WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from December 18, 2023

Listener comments!
	🤖 5:43pm Webhamster Henry: My apps are the best apps!😃📱🎶🙉
	6:00pm ultradamno: Matt! Techtonwicks!
	6:00pm Joey C: Matt-Tonics
	6:01pm P-90: “Tech Warwick”? Is this really happening?
	6:01pm ultradamno: I like Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeños!
	6:01pm Yes: I need quick money, Is there a new app for that?
	6:01pm David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	6:01pm Sam: What’s the best ape?? Bonobo!!
	6:02pm Chris Hiatt: Blue cheese shortbread! Would you like a napkin?
	6:02pm David (in London): Ah, Matt, not Mark then I assume?
	🤖 6:03pm chresti: Hi Matt and Techton-0-Matts!
	6:03pm Chris Hiatt: It doesn't have any picture, but it has a heckuva sound.
	6:04pm Yes: 😎
	🤖 6:04pm Bas NL: Hi Matt! All!
	6:05pm Joey C: Garbage-Tech
	6:05pm Fredericks: So is this a music show? or is Matt going to tell us how to get rid of our privacy?
	6:05pm ultradamno: I was going to say, I thought the two of you were going to do your Bert & Ernie tech show...get well soon Mark!
	6:06pm P-90: I like how Matt pronounces “program” with an Austrian accent, like a Bond villain or something
	6:06pm Ciggy: The best App is the "unofficial" Woof Moo (WFMU) App for my android
	🤖 6:06pm chresti: Just talk about reverb..
	6:07pm mr 6: Matt Warwick is actually an AI experiment by Mark Hurst
	6:07pm Chris Hiatt: Hey Matty Warwick, how's Brucie coming along with the piano lessons?
	6:07pm P-90: What was the topic(s) originally planned for the Mark/Matt version of this?
	6:08pm bleubombersune: Good evening Matt & Olivia
	6:09pm jake: Besides the WFMU app, the best is the NJ transit app
	6:10pm P-90: Letterboxd is pretty good. So we’re starting on a high note.
	6:10pm Andres: By far most used app on this device is WFMU iOS app, followed by clock/alarm/timer app and then browser.
	6:10pm Tom from Stirling: Play a tech-y song, or two. To kill some time.
	🤖 6:10pm DjLorraine: Hello autoMattonics.
	6:11pm Ernst Unding: Highly riled right now
	6:11pm Joey C: My best APP is "Countdown." Free app that keeps track of life events. Give you days until, and how many days have passed since. How I use it? My daughter's wedding countdown. I started a new job, so I know how many days ago I started there. Simple, fun and useful.
	6:12pm jake: NJ transit app! Buy bus tickets LAST-MINUTE
	6:12pm jake: So crucial for a Jersey public transporter, NJ transit app
	6:12pm paddy in matawan: Goat Simulator
	6:12pm Acid Cazh: The first app I ever downloaded onto my iPhone in 2010, was "Tuner Lite" — a guitar tuner. I use it almost daily, and I've used it almost daily for more than thirteen years.
	6:12pm Tom from Stirling: Poor Mark. Look what's happening to his show.
	6:12pm pgalub: I kinda like NYC MTA Bus Times.
	6:13pm jake: What’s goat simulator…?
	6:13pm ultradamno: I use the WFMU app everytime you see me on here (and sometimes that you don't), I have the SOMA, Luxuria and KBOO apps for other radio listening, which are good. I have the you tube app, but never use it except on the PC.
	🤖 6:13pm DjLorraine: Phone Story. i never play it tho
	6:13pm The Chief: Love that they let Matty do this.
	6:13pm P-90: There’s a FREE DONUT APP?!!!
	6:13pm mndave: ↳ paddy in matawan @6:12 LICK BONUS
	🤖 6:13pm chresti: sigalert is one, weather underground is another..
	6:13pm bleubombersune: APT35 of Iran is a cool apt
	6:14pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @6:13 Thank god I was calling in....
