Manton and Daniel discuss the Mailbox acquisition by Dropbox, Google’s fickle product commitments, WWDC announcement anxiety, and the clever new App.net invites.
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- Poundland – The UK discount retail shop that inspired the episode title.
- Mailbox – Highly celebrated new iOS mail client for gmail.
- Welcome Mailbox – Blog post from Dropbox announcing their acquisition of Mailbox.
- App.net – Up and coming social network with various developer-oriented features.
- Hello, Dropbox – Blog post from Rasmus Andersson announcing his departure from Facebook for Dropbox.
- Notational Velocity – Zachery Schneirov’s open-source note-taking app for Mac OS X.
- nvAlt – Fork of Notational Velocity by Brett Terpstra and David Halter.
- Getting Twitchy? – Don McAllister ruminates on the dearth of new Apple products this year.
- No New Apple Products Yet – Manton’s response to Don’s twitchiness.
- Google Graveyard – Slate.com’s catalog of Google’s cancelled products.
- WWDC 2013 Notification – Paid WWDC-notification service by co-creator of Tokens for Mac.
- Boxcar – Highly customizable push-notification service including support for user-contributed services.
- Climber – App.net based app for sharing short videos editing in a Vine-like fashion.
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March 28, 2013 at 1:13 pm.
Daniel and Manton talk about Google Reader and the future of RSS syncing, the Bitsplitting podcast, and getting back to our software projects.
Download (MP3, 37 minutes, 17 MB)
- NetNewsWire – Brent Simmons’s venerable Mac OS X RSS reader, now developed by Black Pixel.
- Why I Love RSS… – Brent’s reflections on RSS in the wake of Google Reader shutdown.
- A Second Spring Of Cleaning – The blog post from Google in which Google Reader’s demise is the buried lede.
- NetNewsWire Cloud – Daniel’s take on the opportunity for Black Pixel to run with NetNewsWire to fill the void left by Reader.
- FeedWrangler – David Smith’s take on his own opportunity to fill some of the Reader void.
- MarsEdit – Daniel’s blog-editing app for Mac OS X.
- Bing – Microsoft’s alternative to the Google search engine.
- Reeder – RSS client for Mac and iOS from Gloria.
- Blogger – Web-based blogging software from Google.
- SubEthaEdit – Mac text editor with live collaboration.
- RSS Sync Mailing List – New mailing list from Brent Simmons for discussing the vagaries of RSS sync.
- The Bitsplitting Podcast – Daniel’s new interview-format podcast.
- Accidental Tech Podcast – New tech podcast from Marco Arment, Casey Liss, and John Siracusa.
- Logic Pro – Pro audio software from Apple.
- Tweet Library – Manton’s Twitter client with archival and collection features.
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March 20, 2013 at 2:40 pm.
Manton and Daniel talk about NSConference, the indie state of mind, and the tactfulness of in-app marketing.
Download (MP3, 39 minutes, 18 MB)
- NSConference – UK-based Mac and iOS conference that Daniel and Manton just attended.
- CocoaConf – US-based traveling conference for iOS and Mac developers.
- What Is An Indie? – Podcast episode from Scotty’s iDeveloper Live discussing meaning of “indie.”
- An Indie State Of Mind – Daniel’s blog post coincidentally discussing the merits of indie-dom.
- Craig Hockenberry – Developer of Twitterrific and speaker at NSConference on subject of indie-dom.
- Ish – Children’s book by Peter H. Reynolds supporting the notion that being “indie-ish” may be good enough.
- Learn Mobile Services – Tutorials by Brent Simmons on Azure Web Services for iOS.
- Searchpath – Manton’s custom website-searching service.
- MarsEdit – Daniel’s Mac-based blog editing software.
- 37 signals – A company made more famous by open-sourcing some of the “secret sauce.”
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March 12, 2013 at 9:54 am.
