Episode 460: Listen to the Jar
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: A fun and creepy new face swap app; Twitter is not creating much new happy; this leads to a discussion of generational perceptions about what's acceptable or even desirable (especially with Apple products); praise for the podcast, The Dream; Merlin gets a new clock; the origin of #MerlinsPoopList; who pays $168 for a bikini?; Merlin has uvula problems; Dan explores P&S Liquid and an upsetting gurgling noise; and, finally, "Back to the Mac 2020™" kicks off with a first dive into the magic of Obdev's LaunchBar.
Links for this episode:
- Digital Calendar Alarm Day Clock - with 8" Large Screen Display, am pm, 5 Alarm, for Extra Large Impaired Vision People, The Aged Seniors, The Dementia, for Desk, Wall Mounted, White
- LaunchBar 6
- Instant Send
- Amazon.com: JALL
- Hypercritical: Front and Center
- Hypercritical: Front and Center
- DOUBLICAT | Face swap in GIFs
- Hour of Code
- Smartphones: 72% of people will use only mobile for internet by 2025
- S2 E4: Take With Caution — The Dream — Overcast
- S1 E1: Wanna Swim in Cash? — The Dream — Overcast
- Phenol topical Reviews & Ratings at Drugs.com
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- Action Movie FX
- Home | Masquerade
- Merlin Mann on Twitter: "I legit love you guys, but here’s one thing to think about: The happier I am, the less I look at Twitter. And, the less I look at Twitter, the happier I am." / Twitter
- Christmas Eve Twitter feels like the raw and ill-advised Twitter of 2007
- Toolbox Pro
- Pushcut - Smart notifications that trigger your automation
- LaunchCuts | LaunchCuts is a powerful, customizable, and elegant launcher for shortcuts on iOS. Organize your shortcuts manually into folders or create smart folders using tags.
- Quicksilver (software) - Wikipedia
- Alfred - Productivity App for macOS
- Butler · Many Tricks
- Comparison of desktop application launchers - Wikipedia
These desktop application launchers work with the Apple macOS operating system only.
- That's a Reference on Twitter: "233-31:40 @Siracusa “That should be the title of my biography…” DONE cc @hotdogsladies https://t.co/s30a7O70Bl" / Twitter
- Narrow your search results on Mac - Apple Support
- A Slack comment by Merlin
"…how many of the folks at Apple right now grew up using iOS way more than a Mac?"
- Connected #276: Symbiosis, Osmosis, Whatever - Relay FM
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Hey, Maryland. What's up? |
| 0:04.0 | What's up, dad? How are you? |
| 0:06.0 | Doing good. Good. |
| 0:08.0 | No. |
| 0:10.0 | Good. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah, me too. |
| 0:14.0 | So what's up? What's going on over there? |
| 0:16.0 | I want to welcome you |
| 0:18.0 | back to the Mac 2020. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 0:22.0 | Back to the Mac. I'd realize I have a theme for this show. |
| 0:24.0 | Okay. I haven't talked to you about this. |
| 0:26.0 | Gosh, I got a lot of apps open on my Mac. |
| 0:28.0 | I want to talk about, I realized we have to talk about |
| 0:32.0 | your keeping you face swap app. |
| 0:34.0 | But I have a lot to talk about with the |
| 0:36.0 | Macintosh computer system. |
| 0:38.0 | I am familiar with this platform, |
| 0:40.0 | this computing platform. |
| 0:42.0 | Now, this is going to be ample opportunities. |
| 0:44.0 | First of all, I'm going to ask for help from you |
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