	6:14pm paddy in matawan: ↳ jake @6:13 Exactly what it sounds like. Be a goat. Do goat things.
	6:14pm Ciggy: Mwah
	6:14pm Chris Hiatt: Radio Garden is pretty cool.
	6:14pm jake: Lol Dean!!!
	6:14pm Deano de los Muertos: I was on hold the entire time!!!
	6:14pm Lee B: Gixen is good, it an ebay bidding app...
	6:15pm Deano de los Muertos: And they were not playing the show on hold as usually happens
	🤖 6:15pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ P-90 @6:13 I wrote a set of Donut Apple Message Stickers, technically an app.
	6:15pm Deano de los Muertos: Did not hear the rules on hold
	6:15pm Lee B: Matt, have you tried Good To Go? It's an app that let you buy cheap food from restaurants so it doesn't get tossed out...
	6:16pm mzmm: better than seven-second delay!
	6:16pm jake: Good To Go is very Garbage Time it’s true
	6:16pm paddy in matawan: ↳ Chris Hiatt @6:14 I can't live without TuneIn Radio. I wish Radio Garden was easier to use. Also it's missing Chromecast support.
	6:17pm jake: Kanopy is a great app—free movies and TV shows with your local library card!
	6:18pm dale: shazam was a game changer for me. when is a website an app? isn't an app just a quicklink to the site sometimes?
	6:18pm Greg from ZONE 5: Letterboxd > IMDB
	6:18pm Joey C: Shout out to Mark Hurst- Hope you feel better soon, maestro.
	🤖 6:19pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ jake @6:17 Yeah I love Kanopy and I like their new pricing scheme!
	6:19pm ultradamno: IMDb used to be one of my social media sites, before they took the comments away because we can't have nice things.
	🤖 6:20pm Folsom: Letterboxd sounds like untapped, just trying to show off what you watch/drink.
	6:20pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @6:19 (in fairness, it really did get pretty nasty)
	🤖 6:20pm tim: ↳ Joey C @6:18 Mark’s gonna need another week off to recover from this show.
	🤖 6:20pm Deano de los Muertos: fine. I change my answer to the Final Fantasy VII app..can play the entire game on my phone. And it obviously can play the 9:42 music at times.
	6:20pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ dale @6:18 Totally. I can always tell much later, when I have been using the app at the local stupid supermarket: lots of REO Speedwagon and adjacent nonsense.
	6:20pm Ben from Newark: I use Letterboxd all the time as my official guide on what movies to see and which ones to skip
	6:22pm Joey!: Hey Olivia!! Hey Matt!!
	6:22pm ultradamno: Yeah, if the app comes with the device out of the box and it can't be deleted, it doesn't count
	6:23pm diciassette: One of my favorite apps is called "Talk Dim Sum." That's what it does! You can look at dim sum and practice pronouncing it.
	🤖 6:23pm Deano de los Muertos: sounds like Simon
	6:23pm diciassette: ↳ diciassette @6:23 But it doesn't give you free stuff, sadly.
	6:23pm Jim the Poet: I like the WFMU app
	🤖 6:24pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Jim the Poet @6:23 he hung up on me for that
	6:24pm dale: ↳ Chris Hiatt @6:20 keep riding the storm out!
	6:25pm Glenn: Oh no
	6:25pm dale: i though matt might have a domino's pizza app on his phone.
	6:25pm Jim the Poet: oops don't hang up on me
	6:25pm mndave: someone spell the name of that tappy-tap app
	6:26pm Jim the Poet: I love too good to go
	6:26pm olivia: Hatsune Miku i think
	6:26pm b!!!: ↳ mndave @6:25 www.colorfulstage.com
	6:27pm mndave: ↳ b!!! @6:26 much thanks!!
	6:28pm Secretary of Balloon Doggies: Sky Map is a cool app!
	6:28pm ultradamno: I use Shudder a lot too, maybe more than Netflix at this point.
