25: Thrustmaster Joystick
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2013
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
- Marco's new-new-new app for aligning double-ender podcast tracks.
- Economic considerations and options for releasing an app that's extremely helpful to a very small number of people.
- Why Marco has been procrastinating from the big app by making small apps.
- Good app names as motivation.
- Desktop Twitter distraction and measuring desktop productivity with RescueTime.
- Casey's sales of Fast Text since last week's promotion, Marco's sales of Bugshot, and the potential economic upside of promotion for niche apps.
- The fashion longevity of iOS 7's default UI.
- Chrome's controversial plaintext-password feature and Chrome security leader Justin Schuh's defense of the design.
- Lakes.
- An epic, half-hour Siracusa rant on the state of finding and installing Minecraft mods.
- Kali.
- caseyrumors: Is this the future of Fast Text?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Are we sure we have John? |
| 0:02.0 | I almost forgot how to do this. It's been so long since we've recorded it. |
| 0:05.0 | I know. I know. |
| 0:06.0 | Although this last time is John's fault. |
| 0:08.0 | You're all recording, right? We're remembering that? |
| 0:10.0 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:12.0 | You forgot once for like 10 minutes and you're never going to live it down. |
| 0:16.0 | I know. I know. |
| 0:18.0 | That's why we have redundant systems, my friend. |
| 0:20.0 | Yes. That's why we have redundant systems. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm looking forward to editing this episode. |
| 0:26.0 | This is going to be the first one that I get to use. |
| 0:28.0 | My automatic drift corrector and a liner for triple ender recordings. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm going to release this thing at some point. |
| 0:36.0 | I have it to a handful of beta testers right now just to make sure it works on, you know, |
| 0:42.0 | more than just my computer and more than just like our tracks from the three of us for this one show. |
| 0:47.0 | When you say release it, do you mean release it like the FaceTime spec or do you mean actually release it like second crack? |
| 0:53.0 | That's a good question. |
| 0:55.0 | Okay, so backing up a second. |
| 0:59.0 | What this tool is. |
| 1:01.0 | I guess this is going to become a quick topic, so I'll try to make it quick because it isn't that interesting. |
| 1:07.0 | When you record a podcast like this, typically people talk to each other over Skype and then the way you can record is you can either have everybody record their own microphones input that records just them. |
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