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Episode 342: What the iPhone Means to Me - Best of MTJC

January 9th, 2022  |  1 hr 25 mins

amazon prime, app store rating, apple music, at&t, blackbox, blade runner, chris lattner, cidia, clean my mac x, dashcode, dropbox, goggle drive, icloud drive, india, iphone, ipod touch, jan 9 2007, llvm, logmein, macbook pro, man from high castle, metacircular evaluator, palm trio, philip k dick, phill schiller, prime photos, rapid weever, rogers, setapp, strombo, top gear, ulysses, wordpress

In celebration of the 15th Anniversary of the iPhone announcement at Mac World 2007, here is our 10th anniversary episode.

We were joined by Tammy Coron and Greg Heo. We followed up on Learning to Learn, a MacBook Pro saving a life, where Apple products are made and the math behind a 5-star rating. Reorded the week marking the 10 year anniversary of the iPhone announcement by Apple. So we asked listeners and friends to tell us what the iPhone has meant to them. We hear from Kim Ahlberg, Justin Stanley, Aaron Douglas, Peter Cook, George Stroumboulopoulos, Jaime Lopez Jr and Rich Turton. We talk about Phil Schiller's press tour on the iPhone early history as well as some recent turnaround in iPhone sales and market growth. We speculate Chris Lattner's move to Tesla. Cloud storage is mentioned. Picks: Kaleidoscope, Hyperdrive USB Hub

Recorded Jan 2017.

Episode 323: Await Silicon MagSafe

January 23rd, 2021  |  1 hr 18 mins

45 rpm, app library, apple silicon, async await, badges, car play, completion handler, concurrency, corelleum, dante’s inferno, gen z, general hospital, hockeyapp, infinite loop, instacart, ios dev happy hour, linux, mac apps, macbook pro, maceffects, macworld, magsafe, malbogue, mchenry, notarize, nscodersto, parking, pico projector, pioneer, reagan, rosetta 2, samsung, santa barbara, santa clara, se/30, spockcast, swift, swiftui jam, test flight, touchbar, uber, ubuntu, unroll thread, wwdc, zvon

We fact check iPad storage and WWDC security. Follow up tackles App Library, and CarPlay wireless receivers. We discuss publishing Mac apps inside and outside the Mac App Store. Experimenting with Swift async and await pattern using Xcode. Uber’s near disaster jumping onto Swift in the early days (spoilers, without doing due diligence.) MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, and iPhone Rumors, Best of CES 2021. Picks: Linux on M1, Tips and Tricks to Set Up Your Apple M1 for Development, KFC Mascot Col. Sanders Talks Malbolge Programming on General Hospital, SwiftUI Jam, iOS Dev Happy Hour, MacEffects Custom CLEAR Case for Apple Macintosh Mac SE & SE/30.

Episode 298: Double Waffle Double Patty Bacon Jam Cognac Maple Syrup

May 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 25 mins

1tb ssd, 3com, 3d printing, 3rd party library, air flight, airpods studio, alpha, analytics, appauth, appletv, arpanet, arrow, bob metcaff, budweiser stage, chinese 13 card poker, cne 2020, comments, connectix, cover art, covid-19, cursor, disk doubler, double down, double waffle double fried chicken, douglas engelbart, facebook sdk, fur babies, fusioncast, gcode, gloom haven, hair styles, hardware engineers, heart attack grill, intent, ipados, ipod, itunes, java, kernel_task, kfc, leo dion, macbook pro, magic mouse, magic trackpad 2, maltese falcon, mayor john tory, mobe+e, mountain view, nil check, oauth, on-site, ontario place, over the ear, passiondale, poker stars, rain design, rambo, roku, roscoe’s chicken & waffles, shelter in place, sketchup, slow jam, speed doubler, spindump, susan kare, swift 5.3, tapgesturercognizer, twitter, uibutton, vimy ridge, windows support, wingardium leviosa, world war one, youtube

We discuss the rumored storage on the iPhone 12 Pros. We follow up on the 142 year traditional Canadian National Exhibition is cancelling in 2020. Apple discusses some staff returning to work on site ahead of competition. We delve into how Apple has reinvented the cursor. You may want to charge your MacBook Pro 16 on the right side. We also follow up on Speed Doubler which improved the performance of the 68K emulator on Power PC. "AirPods Studio" may the name of Apple's new over ear headphones. We discuss building an adaptive button. A programming error at FaceBook knocks out Spotify, Venmo, TikTok, and other iPhone apps. Swift 5.3 attempts to add support for Windows development. We look at iOS and iPadOS 13 adoption. Unreal Engine 5 revealed for iOS and Mac, coming in 2021. Picks: Conventional Comments, FusionCast

