Daniel and Manton remember Steve Jobs, who passed away one year ago today.

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Links for this show:

• Dan Moren at Çingleton – Dan’s talk about the influences of Steve Jobs and George Lucas on his life.
• iPod Hi-Fi – Apple’s iPod speaker system once enthusiastically boosted by Steve Jobs.
• Tim Cook on Maps – Steve Jobs’s successor assumes the open letter format in apologizing for iOS 6 maps.
• Thoughts on Flash – Steve Jobs’s open letter on Flash support for iOS.
• Thoughts on Music – Steve Jobs’s open letter on DRM protection of music.
• Miracle on 34th Street – Classic movie illustrating the value of putting customers first.
• Command Versus Splat – The Talk Show with John Gruber and Dan Frommer.
• The Wrong Guy – John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs.
• Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview – Cheesy yet delightful film featuring a “lost” Steve Jobs interview.

Our continued condolences to all of Steve’s friends, family, and fans.

Manton and Daniel talk about iPhone 5, Maps in iOS 6, Twitter’s opening and closing policies, and Dropbox syncing.

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Links for this show:

• Twitter Opening Archives – Transcript of interview with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo.
• Watermark – Manton’s tweet archiving service.
• Tweet Keeper – Tweet archiving service promoted on The Talk Show.
• IFTTT Changes – Letter from CEO Linden Tibbets about Twitter integration changes.
• The Last Straw – Manton’s tweet announcing that Oct 5 will be has last non-reply post to Twitter.
• Deleting My Twitter Account – Tim Haines of Favstar alludes to his personal departure from Twitter.
• MarsEdit – Daniel’s blog editing software for the Mac.

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Daniel and Manton talk about the new iPhone 5, Twitter’s continued API degradation, and follow up on customer support topics.

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• iPhone 5 – The latest phone from Apple.
• Favstar – Web service for finding the most-favorited tweets of one’s self and others.
• Twitter @Anywhere – Another Twitter developer service being slated for removal.
• FogBugz – Issue and project management service from Fog Creek.
• FogBugz/Twitter Integration – Advice for integrating Twitter mentions into FogBugz.
• Buzz’s tweet on Twitter OAuth – Deprecating APIs for control of the platform.

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Manton and Daniel discuss customer email newsletters, the latest round of phone announcements, and design resources for developers.

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• Campaign Monitor – Bulk email service useful for newsletter delivery.
• Acorn – Graphics editing tool for OS X.
• DigitalColor Meter – Free screen-magnifying tool from Apple.
• xScope – Souped up screen-inspection tool from Iconfactory.
• Nodebox – Python-based graphics programming environment.
• Blog Redesign – Daniel’s post about using Nodebox to generate graphics.
• Paintcode – Mac tool for generating graphics-drawing code.

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Daniel and Manton talk about Manton’s rebranded Watermark service, the Apple v. Samsung patent lawsuit, and their approaches to managing customer support.

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• Watermark – Manton’s rebranding of Tweet Marker Plus.
• Billion Dollar Pile – Daniel’s quip on Twitter about Samsung’s payment to Apple.
• Identical Cousins – New podcast from Brent and Michael Simmons.
• Fantastical – Mac calendar software from Flexibits.
• Apoio – Customer support management software.
• FogBugz – Hosted bug tracking app from Fog Creek Software.
• Fluid – For creating site-specific browsers.

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Manton and Daniel welcome special guest Craig Hockenberry to discuss Twitter’s increasingly client-hostile policies, the emergence of app.net, and Craig’s undergarment preferences.

Title courtesy Jason Snell, as quoted by Craig in the podcast.

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• Furbo.org – Craig Hockenberry’s blog
• Twitter API Changes – Blog post from Twitter about policy changes in their 1.1 API
• Twitterrific Firsts – Craig’s list of Twitterrific’s groundbreaking contributions to Twitter culture
• Top Right Quadrant – Reaction from John Gruber to a graphic in Twitter’s API changes post
• alpha.app.net – Nascent Twitter-like service with a terrible name
  • @chockenberry – Craig’s personal account
  • @iconfactory – Iconfactory’s company account
  • @manton – Manton’s account
  • @danielpunkass – Daniel’s account
• Heello – Twitter competitor from Noah Everett, the founder of Twitpic
• The DECK – Ad network used to support free versions of Twitterrific

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Daniel and Manton chat about staying connected or otherwise while traveling, the recent open sourcing of TextMate, and our approaches to managing beta testing.

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• Diet Coda – Panic’s iPad web development application.
• TextMate – Popular Mac OS X programmer’s editor.
• TextMate 2 At GitHub – Allan Odgaard announces the new open source repository for TextMate 2.
• Experiences From Creating TextMate – Allan Odgaard’s talk at the C4 conference in 2007.
• BBEdit 10 – The venerable programmer’s editor from Bare Bones.
• Dear Allan Odgaard, Author Of TextMate – Marco Arment’s request that TextMate 2 require an upgrade charge.
• Getting Pretty Lonely – Daniel’s rant against the GPL license that TextMate 2 is released under.
• Shine – An Indie Mac Dashboard – Open source project aiming to facilitate software release hosting.
• Mesmerize –  Mattt Thompson’s command line tool for releasing Mac apps.
• Suicidal Code – Daniel’s technique for building self-expiring applications during beta testing.

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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 welcome Apple’s Mountain Lion, discuss the merits of freeware releases, and compare notes on managing time as indie developers.

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• Subscribe to Feed – Daniel’s Safari extension to restore RSS button functionality.
• Networking Crashes in Mountain Lion – Daniel’s post about proxy-related crashes in 10.8.
• TweetReach – Web app reporting tool for where your tweets go.
• The Power of Habit – Book about habit formation and how to restructure them.
• A Good Day’s Work – 37 Signals post about working a healthy number of hours.
• Tracking Sales Referrers – Manton’s blog post about adding referrer tracking for sales on his web store.

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Daniel and Manton talk about sudden priority shifts, the hopes of a crowd-funded Twitter alternative, and the self-promotional benefits of podcasting.

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Links for this show:

• Tumblr – A popular free blogging service with an unpopular API.
• Squarespace – A web publishing service with an emphasis on generating customer revenue.
• Twitterrific – The influential, early Twitter client for Mac and iOS.
• Twitter discourages third-party clients – Collection of tweets and links from 2011.
• Tweetbot announcement – Concerns over launching or charging for their client, from 2010.
• “I’m backing App.net” – John Gruber’s tweet, generated by App.net then edited.
• “So if App.net ever takes off…” – Daniel’s snarky response to App.net’s extortion-style Twitter ID reservation.
• App.net Stream API Spec – For vaporware, the App.net API documentation is pretty good.
• Kickstarter – The popular crowd-funding service.
• IndieGoGo – A crowd-funding service with more relaxed guidelines on what may be funded.

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