Episode 72

72: Take Your Co-Host To Work Day

Follow-up from doctors and Android enthusiasts, Aperture and iPhoto parking their sunsets into Photos for Mac, and designing for aesthetics over usefulness.

Accidental Tech Podcast · ATP

July 3, 20141h 51m

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Show Notes

Pre-Show:
- Showbot is back, and it has Zarro Boogs.
Follow-up:
- Don Lodsky points us to a sample of Google's new web design for desktop
- A brief meta-discussion about what we cover, how we cover it, and what being an "expert" is
- Feedback on potential wearables from Ben Griffel, biomedical engineer, and Per Östergren, MD
Aperture and iPhoto's brands were sunset
- Zoomed Photos UI screenshot
- Apple tells Ars Technica of "plans for professional-grade features such as image search, editing, effects, and most notably, third-party extensibility."
- We channel our our inner Prompt and discuss photo management techniques
Wonky design choices
- Jim Ray's tweet that started the conversation
- OXO Good Grips
- iFixit teardown of the AirPort Extreme
- A geometry lession regarding the Back of Marco's trash can
- Sharp edges got softer on MacBook Pros over time
After show:
- More Showbot talk (spoiler alert)
  - John complains about Safari
  - John complains about the Showbot
  - Casey self-censors
  - XSS by friend of the bot Jeremy Banks
- Marco circles back and exits the parking ramp regarding Overcast
  - The ghost of Jury
  - Marco's XOXO talk where Overcast was announced... in September 2013
  - Working around UIKit limitations with crazy hacks
  - Whether to wait for iOS 8
- John's Yosemite review status