Episode 9: What's Eating the Mac Pro?

You Macs Have Nothing to Worry About. I’m a Professional.

For our ninth regular show, first we look back at an exciting fortnight, including the our special coverage of the March 25th Apple event, the escalating spat between Apple and Spotify, a date has been set for WWDC, the return of CorelDraw, preliminary rulings in the Apple/Qualcomm patent war, and a wrap up to the saga of the Keychain flaw. In the HomeKit Chronicles, we take a deep dive into the IKEA Tradfri lighting system as we continue to look at all things lights. In our main topic, we speculate on the semi-announced Mac Pro revision and discuss where we've been, the good, the, band, and what we want to see in the most pro of all pro macs in 2019.

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You can find Dan on Twitter @kefkafloyd. Against his better judgement, Jake is now on twitter @jakepugh. You can leave feedback by tweeting @icongardenshow or posting on the Icon Garden thread at the Mac Ach forum by going to http://bit.ly/tigsthread . You can subscribe to our show on your podcast platform of choice, or visit our website at icongardenshow.com.

Next Time in the Garden:

A Visit to the Fruit Stand

Bonus Episode 1: ”It's Show Time”

Bonus Episode: ”It's Show Time” Media Event

It's Showtime, Synergy!

For this special edition of the Icon Garden, we spend some time discussing and pontificating on the Apple Services Event held on March 25, 2019. We talk about the product launches that occurred leading up to the event and talk about the announcements made at the event and what we are excited about and what we need to hear more details on before passing judgement. Please join us for this special edition of the Icon Garden!

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You can find Dan on Twitter @kefkafloyd. Against his better judgement, Jake is now on twitter @jakepugh. You can leave feedback by tweeting @icongardenshow or posting on the Icon Garden thread at the Mac Ach forum by going to http://bit.ly/tigsthread . You can subscribe to our show on your podcast platform of choice, or visit our website at icongardenshow.com.

Episode 8: Peripheral Paraphernalia

Episode 8: Peripheral Paraphernalia

Click and Clack, the Keyboard switch brothers

For our eighth regular show, first we look at a few items of Apple news, including the annual Apple shareholder meeting, more on the ongoing dispute with Qualcomm, Apple celebrate International Women's Day, more cord confusion, and patent fun in East Texas. In the HomeKit Chronicles, we talk about the cornerstone of most HomeKit setups and dig into all things lights. We take a dive into the various connection methods and the pros and cons of each and review offerings from Hue, Sylvania, Eve, and VOCOlinc.. In our main topic, we take look at all things peripheral and input devices. The good, the bad, and the just plain weird. We talk about our personal favorite keyboards, mice, and all things in-between, and Jake makes an impulse purchase.

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You can find Dan on Twitter @kefkafloyd. Against his better judgement, Jake is now on twitter @jakepugh. You can leave feedback by tweeting @icongardenshow or posting on the Icon Garden thread at the Mac Ach forum by going to http://bit.ly/tigsthread . You can subscribe to our show on your podcast platform of choice, or visit our website at icongardenshow.com.

Next Time in the Garden:

What's Eating the Mac Pro?

Episode 7: Clone High

Episode 7: Clone High

Let's kick Intel's ass! Oh, wait...

For our seventh regular show, first we look at a few items of Apple news, including an Apple event scheduled for March 25, more on the ongoing enterprise certificate kerfluffle, a fix to the FaceTime bug, clandestine screen recording by some apps, more on Toyota and CarPlay, and the lack of a mac bug bounty program. In the HomeKit Chronicles, we talk about a promising hire at Apple, and dig into garage door openers as a segue into the world of homebridge. In our main topic, we fire up the time machine for a trip back to the 90s and the era that brought us a plethora of piñatas...or clone macs as it were. the good, the bad, and the surprisingly short clone era are remembered in all their glory.

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You can find Dan on Twitter @kefkafloyd. Against his better judgement, Jake is now on twitter @jakepugh. You can leave feedback by tweeting @icongardenshow or posting on the Icon Garden thread at the Mac Ach forum by going to http://bit.ly/tigsthread . You can subscribe to our show on your podcast platform of choice, or visit our website at icongardenshow.com.