	6:29pm queems: i missed the first half, hello
	6:29pm paddy: i miss flappy birb
	🤖 6:29pm Deano de los Muertos: I remember flappy bird for sure
	6:29pm mndave: Flappy Bird was probably removed because it was blatantly ripping off Mario Bros but you literally would just tap the bird through the tubes. I remember hearing other people on a bus in DC playing it through their earphone-bleeding in like 2014
	🤖 6:29pm Folsom: wow people don't know apps that came out 10 years ago
	6:30pm Juli: Saving this episode!!
	🤖 6:30pm Folsom: Also get Libby and Hoopla that also connects to your library like Kanopy.
	🤖 6:31pm Deano de los Muertos: Google Earth is cool too, but Mark will hunt me down…with bow and arrow of course
	6:31pm Secretary of Balloon Doggies: Also Exit Strategy if you use transit in NYC. Tells you exactly where on the train to go to be positioned for each exit and transfer (also has system and surface maps)
	6:31pm Mark: Watch the Chelsea Hotel documentary on Kanopy. Powerful.
	6:31pm mndave: Merlin Bird ID is great - either upload a photo of your BOI (bird of interest) or describe its characteristics
	6:32pm queems: +1000000 for nj transit
	6:32pm mr 6: Matt will not disagree Pokémon Go is the best app
	6:32pm Lieutenant Lambrusco: This guy is so silly….
	🤖 6:32pm Deano de los Muertos: sure wish I had that in 2010, catching my 4:30 trains to Hoboken
	6:32pm wenzo: Tempted to call in just to get hung up on but I won’t.
	6:33pm queems: +10000000000 for pokemon go
	6:34pm HyperDose: Game Boy emulators are the best thing to play on mobile
	6:34pm listener 126464: scallops wrapped in bacon
	6:34pm Juli: Clothing is Art
	6:34pm noiseician (Sean): Since y'all were talking about illegal downloads, Seeker is a great app. Soulseek for Android!
	6:36pm chresti: Mom needs to text!
	6:36pm Dano59: ↳ mndave @6:31 Merlin's bird-call ID is amazing! (I wish Icould get a version for my older iPhone SE)
	🤖 6:36pm Deano de los Muertos: volunteer to cohost more often, Matt. I’m sure Mark love/hates it and you’re a good odd couple 😆
	6:36pm paddy: WINNER WINNER
	🤖 6:37pm Deano de los Muertos: that is a great sounding app
	🤖 6:38pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ HyperDose @6:34 😮 I used to play a sega Genesis emulator on a laptop in the ticket booth at a slow movie theater
	6:40pm queems: picture this is another good plant id app
	🤖 6:41pm Handy Haversack: I got nothing for this one. Just to say that even the Merlin bird app is a location stealer that backdoors to Google. Nothing is safe. Throw away your phones and join me on the Dark Side.
	🤖 6:41pm Deano de los Muertos: my dad laughs at the fact that wild turkeys can fly but not land “they just smash into the tree”
	6:41pm queems: i’ve never seen any turkeys on valley road
	6:42pm HyperDose: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:38 Apparently the GameCube emulator is the most stable one. Need to put a Nintendo 64 emulator on this laptop
	6:42pm ultradamno: Gang is apparently a correct word for group of turkeys birdfact.com...
	🤖 6:42pm Deano de los Muertos: I worked in Clifton for 6 years but never saw turkeys there, some in Rutherford though…and I think the shiny objects is ravens
	🤖 6:43pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ HyperDose @6:42 I only really love one or 2 GameCube games, never actually owned one. Was a college roommates
	6:43pm Andres: Jersey turkeys are bad boys. That’s some Canada Goose type attitude. Local wild turkeys here are shy and deferential.
	🤖 6:43pm DjLorraine: (Long) Cooked oatmeal?
	6:44pm morphe': Crows are not so into Baubbles... they are into food and carrion and ... Magpies are more known for shiny bits and getting stuff ... hence my name Ekster = Magpie en Nederlands....
