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 discuss the end of The Daily newspaper app,  trademark infringing copycat apps, and using a shared family computer for work purposes.

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• News Corporation PR – Press release including announcement of The Daily’s ceasing publication.
• The Daily Failed – Marco Arment’s take on the end of The Daily.
• Evening Edition – Digest of world news from the folks at Mule Design.
• Tweetmarks to Tweet Marker – Manton’s tweet noting his product renaming based on trademark conflict.
• Watermark Trademarks – An example of the variety of trademarks based on a common word.
• Dropbox – File sharing service mentioned in context of using whatever computer do do one’s work.
• iTunes Match – Apple’s subscription-based cloud music syncing service.
• PowerTunes – Fat Cat Software’s application for managing multiple iTunes libraries.

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Manton and Daniel chat about Thanksgiving aftermath, Manton’s harrowing database failure, and the pros and cons of zip vs. dmg in Mac app distribution.

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Links for the show:

• Tofurky Feast – Classic vegetarian alternative to Thanksgiving turkey.
• Amazon EBS – Elastic block storage cloud service from Amazon.
• Redis – Open source key-value store used by Manton in Watermark.
• NUCLiOS App – iOS catalog of various UI solutions from NUCLiOS.

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Daniel and Manton talk more about passwords and security, the value of marketing for increasing revenue, and the loss of some favorite podcasts.

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Links for this show:

• Kill the Password – Mat Honan’s Wired article about the ineffectiveness of passwords.
• Hacking My AOL Account – Daniel’s post confirming the ease of hacking his own account.
• Beef Up Password Security – Article from Brian Krebs on improvements companies can make to password security.
• How to Get Good at Making Money – Jason Fried’s article for Inc on becoming more profitable.
• Making time for marketing – Manton’s post reflecting on Fried’s article.
• Build and Analyze Ending – Marco Arment’s post announcing the end of Build and Analyze.
• Hypercritical will end at episode 100 – The tweet from John Siracusa that says it all.

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Manton and Daniel discuss the handling of critical App Store bug fixes, the evolution of App.net, and the challenge of preventing and detecting server-side hacking.

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Links for this show:

• Stream Marker – New Tweet Marker-style timeline sync service from App.net.
• Netbot – App.net client app from Tapbots.
• Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive – Cloud-based storage services.
• Tripwire – Unix-based security tool for detecting changes to files.
• My Epic Hacking – Mat Honan’s terrible ordeal being hacked on many fronts.

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Daniel and Manton talk more about new iPads and iPhones, the recent corporate shakeup at Apple, and Manton’s recent switch away from PayPal.

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Links for this show:

• Another Billion Dollars – Horace Dediu of Asymco on Apple’s weekend of iPad sales.
• Identical Cousins 5 – Podcast from Brent and Michael Simmons discussing executive changes at Apple.
• Apple, Attentions & Competition – Om Malik on Forstall: “Steve’s guy, not Steve Jobs.”
• Stripe – Payment processing service with developer-friendly features.
• I ♥ Stripe – Dan Wood of Karelia on switching to Stripe.
• Ross Boucher – Early employee of Stripe and a co-founder of 280 North.

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Manton and Daniel anticipate Hurricane Sandy, catch up on Apple’s latest announcements, and celebrate the success of Loren Brichter’s Letterpress app.

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Links for this show:

• Kindle vs. iPad Mini – Product comparison that is similar to the (no longer shown) Amazon home page feature.
• Amazon Attacks iPad Mini – Link from Daring Fireball to Gizmodo’s article about Kindle marketing.
• The Anti-Apple Market – Daniel’s Bitsplitting post on Amazon’s unusual deviation from Apple’s market.
• Copy Editing Amazon’s Ad – Rene Ritchie takes a red marker to Amazon’s Kindle claims.
• Introducing Letterpress – The new social game for iOS from Tweetie developer Loren Brichter.

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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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Daniel and Manton discuss their experience at the Çingleton Symposium in Montréal, Daniel’s new blog, and Manton’s new iOS Watermark app.

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Links for this show:

• Çingleton – The Mac and iOS meetup in Montréal, PQ.
• C4 – Wikipedia page for the revered, retired conference in Chicago, IL.
• The Magazine – Marco Arment’s new Newsstand app.
• Bitsplitting.org – Daniel’s new blog for writing independently of Red Sweater.
• So Many Reasons To Cry – Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin on the role of “grit” in accomplishing goals.
• Watermark Mobile – Manton’s free companion app to the Watermark web service.

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Manton and Daniel discuss Manton’s departure from Twitter, life advice from Steve Jobs, and coping with feature changes in apps.

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Links for this show:

• Steve Jobs’s Commencement Address – Text of inspiring speech by Steve Jobs at Stanford University.
• I’ll Leave You With This – Manton’s last Tweet.
• App.net – Manton’s preferred microblogging service.
• Netbot – App.net client for iOS from Tapbots.
• Wedge – App.net client for Mac from Nate Stedman.
• Developer Incentive Program – Blog post from App.net announcing their developer payout scheme.
• BBEdit – The venerable text editor for Mac by Bare Bones.

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