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Episode 299: WWDC 2020 Wishlist

May 23rd, 2020  |  1 hr 35 mins

1000 cuts, a11y, abs, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, air power, apple consultant network, apple europe, apple glass, becky hansmeyer, beos, brontosaurus, chromium, deep double decent, dino-riders, find my app, float16, fluid framework, foot gun, hat block, hayward fault, home pod, hype cycle, intercom, ios 13.5, jack dorsey, jean louis gassee, joe rogen, jon prosser, leo dion, lidar, linux for windows, lost wax, macworld, memorial day, microsoft build, middle island, milliner, mortal kombat, multi pattern catch clauses, multiple trailing closures, object linking & embedding, ok production, open doc, pla, point pelee, polylactic acid, project catalyst, project reunion, raptors, san andres, split window, square, steve jobs, swamp of dispair, swift 5.3, swift package manager, swift to, ultimaker, victoria day, who wants to be a millionaire, work from home, xcode 11.5, zvon petric

We fact check Leo Dion, 3D printing with PLA and ABS. AskMTJC takes us down the rabbit hole from Hype Cycles to ML modeling. Who knew? There are 27 US states are partially north of Canada's southern point. We recap Microsoft Build 2020: Project Reunion will unify desktop and mobile, Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids, and bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10. What’s new in Swift 5.3? — take two. Becky Hansmeyer's WWDC 2020 Wishlist. Big Tech says, Work From Home For Rest Of Year. Apple details its approach to safety in retail stores, and plans to reopen more than 25 US locations next week. Leaker claims to have seen “Apple Glass” AR glasses, details how they’ll work. Facebook Shops is coming. Picks: Writing Great iOS Accessibility Labels, How to prepare for losing your programming job, Tim vs Apple Music and using multiple Home Pods, Tracking your iPhone.

This week's final pass edit was done on my Kitchen Home Pod.

Episode 279: The Trough of Disillusionment

December 21st, 2019  |  1 hr 54 mins

1password, 64-bit a7, air pods, air power, amiga, angela arehns, apfs, apple card, apple music, apple news, apple park, apple pay, apple pencil, apple store, apple tv, apple watch series 5, appletv apps, arkit, atari 800, atp, basic, bbedit, beats, brian cox, butterfly switch, c++, carekit, cdev, christmas story, classroom kit, commodore pet, continuity, coreml, cupertino, disktop, eaton centre apple store, et, faceid, fork, gremlins, home pod, homekit, hype cycle, ibm, imac pro, inits, ios 13.3, ios 7, ios in the car, ipad mini, ipad pro, ipados, iphone 11, iphone 11 pro, iphone 4, iphone 5c, iphone 6 plus, iphone se, iphone x, keyboard, kitura, lifelabs, lightening, mac mini, mac osx lion, mac pro, macbook, macbook air, macbook pro 16, macbook pro retina, macintosh ii, macos, maps, mavericks, movies that made us, multi finder, national lampoon, new zealand herald, nfc, picard, plateau of productivity, powermac 7100, privacy, rene richie, rf modulator, rick and morty, ring camera, rocky horror picture show, router, scott forestall, server side swift, short trek, shortcuts, simon syneck, siri, slope of enlightenment, star wars, steve jobs theater, swift for good, swift playgrounds, swift.org, swiftui, tcc, the goonies, the trough of disillusionment, today at apple, totp, toys that made us, transparency consent control, uwb, voice control, walt mossburg, watchos, webauthn, wwdc, xeon, yubikey

As the 2010's end, we debate when the decade ends. We fact check iOS 13.3's fix on UWB bug and ATP increments. We follow up on TCC, and the $100K Mac Pro. iDevices get key-based protection, webAuthn, IBM Workgroup Updates on Swift.org, Hype Cycles, and a cheaper Apple Arcade cost are also covered. We look back at the last 10 years of Apple innovation, news and changes. Amazon, Google, Apple and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard. Picks: Swift For Good, Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows.

Episode 247: The Rental Economy

May 17th, 2019  |  54 mins 42 secs

adobe, affinity designer, affinity photo, air pods, air power, andy inakho, app store, app store subscriptions, apple park, apple store, apple t2, apple tv for ios, apple watch, becky hansmeyer, car2go, cascade lake x, chargers, china, cinemagraph, comcast, conf friends for wwdc, conspicuous disclaimer, creative cloud, cs6, cupertino city council, dave delong, dim tai fung, disney, dolby, flixel, garage band, gay pride, google playstore, griffin imic, hbo, hulu, iphone sdk, irig, logic pro x, lyft, mac pro, macworld, mark pavlidis, mini keg, monitor, mpow, nbc universal, netflix, night of dim sum, nomad, parties, photoshop for ipad, podcasting, power beats pro, promoted subscriptions, rainbow bandstand, rental economy, rouge podcaster, samsung smart tv, showtime, starbucks, steve jobs, stock market, supreme court, tacow, tariffs, today at apple, trials, uber ipo, upgrades, watchos, web objects, whatsapp, zip car