	6:44pm HyperDose: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:43 N64 and PS2 were my only consoles. Really want a Nintendo Switch since they're remastering a bunch of stuff
	6:44pm P-90: “Helicopters ‘n’ Velociraptors” would be a cool app
	6:44pm chresti: Crows, ravens love peanuts in the shell I throw them on the roof at work
	6:46pm jake: Used to live on that wild turkey block by Clifton
	6:46pm queems: i feed peanuts to the turkeys at my partner’s house. there are like 3-6 of them living in the trees
	🤖 6:46pm Webhamster Henry: I have like a gross of synthesizer and effect apps.
	🤖 6:46pm Handy Haversack: Turkeys are pretty awesome.
	6:47pm mndave: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:46 iOptigan and Model D are fantastic, as you likely know!
	🤖 6:47pm Webhamster Henry: The app version of my son's game is coming out in January...
	🤖 6:47pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ HyperDose @6:44 I do still own an N64 and Genesis. Fairly sure they both still work, now I want to hook them up permanently
	6:47pm ultradamno: Is there an app for keep track of how many bald eagles you've killed? I mean, it would just kind of be for those two guys, but...
	6:48pm mndave: ↳ ultradamno @6:47 illEagle?
	6:48pm Fredericks: Should you cook the oatmeal before putting it out?
	6:48pm SeaCreature: Dang it, I just logged back in and I’ve missed this?!?
	6:48pm queems: was it ringwood
	6:48pm HyperDose: As far as small mobile game developers go, I really enjoy what Fire Maple Games puts out. For fans of classic point-and-click adventures like Myst!
	6:48pm ultradamno: ↳ mndave @6:48 Bang! Title search done!
	6:48pm morphe': APPs - The Gov't of Israel and the IDF are using an AI App called "The Gospel" [true story] and it might be the worst App as it targets "targets" including Israeli Hostages trying to surrender to the IDF but shot dead by the IDF ...
	6:48pm P-90: What’s the name of the hiking app again?
	6:49pm queems: alltrails
	6:49pm HyperDose: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:47 If you want to hook them up to an HDTV look up popular upscaling devices on reddit. They're getting pretty good
	6:49pm Deano de los Muertos: So much hiking down here, I’m finding. I lived minutes from Cheesequake for 5 years, now near Hartshorne and Huber.
	6:49pm joe mulligan: the best app is WFMU seriously
	🤖 6:49pm NotARealDoctor: Can't call in because I'm at work but wanted to chime in with the TuneIn app because I use it constantly for listening to WFMU
	6:49pm P-90: Thanks @queems
	🤖 6:49pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ mndave @6:47 I have used iOptigan to make a listener polka for Stashu! (Polka Killer)
	6:50pm queems: anytime
	🤖 6:50pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ HyperDose @6:49 Will do
	6:50pm SeaCreature: I like the fmu app for its endless malfunctions
	6:50pm dale: i have a nypl liberry card number through libby but when i try to select a branch on kanopy it doesn't even find the nypl.
	🤖 6:50pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Matt, Olivia. We're all doomed.
	6:51pm dale: next time do what's the WORST app.
	🤖 6:51pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ dale @6:50 Yet another reason to move to the Mid Hudson Valley!
	🤖 6:51pm Handy Haversack: ↳ dale @6:50 Pretty sure NYPL dropped Kanopy over privacy concerns.
	6:51pm Hendrix wolfbat: hi guys are yall gonna list all the apps people suggested somewhere?
	6:51pm HyperDose: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:50 And we're about to be progged! 🎺🎸
	6:51pm AMYGDALA: Late to the show, so it may have been mentioned...SHAZAM music recognition, because although I love Jeff Sarge and his Reggae Schoolroom, he doesn't record a playlist.
	6:51pm mndave: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:50 Conversations with creators and thinkers who are charting the way forward in a tech-saturated society
	6:51pm dale: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:51 d'oh!
