Daniel and Manton talk about the final days of Manton’s road trip, Carl Icahn and Apple stock, and what Beanstalk dropping Mercurial means for the future of version control.

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Links:

• “Spoke To Tim Cook Today” – Activist-investor Carl Icahn’s recent tweet about Apple stock.
• “Bought A Bunch Of Apple Stock” – Wil Shipley’s sarcastic reaction to Carl Icahn’s tweet.
• Dark Future – Larry Ellison’s interview with CBS News in which he predicts failure for Apple without Steve Jobs.
• Beanstalk — Manton’s version control hosting provider drops Mercurial support.
• Kiln Harmony — Fog Creek combines Mercurial and Git.
• GitHub new investment — money to go enterprise from Andreessen Horowitz.
• Gitbox — Manton’s favorite Git client for Mac.

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Manton and Daniel talk about Manton’s ongoing adventure, AMBER and other mobile emergency alerts, and making the most of Apple documentation.

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Links:

• Macworld article on AMBER Alerts — Lex Friedman outlines the types of emergency alerts.
• iOS 6 release notes — and more beta notes from iOS 7 and Mavericks behind the sign-in.
• Getting started guides — some of Apple’s resources for brand new iOS developers.
• iDeveloper episode 90 — Scotty talks with Microsoft’s Chris Risner.
• NSBrief episode 94 — also sponsored by Windows Azure, including an interview with Microsoft’s Josh Twist.

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Daniel and Manton talk about the return of ADC, Manton’s epic road trip, the death of upgrade pricing, and the death of Bento.

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• Apple Developer System Status — more green lights for the dev portal.
• Daring Fireball post on Bob Mansfield — John Gruber says there’s no backstage intrigue.
• Om Malik video — “A Lot of Love for Mansfield at Apple”.
• Logic Pro X released — major update from Apple without upgrade pricing.
• Apple’s Answer on Upgrade Pricing — David Smith reacts to Logic Pro X.
• Coda 2 — upgrade pricing for everyone.
• Bento cancelled — FileMaker’s press release.

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Daniel and Manton talk about Daniel’s approach for the text editor app market, catch up on the latest in RSS syncing, and take 3 questions about iOS 7 development.

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• Minimalist Text Editor? – Daniel’s Tweet asking for text editor opinions.
• Byword – A popular minimalist text editor.
• iA Writer – Another popular editing app.
• Elements – And another, from Justin Williams.
• NetNewsWire 4 Beta – Preview release of the popular Mac RSS reader.
• Reeder – Another popular Mac and iOS RSS reader.
• Feed Wrangler – A web-based RSS reader that also has an iOS client and a Mac client on the way.
• Feedbin – Another web-based RSS reader.
• Feedly – And another!
• Mr. Reader – An RSS reader for iPad with a large variety of syncing options.
• ReadKit – Mac RSS reader with custom support for many “read later” type services.
• All Or Nothing – Marco Arment’s judgment of Black Pixel’s presumed choice to build their own sync solution.

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Daniel and Manton talk about surviving WWDC without a ticket, reflect on App.net’s progress, discuss the merits of early compatibility fixes, and consider Apple’s public shaming of Scott Forstall.

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• altWWDC – Successful alternative to the official WWDC 2013 conference
• App.net Hackathon Recap – Summary of the pre-WWDC event.
• TinyUmbrella – Tool to make restoring iOS versions easier.
• Multiplane – Manton’s blog post about iOS 7 UI.

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Daniel and Manton discuss working while sick, how not to change a light bulb, Twitter photo filters, Flickr, and a question about organizing shared code.

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• How to remove a broken light bulb — The potato trick.
• Twitter adds photo filters — New app uses the Aviary SDK.
• Biz Stone “Systrom Failure” — Tweet from the Twitter co-founder.
• Om Malik writes about Twitter — What is Twitter’s core competency?
• Flickr’s new iOS app — Completely redesigned.
• 500px — Popular new photo sharing site.
• Marissa Mayer removing the ® — “Legal assures us that our trademark is implied and quite secure.”
• Beanstalk project hosting — Subversion, Git, and Mercurial.
• CocoaPods — Library management for Objective-C.
• iOS-framework — GitHub project and documentation.

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Daniel and Manton anticipate Apple’s now-released product updates and discuss coping with the unpredictability of web service APIs.

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Links for this show:

• Apple Special Event – Apple announces iPad Mini, retina 13-inch MacBook Pro, and new iMacs and Mac minis.
• Tweetbot for Mac – Mac Twitter client with a price reflecting Twitter’s new token policy.
• WordPress – The popular open-source blogging platform.
• Movable Type – The somewhat less popular blogging platform that went open-source later.

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Manton and Daniel discuss App Store review times, sandbox containers, sense of place for files, and their new Flickr OAuth homework.

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• Hazel – Automated file-maintenance utility from Noodlesoft.
• The Talk Show Episode #8 – Merlin Mann discusses the lost “sense of place” for files at 1:02:40.
• Farewell FlickrAuth – The somewhat obscure announcement that FlickrAuth will be shut down in favor of OAuth.

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Manton and Daniel talk about updating for the retina MacBook Pro, Lion APIs, PayPal subscriptions, and the App Store’s Japanese tax withholding.

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Links for this show:

• The ugly of abandonware – Daniel’s tweet about not updating for retina.
• You need the retina MacBook Pro – Marco makes the case for designers.
• The Forward Fringe – Daniel responds to Marco.
• Stripe – A developer-friendly alternative to PayPal.
• Jump Start Your Business Brain – A business marketing book by Doug Hall.

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Daniel and Manton talk more about the sandboxing deadline, Apple TV apps, and how to manage shared code between projects.

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Links for this show:

• This App Is Your App — Daniel’s blog post about supporting App Store licensed users with direct-downloaded apps
• Daring Fireball on WWDC schedule — includes John Gruber’s guess about Apple TV apps
• Brent Simmons on shared code — how he planned to share code at NewsGator
• Jenkins — continuous integration

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