Episode 59: 59: Safari is Apple's Google
Hypercritical
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5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2012
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on John's TiVo and smoke detector woes and the angst about the lack of a number after the name of the new iPad. John reviews his new Apple TV. Finally, the videos showing Chris Pirillo’s dad exploring Windows 8 and Mac OS X for the first time are mined for insights about computing in 2012 and beyond.
Links for this episode:
- ZFS TimeMachine - GitHub
- Disabling the IR sensor on John's smoke detector - Matthew Copsey
- iPhoto's Mystery Meat Gestures - Lukas Mathis
- TVonics Store - A UK digital video recorder
- HUMAX - A UK digital video recorder
- Apple TV - Apple.com
- Awake, Season 1 - iTunes
- YCbCr - Wikipedia
- Chris Pirillo’s dad using Windows 8 for the first time - YouTube
- Chris Pirillo’s dad using Mac OS X for the first time - YouTube
- What is a Browser? Google asks people on the street - YouTube
- What is a browser? Google explains (and promotes Chrome) - YouTube
- Tog on Interface quote in John's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion review - Ars Technica
- Chris Pirillo - Wikipedia
- Ten's Complement, ZEVO Storage
- Apple Keynotes (1080p) video podcast feed - iTunes
- Marco Arment’s Desk. Nice try Marco! We all know...
- They're Made out of Meat - Terry Bisson
- The Daily Show's "Hufu" story
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical, weekly talk show, ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:09.5 | Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be eradicated, liquidated, and exterminated by my co-host, John |
| 0:18.3 | Syracuse. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:20.3 | Today is Friday, March 16th. |
| 0:24.0 | This is episode number 59. |
| 0:27.4 | We'd like to thank our three sponsors today, |
| 0:29.2 | hover.com, Squarespace.com, and source bits |
| 0:34.4 | tell you more about them as the show progresses |
| 0:39.6 | hello John Syracusea |
| 0:41.3 | low damn Benjamin |
| 0:43.0 | big day for you today, iPad day. |
| 0:46.0 | Everybody in your family, new iPad arrives today. |
| 0:49.0 | No new iPads in this house. |
| 0:51.0 | Yesterday I got my new Apple TV though. |
| 0:52.8 | Oh, cool. So I'm sure you'll have a lot to say about that. |
| 0:56.4 | Yes, we will talk about that. |
| 0:57.8 | Excellent. |
| 0:58.8 | But first, follow up. |
| 1:01.8 | Okay. Good crop this week. I should have practiced my name |
| 1:07.9 | pronunciation for the show. The first one right off the bat I'm in trouble. |
| 1:11.2 | Serial Godfroy? Hope I'm in trouble. Serial goadfroy, I hope I did a good job, but that has pointed me to a ZFS time machine implementation. |
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