Episode 022: The Star Wars Holiday "Special"

Published: Dec. 19, 2016, 4:23 a.m.

It's our last episode of the year (but you'll hear more from us in 2017, we promise), and we decided to give you a little bit more: an XL version of the podcast that runs 15 percent longer than usual, but includes a developer interview about Macphun's latest photo-editing app, Luminar, and a spoiler-riffic discussion (at the end, with plenty of very obvious warning we should add) about the latest Star Wars franchise film, Rogue One. Before Mike and Chas play Siskel and Ebert (or, more accurately, Statler and Waldorf) for the movie, though, we have tech news! The AirPods are shipping (contrary to rumors), Super Mario Run is out, there's an outrageous assault on the Fifth Amendment over an iPhone (again), and plenty of lawsuits for Apple to lose. We talk to Kevin LaRue from Macphun about its amazing new full-featured image editor Luminar, and we encourage our listeners to check it out via a free trial to be found at macphun.com/luminar, and the team have a fantastic sale price on it (and a sweet discount for owners of any other Macphun software) running until the end of the year. For our finale, we then proceed to ruin Rogue One for you (well, if you ignore the vociferous alerts and wander into our penultimate segment) before finally wishing you all a happy holiday season until we meet again on January 9th. Sorry for being a bit overlong, but what's a holiday episode without feeling stuffed? Thanks for listening!