropbox Datastore API , including its JavaScript API . Does the Datastore API obviate the need for a web service? Ner...

Apple's Yves Saint Laurent hire and the difficulty in predicting an "iWatch". Technological Conservatism . Panic's Lightning-to-HDMI-cable discovery . Chris Harris on iOS 7 icons . "Free-to-play" games. Coding for practice, and learning new APIs or languages. Overly specialized apps. Glympse (Casey's road-trip-tracking app). Feed Wrangler by _DavidSmith as a Google Reader replacement that's compat...

John's review progress and show-duration predictors. The WWDC 2013 intro video . ( Siri's WWDC 2012 intro ) Apple's " Making a Difference, One App at a Time " video. "Designed by Apple in California". "Jobs" (Ashton Kutcher) trailer . Why developers should (or shouldn't) require iOS 7 this fall. "The Transporter" series . iOS 7 Calendar app UI . Cool-looking vs. well-designed. Our iTunes reviews....

Casey's fans at WWDC. Mac Pro followup. ( John's halo-car post ) The Xbox 180. Revisiting the potential for a larger-screen iPhone after having seen iOS 7. Predicting iOS 7 adoption. Neven Mrgan on iOS 7's icon grid and a rebuttal . New Mac Pro appears in Geekbench parallelize.c / xargs parallel processing Sponsored by: Squarespace : The all-in-one platform that makes it easy to create your own we...

Special early WWDC episode this week: Reactions to the keynote. New Mac Pro Initial iOS 7 design impressions. Sponsored by: Backblaze : Easy, unlimited online backup for just $5 per month. Windows Azure Mobile Services : Build a cloud-connected iOS app faster and easier.

Opening theme by Larry King ( @laking ). The case for a modernized AppKit in OS X 10.9 a la Chameleon / TwUI . The lack of official Apple Objective-C wrappers around old C APIs such as Keychain and Address Book. Springboard #10 SMOP Underscore Should Apple add type inference to Objective-C? Haswell Retina MacBook Pro predictions and the possibility of having only the integrated GPU in the 15". gfx...

Why Marco sold The Magazine . Teasing apps before they're out, building hype, and Pit Pass . Tim Cook at AllThingsD . Cook's presence and speaking style. What Cook implicitly said about future Apple products. WWDC predictions for OS X. Sponsored by: Oxygene for Cocoa : Use coupon code ATP13 for 20% off. Soulver : The essential calculator-spreadsheet-notepad hybrid.

Marco visits Siracusa's house and the car-assaulting tree . Transcendental Money . Square Cash . B2W 120 on financial "safety nets" . Tumblr, Yahoo, and not screwing it up. Cloud hosting and moving up the stack. The modern game console's role. the Xbox One's hardware design , and the messy world of TV-connected boxes. Sponsored by: Squarespace : Use coupon code ATP5 for 10% off. Windows Azure Mobi...

Our theme song by Jonathan Mann -- follow his Song A Day on YouTube , and check out his site if you or your company would like a catchy, fun song. Thanks for the ATP theme song, Jonathan! Casey and Marco get deluged with to-do app recommendations. The difficulty in getting people to change to a new app, but conversely, the potential success for slightly differentiated apps in an otherwise crowded...

FU on Apple's tick-tock pattern . Marco's PHP framework and sponsor-tracking web app, and why both exist. Usability and security implications of passwordless login systems. The Mac Mini's seemingly accidental success. Podcasters who hate the word "podcast" , its quality connotation, efforts to invent alternative names , and barriers to entry. Brent Simmons' 30 Minutes To Sync proposal. Building we...

The WWDC ticket lottery and potential solutions , or a merit system . Why Marco sold Instapaper . ( See also .) Prospects for replacing Instapaper's income. Speculating on today's app market. The Magazine 's app and Newsstand quality. Motivation, development, and homework. iOS 7's rumored visual overhaul and other speculation. The transition away from Steve Jobs' influence. What's left for iOS 7 t...

Laptops in school. Getting a tech job with and without a college degree. Running mail servers in today's spam environment. Steve Jobs' unauthorized talking points. The WWDC announcement and trying to get tickets. Going to WWDC vs. a ticketless trip vs. watching the videos at home. Apple's Q2 earnings and hints dropped during the call. The tech industry's holding pattern with bored consumers. Marco...

Why are PC sales down? Why and when people have bought new PCs in the past. Forgoing or neglecting PCs today. PCs in businesses. Apple and IT departments. Last decade's Tablet PCs. The outlook for Windows 8 tablets in businesses. What will change if Microsoft Office is released for iOS? What AirPrint and black CD-Rs have in common. Still using (and abusing) Jonathan Mann's awesome ending song . Fo...

Giving Dave Morin the benefit of the doubt on that Vanity Fair trainwreck . Who Facebook Home is for and why Facebook made it. Whether Facebook, Amazon, Samsung, etc. could or should make their own OS or maintain completely diverged Android forks. Google forking WebKit , Chrome vs. Safari, and the fork's likely implications for Apple and web developers. Debug #11: Don Melton and Safari WebKit cont...

Summly's acquisition by Yahoo, and what could have justified its price. ( Marco , WSJ ) The quality of speech recognition. Challenges of big tech companies such as Apple hiring and retaining great talent. Why iCloud sync works so badly for developers and whether it's fixable. Why developers shouldn't use iCloud even if it worked. Jonathan Mann's ATP Ending Theme Song and the More Bleeps version ....

How Marco buys a TV (unlike how John does ). Regular people noticing and caring about high-DPI screens. The amazing Mac lineup that few care about. Which Mac would we tell people to buy? Marco revisits the Microsoft Store . The Surface Pro's uniqueness. Why GarageBand's adoption of Audiobus is so interesting. How exposed filesystems and iCloud's document model both fail users. Sponsored by Squares...

The upcoming Google Reader shutdown. The market for RSS today, and the way forward. Client-side vs. server-side feed crawling. Addressing excessive demand for WWDC and Google I/O tickets. Apple pessimism is at an all-time high, even in the mainstream. What could Apple do to turn the pessimism around? Apple and web services. The Apple TV's interesting new A5. Diversifying the iPhone line.

The role of the Mac Pro today. How Apple might manage the launch of a bigger iPhone. App design and auto-layout if the iPhone moves to multiple sizes and resolutions. Visual Studio's learning curve vs. Xcode and Interface Builder. The future of Objective C and the challenge of migrating a platform's API to a new language.

The Nifty MiniDrive The challenges of small-camera design Sony RX1 and Sony's camera-business revival Apple in the gaming market and the evolution of casual gaming Solitaire, Minesweeper, and the first time anyone has mentioned FreeCell in 2013 The bad old days of Game Boys, lead-acid "portable" computers, and mouse-pointer trails iOS' refusal to let you pick default browser, email client, calenda...

The PS4 announcement, the Xbox 1, old LAN gaming, Transport Tycoon, early CD-ROM adventure games, dumping old games onto iOS, dial-up modems, and the annoyance of gaming occasionally on a modern console.

Speculation on what a bigger iPhone's screen might be and why.