308: The Adventures of Dr. Icon

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Myke, Hurley, Amazon, Apple, Snell, Jason, Tech, Streaming, Media, Technology

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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This week Stephen Hackett joins Myke and Jason to consider the best and worst changes to app icons in macOS Big Sur. What makes a good icon? How are books shaped? What is the origin of the term "email"? What happened to Lou? Staring at icons for a long time really makes you think...

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0:00.0	From Relay FM, this is Upgrade, episode 308. Today's show is brought to you. episode 308.
0:13.0	Today's show is brought to you by a PDF pen from Smile
0:16.0	and Fully.
0:17.0	My name is Mike Hurley and I am joined by Mr. Jason Snell.
0:20.0	Hi Jason Snell.
0:21.0	I'm Mike Hurley.
0:23.0	Some are fun, my friends. Summer of fun.
0:25.0	Yeah, it's going to be a fun one today, man.
0:28.0	Oh boy. We do. We have a fun guest later on in the episode.
0:30.0	We're going to be joined by Stephen Hackett, and we're going to be joined by Stephen Hackett and we're going to be doing a
0:33.4	draft of sorts kind of we're going to be talking about last time we spoke about
0:37.9	the sounds of Maco-SPIC, sir this time we're going to talk about the icons of MacO-S-Pixir.
0:44.0	Hold them in your mind.
0:45.0	Think of them.
0:46.0	Imagine them as we paint word pictures of what the icons look like.
0:49.0	But we have a hashtag snell-talk question comes from Mark and Mark wants to know
0:52.1	Jason. If you were to
0:53.6	cosplay at Comic Con who would you cosplay as? Okay something you may not know
0:59.2	about me is I don't like wearing costumes. I don't like dressing up for Halloween. I haven't since I was a little kid. So not my favorite. Not my favorite thing. But if I did need to wear a costume at Comic Con, I thought about this and I don't have any great answers.
1:17.4	My best answer is probably one of the Doctor Who's. I'm not sure which one. Okay. Maybe Patrick Troutin, the second doctor, his body shape
1:29.7	is not a bad fit for mine, so maybe I would go with that so that's my Doctor Who fans answer is the second doctor is seen in the
1:37.1	episode the two doctors because he had gray hair then and I have gray hair so that would be perfect
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