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.
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5by5 | Hypercritical #59: Safari is Apple’s Google
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5by5 | Hypercritical #58: No More Numbers For You / The Four Tuners
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin do some brief follow up on file systems, then dive into this week’s Apple press event: the new Apple TV, the new iPad, specs vs. product names vs. Apple PR vs. sanity, and how we all still miss Steve Jobs. Plus, John reviews his new TiVo Premiere Elite and, of all things, his new smoke detector.
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5by5 | Hypercritical #56: Belt and Suspenders
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about file systems: what they do, what makes a good one, and who needs a new one, badly. (Spoiler: it’s Apple.) File systems discussed: Microsoft’s ReFS, ZFS, and HFS+.
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5by5 | The Talk Show #81: Coffee and Trucker Pills
John Gruber and Dan Benjamin talk about whether Michael Knight’s keyboard could replace the Apple Extended Keyboard, the upcoming iPad event and potential software demos, the future of One More Thing, whether Siri and LTE will come to iPad 3, and who will be on stage.
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5by5 | Hypercritical #57: Computational Skeuomorphism
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about file systems: the origins of Btrfs, how file systems might change in the new age of SSDs, the possibility of a Grand Unification of storage and memory subsystems, and why snapshots, clones, block-level diffs, and deduplication are awesome features of ZFS that would make Time Machine a lot better than it is today. The show ends with John’s predictions for the new iPad, which we all assume will be announced at the Apple press event next week.
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Hypercritical #55: Region of Pain
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss this week’s announcement of OS X Mountain Lion: what it means for John’s reviews, how the new release schedule might influence adoption and reliability, and how features like GateKeeper will affect Mac users and developers.
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The Talk Show #79: 8:31
On this truly Big Week, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin are joined by John Siracusa to discuss Gruber’s personal keynote, who Apple is competing with, the new features in Mountain Lion, the future of the Mac and iCloud, and being off the record.
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5by5 | The Talk Show #77: Caviar and Champagne
John Gruber and Dan Benjamin discuss the evolution of MacWorld|iWorld, the evolution and future of cameras and camera makers, the Y-Combinator startup caught red-handed, Final Cut Pro Updates, laptop bags, Super Bowl winners that make John sick, the inevitable Facebook IPO, search engines, and Apple factories.
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Hypercritical #53: Brad Pitt Gets to Contribute
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit gamification in education, talk briefly about the Nest thermostat, then engage in an ever-so-slightly more considered discussion of Wikipedia, attempting to address the mountain of feedback on the topic. No Wikipedians were harmed in the making of this episode.
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The Talk Show #76: The Stink of a Loser
John and Dan discuss Thorsten Heins and the future of RIM, Verizon’s new numbers, the camera-less Singaporean iPhone, Zeldman’s accident, and the iPad 3 rumors.
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