	🤖 6:52pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ HyperDose @6:48 I was also mesmerized by Myst, but I was still a child at the time it came out. I do remember the Cave text game. Xyzzy
	6:52pm ultradamno: ↳ dale @6:51 I can imagine Mark at home making notes for that very answer show
	6:52pm dale: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:51 don't think i can even join thrall library here in middletown. town of wawayanda voted down the teeny tax increase to allow us to use the library system.
	6:53pm queems: that’s awesome
	🤖 6:53pm DjLorraine: I use embiggen
	6:53pm hammy: any games made by zac gage. his games rock
	6:53pm HyperDose: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:52 Had a cousin who briefly stayed with us and kept a notebook of the clues. Helped me understand it more
	6:53pm dale: ↳ dale @6:52 ...i can walk in, just can't take anything out.
	🤖 6:54pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Hendrix wolfbat @6:51 Good idea..hopefully Matt will add them all to the playlist
	6:54pm jeanne from NW CT: What is it ? Nightshade?
	6:54pm P-90: (don’t tell Mark that Matt gave the green light to AI on the show)
	6:54pm Jim the Poet: I paid this caller to say this
	6:54pm jake: Jim the Crowet, Crowetry, Crowems
	6:55pm queems: crowetry
	6:55pm jake: Queems we’re on the same wave
	6:55pm wenzo: I love crows too… if there was an ap that let you talk to crows I’d get that… it could be called Murder…
	6:55pm queems: totally, it was a good one
	6:55pm wenzo: My old neighbor claimed that when he was a kid his family trained crows to weed their garden
	6:55pm Jim the Poet: Coincidentally there is a Crow Poem Sequel tonight I will dedicate to Matt
	6:56pm Dano59: that 'planets 2.0' sounds proprietary -- my favorite astronomy app is Night Sky and it's free . Compass points, outlines of the animals/gods the constellations represent, and planets and stars all look as they do.
	🤖 6:56pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ HyperDose @6:53 I’d love to attempt Myst as an adult. Closest thing I can compare to at my age was King’s Quest (believe my friends and I started on VI or VII)
	6:56pm Mare: Presents?!! What kind of presents??
	6:56pm ultradamno: I remember seeing James Spader on TV saying someone told him owls were stupid....which, from reputation, you'd think would be the most erudite of birds.
	🤖 6:57pm chresti: Crows remember you and will follow you!
	6:57pm Jim the Poet: I was always surprised that that Owl bit into the tootsie roll center of the tootsie pop
	6:57pm Chris Hiatt: This has been a lot of fun. Thanks for holding it down, Daddy Garbage!
	6:57pm Hendrix wolfbat: matt , why crows and not ravens?
	6:58pm Juli: I adore YouTube lol
	6:58pm mndave: ↳ chresti @6:57 Chickens can remember around 100 faces, cannot imagine what crows have on us
	6:58pm P-90: @Jim: as were we owl
	6:58pm Dano59: well, the FMU app and the YouTube app are about the same age ... out of step, Olivia? naaaah
	🤖 6:58pm Deano de los Muertos: Tomorrow is gonna be the first Garbage Time is miss in almost a year…..ah, the holiday life of a meat cutter: there is none.
	🤖 6:59pm Deano de los Muertos: so thank you for this, Matt and Olivia!
	6:59pm queems: thank you both/all
	6:59pm b!!!: Thanks Matt and Olivia!
	6:59pm jake: Sorry Mark but our individual opting out to tech monopolies won’t overthrow capitalism! We can watch YouTube sometimes while we organize our coworkers and neighbors to win a socialist future
	🤖 6:59pm chresti: Ravens rule!
	6:59pm Juli: www.youtube.com...
	🤖 6:59pm Bas NL: Thanks Matt! Thanks Olivia!
	6:59pm Hendrix wolfbat: it's kinda weird that no women called in
	6:59pm AMYGDALA: ↳ Jim the Poet @6:55 Jim, where we can find Crows 1.0? Bad Animals, date? Many thanks!