Episode 289: Flattening the Curve

March 14th, 2020  |  1 hr 44 mins

aaron douglas, adobe connect, agnes, alt conf, alta vista, app store, ask jeeves, astropad, bell curve, blood oxygen, bmw, byte conf, carbon computing, ces, clorox, composable, conference call bingo, covid-19, craig ferguson, decorative, digital printed, don river, e3, ekg, electronic expo, fda, fitbit, foodora, forged in fire, gang of four, gaussian curve, google, grateful dead, ios 14, ipad, ipad air, iphone 4, it crowd, java, john wetton, kewl, lauren moon, lego maters, lycos, macbook pro, march break, microsoft developer, mit, mtv, mute, new rochelle, peopleware, peter capaldi, philadelphia, programmer, push notifications, quartet, raptors, reality tv, riddiculousness, rita wilson, riverdale, russian nesting dolls, santa clara county, sap concur, scott forestall, slack, sopranos, spam, spanish flu, st louis, staff pad, steve jobs, symphony pro, t-pain, tachymeter, the mast singer, tom hanks, tomomi imura, trello, watchos 6, wfh, whiteboard, who, who doctor, will arnett, wishbone ash, world war z, wwdc, yahoo

We follow up on home delivery of Apple products, music scoring apps, and Byte Conf online conference. In reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic Apple tells employees to work from home, tells consumers that they can disinfect their iPhones, Microsoft launches and online conference, and we discuss how cancelling events and self-quarantines save lives, by flattening the curve.Apple will fix third-generation iPad Air screens that permanently go black. Apple Watches may soon detect blood oxygen levels. Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 to include 'Infograph Pro' with tachymeter, Schooltime and kids mode, sleep tracking and more. Apple has updated App Store Review Guidelines on spam, Push Notifications, App Store Reviews and MDM Apps. Composable Decorators vs. Imperative Utility Methods. Whaddaya Mean, You Can’t Find Programmers? Picks: Doodles-as-A-Service Repo, The Best Advice For Remote Work Success From 10 Global Teams.

illustration by Toby Morris

Episode 256: Exploits, Recalls, Silent Updates, nil

July 13th, 2019  |  1 hr 24 mins

12 inch macbook, 13 card chinese poker, 2015 macbook pro 15, 32 gb ram, apple entrepreneur camp, binding, bondi blue imac g3, butterfly keyboard, cadisplaylink, collection types, combine, cricket, deanza college, design accelerator, face id, flint center, fontawesome, gatekeeper, gil amelio, go, halt and catch fire, her story, icloud, insider.com, ipad pro, jake, japan, john scully, logan paul, macbook escape, macbook pro, macdonalds, man in the middle, michael fassbender, michael spindler, ming chi kuo, mls, moore’s law, nsdictionary, nsnull, nstimer, objective-c, pcalc, periscope, pokertini, power mac g4 cube, privacy, property wrappers, python, recall, scissor switch keyboard, secure id, sentinel, seven eleven, sfsymbols, shanghai, sign in with apple, silent update, sir jony ive, skype, soccer, steve jobs, stranger things, swizzling, team usa, texas hold’em, tik tok, twentieth aniversary macintosh, usb mouse, usb-c, vine, webex, women@wwdc, zinga poker, zoom

We follow up on Sir Jony Ive's early innovations; Power Mac G4 Cube, Twentieth Anniversary Mac and USB (Hockey Puck) Mouse. Tim rememberers CADisplayLink. We also follow up on Apple's Design and Development Accelerator in Shanghai, a new scissor switch keyboard is coming for the MacBook Pro, and 4 major reasons why the MacBook Pro's suck. Apple discontinues the 12-inch MacBook and bumps up the MacBook Air with TueTone and adds TouchBar to the entry level MacBook Pro 13. Apple also cut SSD prices in half. The birthplace of the Mac & iPhone Flint Centre is to be demolished. Apple pushes a silent update to the Zoom apps. We discuss the 2015 MacBook Pro Battery Recall Program. 7-Eleven Japan shut down its mobile payment app. Face ID and Touch ID might be used to sign onto iCloud in iOS 13 Beta. Apple to ditch FaceID with through-screen Touch ID? Swift Property Wrappers by NSHipster. Picks: Stranger Things-inspired retro trip to Windows 1.11, Apple’s Texas Hold’em game returns to the iPhone, SF Symbols Reference, TikTok, nil. We also reminisce about Objective-C collections.

