359: ‘Big Booger Came After You’, With Merlin Mann
The Talk Show With John Gruber
10/12/22
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Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about AI image generation (along with a few asides).
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- Stable Diffusion.
- Diffusion Bee: easily install and run on a Mac.
- Midjourney.
- Merlin’s Wisdom Project.
- Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story on Netflix.
- The Offer on Paramount+.
- Do By Friday — Merlin’s weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox.
- Reconcilable Differences — Merlin’s podcast with John Siracusa.
- Seki Edge Nail Clippers, made in Japan.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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358: ‘Double-Digit Domains’, With Paul Kafasis
September 30, 2022
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Paul Kafasis returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 14 Pro, Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods Pro, and Rogue Amoeba's 20th anniversary.
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Links:
- Celebrate Rogue Amoeba’s 20th Anniversary.
- The Design of Audio Hijack 4.
- Rogue Amoeba: “Our Upgrade Philosophy”.
- Custom-engraved AirPods Pro cases show up with the engraving on-screen in iOS.
- Yours truly’s Apple Watch Ultra review.
- Remembering “SportsCenter’s Dick Trickle”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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360: ‘Neither Fish Nor Fowl’, With Jason Snell
October 25, 2022
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Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new 10th-gen iPad and M2 iPads Pro.
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Links:
- Jason’s review of the new iPads.
- Jason’s take on the iPad announcements: “The iPad’s Erratic Odyssey Continues”.
- Yours truly’s take on the announcements last week: “The iPad Lineup Is, Like, Growing Out Its Bangs or Something and Looks a Little Weird Right Now, but Apple TV Has Been Going to the Gym and Looks Great”.
- New $70 Logitech Crayon.
- Apple’s $9 USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter.
- Apple’s growing array of iPad keyboards.
- Apple’s eMac — an iMac-like Mac with a CRT display for education that was introduced in 2002.
- Joe Rosensteel on the new Apple TV 4K hardware.
- Good explainer on Matter from The Verge.
- Steven Troughton-Smith’s ideas for improving Stage Manager on iPadOS.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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