	6:59pm jake: Thanks Olivia and Papa Garbage
	6:59pm Juli: Thanks Everyone! Thanks Matt & Olivia!!!
	6:59pm ultradamno: ↳ Jim the Poet @6:57 ...and undermining the results of his scientific inquiry in the process!
	7:00pm HyperDose: Thanks Matt and Olivia!
	7:00pm Troy: Waze is pretty good
	7:00pm bleubombersune: Thanks Olivia & Matt
	7:00pm P-90: Thanks Matt and profuse thanks to Olivia for sticking around and making it a duo
	🤖 7:00pm chresti: Thanks Matt and Olivia!
	7:06pm Jim the Poet: ↳ AMYGDALA @6:59 How smart are crows? Corvids are large, big-brained birds that often live in intimate social groups of related and unrelated individuals. They are known to be intelligent— capable of using tools, recognizing human faces, and even understanding physics—and some researchers believe crows may rival apes for smarts. Crows know the difference between Jeff Bridges and Beau. Crows know the difference between The Velvet Underground and The Velvet Underground with Nico Crows know how to tie a bolo They know how to go with the flow. They know when to hold them and they know when to fold them. They know pinots, they know bordeauxs They know Baudelaire, they know Rimbaud. Crows know all the right answers on Game Shows Crows have read all of Foucault. All of it. They probably know where wojambo is. Crows know calculus, ekphrasis, telekinesis, sex magick, they know how to use an abacus They totally get the end of the sopranos Crows know why I always get the tower card in tarot They can name all the pharaohs, even the really boring ones. They know how to spell pharaoh, which I do not Crows know what you're supposed to know better than you're supposed to know it It isn't easy to know what a crow knows, just so you know. So now you know! Unless you're a crow. Then you knew.
	7:09pm AMYGDALA: ↳ Jim the Poet @7:06 This is fantastic Jim - love it! Thank you, much appreciated!
	7:15pm Jim the Poet: ↳ AMYGDALA @7:09 There's a sequel tonight!
	7:31pm AMYGDALA: ↳ Jim the Poet @7:15 Way cool! Thanks so much for the heads up...Hope I can catch it. If not, I'll rewind the archives.
	7:50pm SeaCreature: This has been swell! Thanks
	11:17am AMYGDALA: Here are most – possibly all - of the apps mentioned by callers, posters and hosters…. from the fantastic fill-in of Mark Hurst’s informative show TechTonic by the super-entertaining duo of Mark&Olivia on Dec. 18th at 6PM. I highly recommend rewinding archives if you missed it. Please do your research on the appropriateness and safety (and legality) of an app that may be of interest. Please pardon the length of the list: CountDown – track life events by date as they occurred SigAlert – traffic WeatherUnderground – umm, not sure, traffic maybe? TooGoodToGo – borderline spoiled food for sale Kanopy – free movies & TV; with a card from a local library Letterboxd (IMDB) – all things movies; reviews, discussions, and the like. PeriodicTable – cool app for info. on all of the elements from Actinium to Zirconium SkyMap Planets 5.0 Night Sky Shutter – waste time creating attention-grabbing pics for all of your social media sites Shudder – stream horror and other gory crap ExitStrategy – get off the New York trains like a pro Seeker Clash of Clans – some sort of game, file under mindless RoadBlock – a game that you’ll lose every time if you’re over 30 AllTrails – get lost in the Pine Barrons and then fire up your phone to try to get home. Free version and fee version; hiking trails MerlinBirds – offering from Cornell U. They may be in bed with The Google to track your every move. This according to listener Handy – thanks for the heads up Handy! PlantNet – easily determine whether you’re growing Sativa or Indica! iNaturalist PlantNet Chess – the game. The avail assortment is virtually endless. Make new synapses while using your Smarter-than-you phone SlyDial – bypass having to speak to that chatty-Cathy or anyone else…just call them and be directed to their voicemail. Voice Activated Recorder NJ Transit – move about the Garden State on a bus or train with ease I applaud Mark and Olivia and the many callers and posters for their contributions, insights, and humor. It was truly a gem of a show, in my less-than-humble opinion.