Next time in the Garden:

Peripheral Paraphernalia

Episode 6: That New Mac Smell

Episode 6: That New Mac Smell

Swaggering about with powerful new Macs, they seemed to say “Look at me, Rex Banner: I have a new Mac!”

For our sixth regular show, first we look at a few items of Apple news, including crazy FaceTime bugs, privacy shenanigans from Facebook and Google, Apple Q1 results, iPad mini rumors, more iOS beta pludging, and hints that Roku may finally be joining the Airplay 2 party. In the HomeKit Chronicles, we take a look at baby cameras, and HomeKit cameras in general, and Jake shares an eero /DNS trick to improve HomeKit function, and in our main topic its Christmas Redux as Jake and Dan both enjoy that new Mac smell and compare and contrast the Mini and the MacBook Pro, and share our thoughts and opinions. Join us for Macsmas in February in the Icon Garden!

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You can find Dan on Twitter @kefkafloyd. Against his better judgement, Jake is now on twitter @jakepugh. You can leave feedback by tweeting @icongardenshow or posting on the Icon Garden thread at the Mac Ach forum by going to http://bit.ly/tigsthread . You can subscribe to our show on your podcast platform of choice, or visit our website at icongardenshow.com.

Next time in the Garden:

Clone High

Episode 5: Revisiting the Mac Game Hall of Fame

Episode 5: Revisiting the Mac Game Hall of Fame

If Every Port Were Perfect, We Wouldn't Have Marathon.

For our fifth regular show, first we look at a few items of Apple news, including more on bent iPad Pro, minor point pludging, Apple Pay at Target, CarPlay and HomeKit updates form CES, and iTunes and Airplay coming soon to a TV near you. We then begin a new segment on the "HomeKit Chronicles” and in our main topic we fire up the way-back machine and take look at classic mac games of days gone by...did your old favorite make the list? Join us for a trip down memory lane as we revisit the Mac Games Hall of Fame.

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Next time in the Garden:

That New Mac Smell!

Episode 4: Driving With CarPlay

Episode 4: Wow, infotainment.

For our fourth regular show, first we look at a few items of Apple news, including bent iPad Pro (iPads Pro?) and the end of in-app subscriptions for Netflix on iOS. Then we go for a virtual road trip as we take an in-depth look at CarPlay, as implemented both by car manufacturers and the growing third party ecosystem. What do we like? What can be improved? And what should you look at if you want to add CarPlay to your life.

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Next time in the Garden:

Revisiting the Mac Game Hall of Fame

Episode 3: The 2018 iPad Pro

Episode 3: Today in the Garden: What is a computer? A miserable little pile of circuits.

For our third regular show, first we look at a few items of Apple news, including new servers and a major campus upgrade in Austin. Then we take an in-depth look at the 2018 iPad Pro, its ecosystem and accessories, talk a lot about whether USB-C is the “one cable to rule them all” and look at some professional use cases to see whether the iPad Pro lives up to its Pro billing.

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Next time in the Garden:

Living with CarPlay

Episode 2: The Evolution of the PowerBook

Episode 2: Today in the Garden: Taking down aliens, one laptop at a time.

For our second regular show, we break out the Icon Garden Time Machine and take a trip back to the bygone days of 1991, as we take a semi-exhaustive retrospective look at the history of the PowerBook line of Apple laptops, the groundbreaking line that arguably set trends in laptop design and function that still exist today. Also, we take the Pludge on updates for iOS, MacOS, and WatchOS, and briefly discuss the EKG functionality.

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Next time in the Garden:

A look at the 2018 iPad Pro

Episode 1: The 2018 Mac Mini. Is it the xMac? Does it do xMac things?? Let's find out!?

Episode 1: Today in the Garden: Slots! God, I love Slots! Dear Princess Woz, I"m So Alone.

For our first regular show, we come out of the gate strong and tackle the not-at-all controversial topic of the fabled xMac. Specifically, what is the xMac and does the new 2018 make a case for itself as a contender in the xMac challenge.

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You can find Dan on Twitter @kefkafloyd. Jake remains a digital hermit who still doesn't have a twitter. You can leave feedback by tweeting @icongardenshow or posting on the Icon Garden thread at the Mac Ach forum by going to http://bit.ly/tigsthread . You can subscribe to our show on your podcast platform of choice, or visit our website at icongardenshow.com.

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The Evolution of the PowerBook