Aliens Land Here: Recent Episodes
Richard Kalling, Mark El-Wakil
No new episode, but ALH isn’t retired.
It looks like Season 3 might just be two episodes, however.
Hoping to get Season 4 going when our recording areas are habitable again.
In the meantime, here’s the first post in the ALH, Dear series.
ALH’s Dear {Company} S1E1Dear Apple,
Why do you make it so hard to block people messaging us? On the Mac, you have to go Messages->preferences->iMessage->blocked, then click + to add a contact to block.
This makes no sense, why would I have a spam contact number I want to block in my contact list? I should be able to right-click and block them. I can right click and “Do not disturb” them, but that doesn’t seem like the same thing. So if I wanted to block them from the Mac, I would first need to add them to my contacts? That’s insane.
Things are slightly better on the iPhone, where all I have to do is:
- Go into their message.
- Tap their icon.
- Tap info.
- Tap their number.
- Click block.
I imagine there’s probably an easier way to do this, but I have no idea what it might be.
Best Regards,
ALH
Mark and Richard talk about the September Apple event. Yes, this was recorded a month before release… We had a few non-technical difficulties… Also one technical difficulty. No, we did not storm Area 51, thanks for asking.
Mark and Richard talk about Mark trying out the Oculus Quest, Richard’s MacBook Pro Repair Experience, Mark’s new P100D and Richard’s Cross Country U-Haul Trip.
Mark and Richard talk about Panic’s Playdate, Google Merging with Nest, 3d Touch with a lengthy aftershow talking about Star Trek, Game of Thrones and Westworld.
Mark and Richard speak with Scroll CTO Kushal Dave. They talk about Scroll and the Macbook Pro refresh. Richard gives his initial impressions of the Oculus Quest.
Mark and Richard talk about the Apple Services event from March, Google Stadia, and the Oculus Rift S
Mark and Richard talk about the Model Y, Nintendo Instruction Manuals, Dwarf Fortress, Climbing and new iPads/iMacs.
Mark and Richard talk about Tesla Updates, Alex Trebek, Hololens 2, USB 3.0 and more MacBook Pro hate.
Mark and Richard talk about Otoscopes, Folding Phones, Apple Credit Cards, Transitioning to ARM, and Doug Bowser. Featuring lots of Street Fighter 2 nostalgia in the aftershow.
Mark and Richard talk about VR, Tesla Pricing Changes, Tesla Servicing, the Facebook Enterprise Certificate debacle and the Six Colors Apple Report Card.
Mark and Richard talk about spam calls, Ubiquiti, Github and Unity support for SpatialOS.
Richard and Mark discuss Brookhaven, Intel’s stackable CPUs, rev.ai and Ubiquiti networking.
Mark and Richard talk about more video games, including Doom (2016), Donut County, and various Oculus VR Games.
Mark and Richard talk about Richard’s new Mac Mini, and setting up new computers.
Mark and Richard talk about changes to Tesla’s offerings, electric incentives and the iPad Pro.
Mark and Richard talk about the October 2018 Apple event, and a little bit about Coda with VPNs.
Mark and Richard talk about Audio Hijack, Anki Vector, Tesla (again) and Oculus Quest (again)
Mark and Richard talk about Oculus Connect and the past, present and future of VR.
Mark and Richard talk about our orders, Nintendo Switch Online and the NVIDIA 2080.
Mark and Richard talk about the fall iPhone event.
Mark and Richard talk about the Tesla P85D, car automation, and the Darpa Grand Challenge.
Mark and Richard give very brief impressions on the October 16th Apple event a couple minutes after it ended.
We speak briefly about the Shell Shock bug before moving on to Oculus Connect and our impressions of the current state of DK2 software.
We talk about why we pre-ordered the iPhones that we did, Apple Watch pricing, the state of Microsoft as a company (including their purchase of Minecraft), and Ballmerman!
A special edition Aliens Land Here. We moved up our schedule to talk about the recent news.
Mark talks about his trials and tribulations with PHP. Also, we get excited by the prospect of 5K displays coming soon, talk about Celebgate and the state of password management, and discuss the recent Samsung/Oculus announcement.
We talk about Hyperlapse, delve into what it means to be a computer user, and take wild guesses as to the nature of the giant building involved in Apple’s September 9th announcement. Also, a card trick.
In Episode 3 Mark and Richard discuss what it’s like to be an independent developer and how to survive in a market where good free or cheap software is getting more prevalent. Also, the word “Microbolometer” is used during follow-up. We think that’s a pretty cool word.
We talk about our RSS addictions, Richard’s new FLIR_ONE, Oculus DK2 and Google Cardboard, Mark’s new headphones and microphone, and the kragle!
The first episode of Aliens Land Here. A collector's item! Mark and Richard discuss iOS 8, make wild guesses about the next iPhone, talk about Mark's new laptop, pine for Retina desktop displays and discuss in-car displays.