	11:36am AMYGDALA: oops - sorry - I omitted two apps from the list... - TuneInRadio - radio from (virtually) every conceivable nook and cranny on the globe. and of course.... - the highly-coveted WFMU app
	2:16pm AMYGDALA: ↳ AMYGDALA @11:17 Pardon me, I meant to say Matt & Olivia filled in for Mark - not Mark & Olivia filled in... I offer up my profuse apologies for the glaring error.

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from December 18, 2023

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Listener comments!
	🤖 5:43pm Webhamster Henry: My apps are the best apps!😃📱🎶🙉
	6:00pm ultradamno: Matt! Techtonwicks!
	6:00pm Joey C: Matt-Tonics
	6:01pm P-90: “Tech Warwick”? Is this really happening?
	6:01pm ultradamno: I like Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeños!
	6:01pm Yes: I need quick money, Is there a new app for that?
	6:01pm David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	6:01pm Sam: What’s the best ape?? Bonobo!!
	6:02pm Chris Hiatt: Blue cheese shortbread! Would you like a napkin?
	6:02pm David (in London): Ah, Matt, not Mark then I assume?
	🤖 6:03pm chresti: Hi Matt and Techton-0-Matts!
	6:03pm Chris Hiatt: It doesn't have any picture, but it has a heckuva sound.
	6:04pm Yes: 😎
	🤖 6:04pm Bas NL: Hi Matt! All!
	6:05pm Joey C: Garbage-Tech
	6:05pm Fredericks: So is this a music show? or is Matt going to tell us how to get rid of our privacy?
	6:05pm ultradamno: I was going to say, I thought the two of you were going to do your Bert & Ernie tech show...get well soon Mark!
	6:06pm P-90: I like how Matt pronounces “program” with an Austrian accent, like a Bond villain or something
	6:06pm Ciggy: The best App is the "unofficial" Woof Moo (WFMU) App for my android
	🤖 6:06pm chresti: Just talk about reverb..
	6:07pm mr 6: Matt Warwick is actually an AI experiment by Mark Hurst
	6:07pm Chris Hiatt: Hey Matty Warwick, how's Brucie coming along with the piano lessons?
	6:07pm P-90: What was the topic(s) originally planned for the Mark/Matt version of this?
	6:08pm bleubombersune: Good evening Matt & Olivia
	6:09pm jake: Besides the WFMU app, the best is the NJ transit app
	6:10pm P-90: Letterboxd is pretty good. So we’re starting on a high note.
	6:10pm Andres: By far most used app on this device is WFMU iOS app, followed by clock/alarm/timer app and then browser.
	6:10pm Tom from Stirling: Play a tech-y song, or two. To kill some time.
	🤖 6:10pm DjLorraine: Hello autoMattonics.
	6:11pm Ernst Unding: Highly riled right now
	6:11pm Joey C: My best APP is "Countdown." Free app that keeps track of life events. Give you days until, and how many days have passed since. How I use it? My daughter's wedding countdown. I started a new job, so I know how many days ago I started there. Simple, fun and useful.
	6:12pm jake: NJ transit app! Buy bus tickets LAST-MINUTE
	6:12pm jake: So crucial for a Jersey public transporter, NJ transit app
	6:12pm paddy in matawan: Goat Simulator
	6:12pm Acid Cazh: The first app I ever downloaded onto my iPhone in 2010, was "Tuner Lite" — a guitar tuner. I use it almost daily, and I've used it almost daily for more than thirteen years.
	6:12pm Tom from Stirling: Poor Mark. Look what's happening to his show.
	6:12pm pgalub: I kinda like NYC MTA Bus Times.
	6:13pm jake: What’s goat simulator…?
	6:13pm ultradamno: I use the WFMU app everytime you see me on here (and sometimes that you don't), I have the SOMA, Luxuria and KBOO apps for other radio listening, which are good. I have the you tube app, but never use it except on the PC.
