Manton and Daniel talk about CocoaConf Alt’s cancellation, WWDC’s protracted sell-out, and making time for indie projects with a busy life schedule.

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• CocoaConf Alt Canceled – Blog post from CocoaConf’s Dave Klein about the cancellation.
• altWWDC – The alternative, free conference put on by folks from Appsterdam.
• A Word About CocoaConf Alt – Follow-up from Dave Klein clarifying that he does not begrudge Apple for cancellation.
• You Can Check Out… – Daniel’s blog post reacting to CocoaConf Alt cancellation.
• Mac Software Business Year One – Roundtable from iDeveloper TV where Gus Mueller talks about focusing on one product at a time.

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Manton and Daniel talk about adopting new technologies, choosing system requirements, version numbering (again!) and Adobe’s shift to all-subscription sales for Creative Suite.

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• FMDB – An Objective-C wrapper around SQLite, by Gus Mueller.
• Tweet Library 2.3 – Manton updates his archival Twitter client.
• Instacast 3 – Example of a major update that focused more on fit and finish and less on bold new features.
• Adobe Creative Cloud – Announcement from Adobe that “new product innovation” will be exclusively through cloud subscriptions.
• NSConference Videos – $149 pack of all the videos from NSConference 5, including Manton’s and Daniel’s.
• Dead Man’s Switch – Concept mentioned by Daniel in context of guaranteeing product functionality after abandonment.
• TextMate – The venerable Mac OS X text editor that still works in spite of halted development.
• Upcoming.org – Wikipedia page about the site Yahoo! summarily dispensed with weeks ago.
• Save Upcoming – Upcoming founder Andy Baio rallying support for a rogue archival effort for the site’s content.
• Archive Team – “A loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage.”

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Daniel and Manton talk about WWDC ticket sales, alternative conferences ticketless attendees, and the vibrancy of the Mac software market.

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• WWDC – Apple’s annual developer conference.
• altWWDC – Free, alternative conference to WWDC during the week of the show.
• CocoaConf Alt – A paid, single-track alternative to WWDC during the week of the show.
• App.net Hackathon – Hacking marathon for App.net developers, on the eve of WWDC.
• Acorn – Light-weight image editing application from Flying Meat.
• Briefs – iOS-focused app UI-prototyping software from the folks at MartianCraft.
• Software Indie – New podcast from Scotty of iDeveloper fame, focused on empowering indies.

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Manton and Daniel talk about WWDC ticket sales, Ambrosia Software’s major layoff, and Google Glass terms of services.

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• WWDC June 10 – News release from Apple about the dates and ticket-sale strategy for WWDC 2013.
• WWDC 2013 – Detailed information about the conference from Apple.
• AltWWDC – Alternative gathering for the week of WWDC, put on by folks from Appsterdam.
• Ambrosia Software – The stalwart Mac software maker that recently issued mass layoffs.
• Ambrosia Still Alive – Piece by Jeff Garnet of the Mac Observer about Ambrosia’s prospects.
• Panic – Another Mac software company that seems to be around for the long haul.
• Google Glass API – Terms of service for the Google Glass API.
• App.net Developer Incentive Terms – A contrasting API terms agreement.

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Daniel and Manton talk about Boston, Panic’s Status Board, Google’s Glass UI guidelines, and Google Fiber.

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• Panic Status Board – New iPad app from Panic for customizable passive data displays.
• Panic’s examples of plugins – Blog post from Panic highlighting many custom 3rd party panels.
• Dashcode User Guide – Apple’s documentation for their widget-devleopment IDE.
• Glass UI guidelines – Google’s user interface guidelines for their glasses-based devices.
• Google Fiber Austin – Announcement page for Google’s initiative to bring super-high-speed internet to Manton’s home town.
• AT&T Fiber in Austin – Announcement from AT&T that it plans to build gigabit fiber in Austin, as well.
• Verizon FiOS – Fiber internet service from Verizon that is decidedly slower than gigabit.

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Manton and Daniel discuss CocoaConf Dallas, subscription app pricing, Google’s fork of WebKit, and the Facebook Home debut.

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• Google Blink – Google’s fork of the WebKit rendering engine.
• Recapitulating History – WebKit engineer Maciej Stachowiak comments on the Blink fork.
• Facebook Home – Facebook’s Android-based home screen and mobile apps suite.
• HTC First – The first Android phone to come bundled with Facebook Home.
• Motorola Razr – Wikipedia page on the phone collaboration between Apple and Motorola.
• Home Turf – Matt Drance weighs in on the significance of Facebook Home.
• Instagram – Facebook-owned social photo-sharing site that is open to younger children than allowed on Facebook proper.

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Daniel and Manton talk about the upcoming CocoaConf conference, hacking Netflix in the browser and Michael Jurewitz’s blog series on pricing software.

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• CocoaConf – Mac and iOS conference that Manton is speaking at in Dallas.
• NSConference – UK-based Mac and iOS conference.
• Safari Extensions Reference – Apple’s documentation on developing extensions for Safari.
• Feedly – RSS reading service with iOS, Android and Safari-based clients.
• Forecast.io – Impressive web-based weather app from the makers of Dark Sky.
• Tweet Library – Manton’s Twitter reading and archiving app.
• Power Nap Tips – Advice from Matt Stevens about managing networking behavior in an app when a Mac power-naps.
• WWDC Videos – Links to Apple’s videos for the past few years of WWDC.
• First Day – Michael Jurewitz announces by tweet his return to working at Apple.
• Understanding App Store Pricing – Epic blog series from Michael Jurewitz on pricing software.
• bbum’s weblog-o-mat – Bill Bumgarner’s blog on various topics technical and otherwise.

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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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Daniel and Manton talk about Google Reader and the future of RSS syncing, the Bitsplitting podcast, and getting back to our software projects.

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• 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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Manton and Daniel talk about NSConference, the indie state of mind, and the tactfulness of in-app marketing.

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• 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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