Accidental Tech Podcast

25: Thrustmaster Joystick


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 <a href="https://www.rescuetime.com/">RescueTime</a>.
Casey's sales of <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fast-text/id376634510?mt=8">Fast Text</a> since last week's promotion, Marco's <a href="http://www.marco.org/2013/07/31/the-app-store-problem-is-not-price">sales of Bugshot</a>, and the potential economic upside of promotion for niche apps.
The fashion longevity of iOS 7's default UI.
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/07/google-chrome-password-security-flaw">Chrome's controversial plaintext-password feature</a> and Chrome security leader <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6166731">Justin Schuh's defense of the design</a>.
Lakes.
An epic, half-hour Siracusa rant on the state of finding and installing Minecraft mods.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_%28software%29">Kali</a>.
<a href="http://caseyrumors.com/">caseyrumors</a>: Is this the future of Fast Text?

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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.