Episode 205: The Norwegian Moose

July 28th, 2018  |  1 hr 11 mins

be my eyes, beyond meat, braille, brew2you, canadian dollar bills, cbc spark, cheezies, china, core i7, core i9, danny devito, edge walk, flixel, foxcon, gluten free, grand canyon, interac, iphone, john a. macdonald, mac iifx, macbook pro, macintosh display card 8•24 gc, mr spock 5 dollar bill, norwegian maple, plant-based, rhea perlman, safeway, sky walk at eagle point, sugar maple, t2, tinkerbell, twitter, veggie grill, venmo

We answer #askMTJC about Touch Bar tricks and Canadian geography. We fact check on Roger's Centre, Flixel subscriptions and the dots on Canadian Currency. We follow up on the new MacBook Pro keyboard, a fix for the heat based slow downs, as well as, Apple's new T2 chip causing crashing and Twitter's new requirements for developers. You can use the Apple Business Chat to order beer and water to your seat at Citizens Bank Park. NSHipster has a new article on Password Rules. iPhones, Apple Watches and Fibit devices can be hit by incoming US $500B tariffs on China. Picks: ShowSingleTouches on Simulator, LifetimeTracker, MacKiDo/CodeNames/DeveloperCDs. In the After Show we discuss Toronto leads Tech Jobs and Jaime's experience with Beyond Meat.

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 144: Greg Regrets the Error

May 20th, 2017  |  1 hr 22 mins

360idev, amazon prime, askmtjc, big lebowski, borders, cowboy mouth, drobo, firefly, framework, google io, handbrake, hulu, kotlin, macbook pro, objective-c, panic, swift 4, the ranch, toggl, wwdc

Once again we are joined by Tammy Coron and Greg Heo as we answer #askMTJC questions about Objective-C framework tutorials and which Drobo to buy. We follow up rumors of Amazon Prime video coming to Apple TV, the Handbrake hack resulting in Panic software being stolen and potential issues crossing the borders with smart phones. We also follow up on rumors of MacBook Pro updates coming to WWDC. We discuss highlights of announcements from Google I/O's keynote. We take a look at what's coming in Swift 4. Picks: Kotlin For Android: An Introduction, Toggl - the Ultimate Timer, An Xcode playground showing off the new features in Swift 4.0.

Episode 126: What the iPhone Means to Me

January 12th, 2017  |  1 hr 25 mins

apple music, blackbox, chris lattner, cidia, google drive, icloud drive, india, iphone, ipod touch, macbook pro, prime photos, ratings, setapp, strombo, wordpress

This week we are joined by Tammy Coron and Greg Heo. We follow up on Learning to Learn, a MacBook Pro saving a life, where Apple products are made and the math behind a 5-star rating. This week marked the 10 year anniversary of the iPhone announcement by Apple. So we asked listeners and friends to tell us what the iPhone has meant to them. We hear from Kim Ahlberg, Justin Stanley, Aaron Douglas, Peter Cook, George Stroumboulopoulos, Jaime Lopez Jr and Rich Turton. We talk about Phil Schiller's press tour on the iPhone early history as well as some recent turnaround in iPhone sales and market growth. We speculate Chris Lattner's move to Tesla. Cloud storage is mentioned. Picks: Kaleidoscope, Hyperdrive USB Hub

Episode 125: Instant Gratification

January 7th, 2017  |  1 hr 21 mins

airpods, azores, carrie fisher, consumer reports, core data, coursera, macbook pro, machine learning, osstatus, swift style, touchbar

We start off the show following up on the 2016 MacBook Pros and Consumer Reports poor rating due to battery issues. Tim gives his initial hands on impressions. We discuss theft-proofing the AirPod cases. We cover Core Data code generation in Xcode 8.2. Where iPhones are manufactured and assembled is discussed in the light of pressure by India on Apple. Picks: OSStatus.com, Swift Style - An Opinionated Guide to an Opinionated Language, How To Prevent Memory Leaks In Swift Closures and Neural Networks for Machine Learning.