369: Brown Big Bear

Accidental Tech Podcast

• Episode: 369: Brown Big Bear
• Website: Accidental Tech Podcast
• Feed URL: http://atp.fm/episodes?format=rss
• Duration: 02:16:03
• Published: 2020-03-13 01:29

• Pre-show: Marco's Problem
  • Marco's image-retention test
  • Apple Cinema Display HD
• Follow-up:
  • The "coronavirus" virus itself is named SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 is the disease it causes (formerly called "2019 novel coronavirus" or "2019-nCoV" in some places).
  • Recommended info sources on COVID-19:
    • Flatten the Curve
    • CDC: COVID-19 (continuously updated)
    • Video: Exponential Growth and Epidemics
  • WWDC still not canceled
    • Santa Clara County bans gatherings of 1000+
  • John's internal storage situation
  • Mac shortcuts
    • Ellipsis is ⌥ ;
    • Adjective order
      • ⌘ ⌥ ⌃ ⇧
      • ⌃ ⌥?
      • Command key
    • Xcode symbol popup: ⌃ 6
    • Drag and drop open/save dialog
      • DefaultFolder X
    • Screen shotting/screen capture
    • Hot Corners and modifier keys
      • System Preferences → Desktop & Screen Saver → Hot Corners...
  • Casey's Computer Corner
    • Brian Ski's tweet
• Huge rumor dumps
  • New homescreen
  • Accessibility features, wallpapers, and #shotoniphone
    • GIFWrapped
  • OCR capabilities
    • Video: Transcriber in Windows Mobile
    • Graffiti
    • Inkwell
    • Black Ink
  • Apple Watch flag faces
  • General Apple Watch improvements
    • Tachymeter
• #askatp
  • Is the 2015 15" MBP still the best laptop ever made (via James Scariati)
  • Do we have hard-drive icons on our desktop? (via Rob Fiorendino)
  • How does one get hardware to make iOS apps on the cheap? (via Marcos Petri)
• Post-show: Marco's new adventures... deep underground
  • Penny Arcade

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