111: ‘12 Hours a Day’ With Guest John Moltz
The Talk Show With John Gruber
02/23/15
•119m
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Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch; rumors that Apple is working on a secret car project; our love of old Mac hardware; and a long discussion on Ian Parker’s extraordinary New Yorker profile of Jony Ive and his design team at Apple.
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February 13, 2015
•128m
Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about movies and shit.
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- The Carson Podcast.
- PBS Masters special on Johnny Carson. If you haven’t seen this, watch it. If you have seen it, watch it again. Trust me.
- Henry Bushkin’s book on Johnny Carson.
- Dustin Curtis: “Privacy vs. User Experience”.
- The Wisdom of Insecurity.
- Kids in Mind.
- Phthalates.
- From The Talk Show archive: “H.R. Fluffypuff”.
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112: ‘Retina Quality’ With Guest Paul Kafasis
March 4, 2015
•142m
Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include the new Pebble Time watch, the imminent arrival of Apple Watch, Paul’s clever new doorbell (and unfortunate refrigerator situation), a little bit of baseball, and why I can’t attend next week’s Apple event in San Francisco.
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- MacRumors “speculative pricing” forum posting that social media turned into a “leaked price list from Apple”.
- Ring, Paul’s clever new doorbell.
- Just The Tip, Paul’s podcast with my wife, Amy Jane Gruber.
- Paul, writing at One Foot Tsunami, on Apple’s continued disregard for the Unicode 7 “Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended” emoji glyph, arguably the most pressing technical issue facing Apple and its users today.
- Apple’s response to Paul's Radar on the “Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended” emoji.
- Audio Hijack 3, Rogue Amoeba’s new update to their excellent audio recording app for Mac.
- Interesting ESPN feature on Alex Rodriguez’s return to baseball.
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