Daniel and Manton celebrate Daniel’s recovered notes, discuss the security of online storage, and check in on concurrent programming techniques.

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• Dropbox Pro – Various paid plans for Dropbox.
• Backblaze – Online backup service with unlimited capacity.
• Developer.icloud.com – Apple developer site for browsing iCloud documents.
• Concurrency Programming Guide – Apple’s documentation on concurrent programming.
• Concurrent Programming – Issue #2 of objc.io, an online periodical for Objective-C programmers.
• AFNetworking – The popular, open-source Objective-C networking framework.

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Manton and Daniel discuss Apple’s rising stock, withholding features as a virtue, the Mac Pro movie trailer, and data loss from non-syncing iOS apps.

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Links:

• September 10 – AllThingsD report that Apple will announce its next phone on September 10.
• Gold iPhone 5S – Rene Ritchie on the likelihood of a tastefully gold iPhone.
• Assembled In USA – Daniel’s post speculating, wrongly, that Apple would make a fuss about US assembly of the Mac Pro.
• Dropbox Datastore – Dropbox’s structured data API.

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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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Manton and Daniel talk about the Bitsplitting Podcast’s hiatus, prioritizing focus on multiple projects, and Apple’s unprecedented developer-program security breach.

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• Bitsplitting Podcast – Daniel’s other podcast, now on hiatus.
• Justin Williams – Justin Williams’s Twitter account.
• Second Gear Software – Justin Williams’s software company.
• Tweet Marker – Manton’s Twitter timeline sync service.
• Alpha App.net – The social network that Manton uses more ardently than Twitter.
• Apple Developer Site Hack – Run-down by The Guardian about Apple’s developer site downtime.

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Daniel and Manton talk about Tweet Marker’s new developer plan, dealing with deprecated APIs, WWDC videos on YouTube, and the futility of Apple’s NDA.

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• Tweet Marker Developer Program – Manton’s page for developers who want to support Tweet Marker in their apps.
• What is the WWDC NDA Protecting? – Cabel Sasser wonders on Twitter why we have to abide by NDA for WWDC content.
• NDA Invalidated? – Watermark collection of tweets spawned by David Barnard about the validity of Apple’s NDA after divulgence.

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Manton and Daniel talk about the loss of RSS feeds for Twitter searches, the joys of starting on a new app, and sweating the details of all the non-programming indie software-business work.

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• RSS Feeds For Twitter – Advice from Amit Agarwal on hacking together an RSS feed for Twitter search results.
• Yahoo Pipes – Yahoo’s visual programming toolkit for web-based data.
• T Command Line Tool – Ruby-based command-line interface to Twitter’s API.
• NetNewsWire 4 Beta – Beta-release of the next version of the popular Mac-based news reader.
• Ship Everything – Manton’s year-old blog post on the credo to only start projects you will finish.
• iOS Text Editors – Brett Terpstra’s extensive catalog of iOS-based text editors.

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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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Manton and Daniel speculate about Scott Forstall’s future, talk more about WWDC, and discuss the pros and cons of Apple’s major iOS 7 changes.

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• Apple’s Executive Shakeup – Press release from October 2012 announcing the departure of Scott Forstall.
• upthere – Palo Alto company widely considered to be Bertrand Serlet’s new startup.
• Painting The Future (ADC Membership Required) – Lunchtime special feature at WWDC 2013 featuring Pixar demos with new Mac Pro.
• Fertile Ground – Blog post by Marco Arment about the opportunities for software developers on iOS 7.

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