In 2011, Steve Jobs presented Apple Park plans. App Store Pricing. Apple Launches TV App with iOS 12.2. Adobe opens Photoshop for iPad beta signups. WhatsApp discovers 'targeted' surveillance attack. The US Supreme Court allows iPhone users to sue over AppStore monopoly. New Pride faces added to Apple Watch. US/China Trade War may affect Apple Chargers and Cases. Mac Pro iffy renderings leaked. Picks: Today At Apple adds podcasting class, Adobe warns using older versions of their apps may open users to lawsuits, and Nomad base station wireless hub, Mark Pavlidis - App Store Subscriptions – Condensed Edition.

Episode 241: Artisanal Enums

April 7th, 2019  |  1 hr 1 min

air pods, air power, almond braces, anaglyphs, apple care, avengers: end game, black air pods, captain marvel, codemobileuk, colorware, concert for george, conde nast, cult of mac, d-box, debian, disk utility, disk warrior, drupa, egon spengler, erica sadun, hawaii, iap, ibanez, icloud, imakoo, interoperability, ipad, iphone xi, james dempsey, jason mewes, jennifer bailey, joaquin pheonix, joker, kevin smith, la times, mac iicx, macworld 2010, mklinux, new jersey, news+, newton, norton utilities, portrait mode, power beats pro, quadra 700, raywenderlich podcast, retrospect, russian doll, samsung, seattle, shazam, ssd, swift style, symantec, terry gilliam, the guardian, the secret stash, time machine, ukulele, umbrella academy, utf8, wasserman, wwdc

MTJC listeners are spotted at Codemobile UK. Apple throws in the towel on the Air Power. Facebook developer partners abandon user's data on AWS. News+ gains 200,000 early users in a week. ColorWare is Now Selling Apple's AirPods in 58 Colors. Leaked iPhone 11 schematics seem to support square triple-camera design. Swift 5 includes UTF-8 String. Samsung offering trade ins on Apple phone for discounts. Powerbeats Pro announced. Picks: Swift Style, 2nd Ed. Erica Sadun

Episode 240: Titanium Services

March 30th, 2019  |  1 hr 27 mins

abi stability, advanced swift, air pods, air power, amazon fire, apple arcade, apple card, apple network, apple news+, apple tv+, applecare+, applepay transit, bank of america, boar, butterfly keyboard, duckduckgo, ekg, facebook, fintech, fontbook, giraffe, goldman sachs, google chrome, google i/o, ifixit, ios conf, john sundell, jp morgan chase, machack, magazines, make magazine, nab, nwlistener, owl, passwords, presto, ray fix, rokuu, roundabout, samsung, sean allen, shark, speilberg, stadia, swift 5, texture, the star, true type format, try, tunnel bear, tv app, vpn, wallet, wells fargo, wwdc, zephyr

We fact check in the OG Mac resolution. We follow up on the WWDC lottery results and public WIFI. Google Chrome adds DuckDuckGo as a default search option. Original Air Pod batteries are wearing out. Apple apologizes for the butterfly keyboard. MTJC WWDC Lottery T-Shirts removed from some sites but still available. Facebook says it stored millions of passwords as plain test. Greg tweets about the goodness coming with Swift 5. iOS 12.2 has been released to support new services. Apple announces Apple News+, Apple Pay, Apple Card, Apple Arcade, Apple TV Channels, and Apple TV+. We discuss the new services, interest rates, availability outside the US. Picks: iOSCon 2019 - The conference for iOS and Swift Developers, The Swift Programing Guide - 5th Edition, Advanced Swift: Protocol Oriented Programming, Network.framework, 12.3 Beta releases.

Episode 234: It's Mostly Obfuscated

February 16th, 2019  |  1 hr 10 mins

1password, 2fa, ahmet, air canada, air power, aribnb, authy, beer hunter, bug bounty, charles proxy, diva, don ross, dweezil, expedia, exploits, family day, forbes, glassbox, google authenticator, group facetime, hipaa, huawei, india pale ale, john reid, john sundel, kotlin, lagunitas, lincoln, march 25, marcin krzyzanowski, moon zappa, mostly obfuscated, patio furniture, paul hudson, pliny the younger, rica-a-roni, russian river brewing company, services, subscriptions, texture, the app analyst, the ban hammer, the rolling stones, uncle ben’s rice, untapped, veterans affairs, washinton

Apple will reward teen who reported the Group FaceTime bug in the follow up. As well, porn and gambling are sneaking apps onto the App Store and software pirates are putting up hacked apps. Apple will host an announcement on March 25, 2019. WWDC 2019 Dates have been uncovered. Apple's sale in China were horrendous. Apple will require Two Factor Authentication on developer accounts. Many popular apps are recording your screen activity. As a result Apple demands that apps disclose or remove screen recording code. Apple announces Health Records feature coming to veterans. Picks: DevFest Baltics 2018 talks, Pliny the Younger.

