283: ‘Some Kind of Sandwich’ With Dieter Bohn
The Talk Show With John Gruber
04/30/20
•110m
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Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about the iPad Magic Keyboard, the new iPhone SE, and the state of Android flagship phones.
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Links:
- Dieter’s review of the iPad Magic Keyboard.
- My review of the iPad Magic Keyboard.
- Dieter’s review of the iPhone SE.
- My review of the new iPhone SE.
- Dieter’s review of the OnePlus 8 Pro.
- Samsung Galaxy S20 and S20 Ultra reviews.
- Federico Vittici’s Shortcuts shortcut for jumping to the Hardware Keyboard section of Settings.
- Dr. Drang’s pre-shipping estimates of the iPad Magic Keyboard weights.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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282: ‘Everybody Is an Expert’ With Joanna Stern
April 14, 2020
•131m
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about working from home, the utter suckitude of laptop webcams, the new MacBook Air, and Face ID in our new world of face-mask-wearing.
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Links:
- Joanna’s “How to Make an iPad Stand” video.
- Joanna’s review of the new Macbook Air, and her video on the state of laptop webcams.
- My review of the new MacBook Air.
- Joanna’s column (and video) on Face ID’s inability to recognize us while wearing face masks.
- Joanna’s iPhone X review from 2017, wherein she tried to fool Face ID with 3D-printed faces.
- Yours truly back in August 2017: “Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs”.
- WWDC 2018: Apple announces favicons in Safari tabs.
- Webcams Have Become Impossible to Find, and Prices Are Skyrocketing”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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284: ‘30 Years of TidBITS’ With Adam Engst
May 8, 2020
•114m
Special guest Adam Engst joins the show to celebrate 30 years of TidBITS -- the only publication going strong today that started as a weekly HyperCard stack.
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Links:
- Adam Engst: “TidBITS Marks Its 30th Anniversary in a Time of Pandemic”.
- “Info-Mac is a discussion forum for Apple users as well as an archive of online content dating back to 1984.”
- The Mac compression wars: Raymond Lau’s StuffIt vs. Bill Goodman’s Compact Pro. I was a Compact Pro man, myself.
- The official Compact Pro website is, amazingly, still up.
- TidBITS issue 42, 11 February 1991: “Compression Wars”. That’s right, 1991.
- TidBITS’s coverage of MacHack over the years.
- My 1994 letter to Andy Ihnatko’s Help Desk column in MacUser magazine.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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