Episode 218: Golfing With the Blue Jays

October 27th, 2018  |  1 hr 3 mins

5g, air power, amber mac, andrew jassy, android, apple pencil, at&t, baby boomer, beautygate, becky, bloomberg, bose, boston red socks, cbs allaccess, cdmi, debugging, dep, derek selander, dlc, dr who, duke of york, edm, eec, emily litella, face id, g3, game of thrones, gdpr, gen x, generation axe, george r r murray, golfing with the blue jays, gsm, hawkeye access, hi-def, holland, ibm, ipad pro, iphone 5, iphone xr, jamf, jetbrains, johnny galecki, lldb, lte, mac pro, macbook, macbook air, mdm, milennial, mobile world congress, mud’s women, new amsterdam, new york, new york times, october 30, privacy, reverse engineer, rocksmith 2014, roseanne, sarah gilbert, satisfaction, skydio, star trek, steve vai, stubhub, supergirl, tap tap, tapulus, texas tea, the connors, tim cook, true depth, ubisoft, world series, wwdc mmxiii, young sheldon

We follow up on not using Facebook for logins and Apple and AWS request the Bloomberg retract the Chinese Spy Chip story. Apple is working on a patch for the #Beautygate — where the iPhone XS is over beautifying portrait photos. We revisit Swift & Objective-C usage. The October 30th event will apparently introduce 2 new iPad Pros, iPad Mini, two iMacs and possibly a new MacBook. IBM open sources their Mac@IBM configuration. Tim Cook calls for strong US Privacy legislation. We touch on the upcoming 5G mobile service. Picks: Xcode 10 patches to Advanced Apple Debugging & Reverse Engineering, Hawkeye Access.

Episode 203: One and Done!

July 14th, 2018  |  52 mins

10 years old, 60 minutes, 7th guest, air pods, air power, alex andrews, alto’s adventure, app store, arduino, blynk, braile, camera connection kit, chris liscio, christian pulisic, cnib, code hinting, designatednerd, ellen shapiro, emily litella, enum, fallout shelter, foo fighters, gif, gijoe, gilead, gretzky, handmaid’s tail, her story, home pod, ios 11.4.1, issue navigator, james thompson, kindle ereader, leaky wellington, live listen, macbook, macbook air, macbook pro, maker festival, maker night, margret atwood, mini metro, nunavut, old man’s journey, one and done, orbit reader, orbit research, pcalc, puerto rico, qi, rei vilo, shazam, shield, surface go, ten ketles, the room, top 10 wwdc videos, transcripts, usb restricted mode, world cup, yukon territories

This week we follow up on Air Pods as hearing aids and new hardware predictions for fall release. NB: This episode was recorded one day before Apple refreshed the MacBook lineup. The App Store Turns 10 and we reflect on our experiences and this very podcast's existence. We look at the 25 top games for commuters. Apple's iOS 11.4.1 now blocks passcode cracking tools. Picks: Stupid Enum Tricks in Swift and Kotlin, filtering Xcode warnings and errors, WWDC18 Video Transcripts Now Available and embedXcode.

Episode 201: Who Are you People!?

June 30th, 2018  |  1 hr 44 mins

73, air power, ash furrow, beyond meat, bill coron, black plague, butterfly keys, c++, cement shoes, cocos 2d, ebola, eric idle, excel, fireside.fm, gary shandling, gather around children, geoffrey tambor, google sheets, harley quinn, how do you find the time to do the things that you do?, impossible burger, irving stone, isle sur la sorge, katamari damacy, king crimson, kirk douglas, lexington, loving vincent, lust for life, margot roby, mike daley, paintcode, paris, playdead inside, pond scrum, prime number, scenekit, secure enclave, shawn marston, sky box, sleeping with the fishes, spockcast, suicide squad, the strombo show, tinnitis, udemy, uialertcontroller, unity, vincent, vincent van gogh, welland canal

This week we look at hardware upgrade plans. We look at updating apps and choosing programming languages and frameworks. We follow up on Apple's repair program for faulty keyboards on MacBooks and MacBook Pros, as well as Airbnb's posts about withdrawing from React Native. Apple is hit with fines over "Error 53". Ustwo publishes a report on the first year of Monument Valley 2. Pick: Step into Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night and stay a while. Check it out on the Oculus Go! We discuss how to manage tasks and stay true to your goals. We also discuss the runners up for Top WWDC Videos.