	🤖 6:13pm DjLorraine: Phone Story. i never play it tho
	6:13pm The Chief: Love that they let Matty do this.
	6:13pm P-90: There’s a FREE DONUT APP?!!!
	6:13pm mndave: ↳ paddy in matawan @6:12 LICK BONUS
	🤖 6:13pm chresti: sigalert is one, weather underground is another..
	6:13pm bleubombersune: APT35 of Iran is a cool apt
	6:14pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @6:13 Thank god I was calling in....
	6:14pm paddy in matawan: ↳ jake @6:13 Exactly what it sounds like. Be a goat. Do goat things.
	6:14pm Ciggy: Mwah
	6:14pm Chris Hiatt: Radio Garden is pretty cool.
	6:14pm jake: Lol Dean!!!
	6:14pm Deano de los Muertos: I was on hold the entire time!!!
	6:14pm Lee B: Gixen is good, it an ebay bidding app...
	6:15pm Deano de los Muertos: And they were not playing the show on hold as usually happens
	🤖 6:15pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ P-90 @6:13 I wrote a set of Donut Apple Message Stickers, technically an app.
	6:15pm Deano de los Muertos: Did not hear the rules on hold
	6:15pm Lee B: Matt, have you tried Good To Go? It's an app that let you buy cheap food from restaurants so it doesn't get tossed out...
	6:16pm mzmm: better than seven-second delay!
	6:16pm jake: Good To Go is very Garbage Time it’s true
	6:16pm paddy in matawan: ↳ Chris Hiatt @6:14 I can't live without TuneIn Radio. I wish Radio Garden was easier to use. Also it's missing Chromecast support.
	6:17pm jake: Kanopy is a great app—free movies and TV shows with your local library card!
	6:18pm dale: shazam was a game changer for me. when is a website an app? isn't an app just a quicklink to the site sometimes?
	6:18pm Greg from ZONE 5: Letterboxd > IMDB
	6:18pm Joey C: Shout out to Mark Hurst- Hope you feel better soon, maestro.
	🤖 6:19pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ jake @6:17 Yeah I love Kanopy and I like their new pricing scheme!
	6:19pm ultradamno: IMDb used to be one of my social media sites, before they took the comments away because we can't have nice things.
	🤖 6:20pm Folsom: Letterboxd sounds like untapped, just trying to show off what you watch/drink.
	6:20pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @6:19 (in fairness, it really did get pretty nasty)
	🤖 6:20pm tim: ↳ Joey C @6:18 Mark’s gonna need another week off to recover from this show.
	🤖 6:20pm Deano de los Muertos: fine. I change my answer to the Final Fantasy VII app..can play the entire game on my phone. And it obviously can play the 9:42 music at times.
	6:20pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ dale @6:18 Totally. I can always tell much later, when I have been using the app at the local stupid supermarket: lots of REO Speedwagon and adjacent nonsense.
	6:20pm Ben from Newark: I use Letterboxd all the time as my official guide on what movies to see and which ones to skip
	6:22pm Joey!: Hey Olivia!! Hey Matt!!
	6:22pm ultradamno: Yeah, if the app comes with the device out of the box and it can't be deleted, it doesn't count
	6:23pm diciassette: One of my favorite apps is called "Talk Dim Sum." That's what it does! You can look at dim sum and practice pronouncing it.
	🤖 6:23pm Deano de los Muertos: sounds like Simon
	6:23pm diciassette: ↳ diciassette @6:23 But it doesn't give you free stuff, sadly.
	6:23pm Jim the Poet: I like the WFMU app
	🤖 6:24pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Jim the Poet @6:23 he hung up on me for that
	6:24pm dale: ↳ Chris Hiatt @6:20 keep riding the storm out!
	6:25pm Glenn: Oh no
	6:25pm dale: i though matt might have a domino's pizza app on his phone.
	6:25pm Jim the Poet: oops don't hang up on me
	6:25pm mndave: someone spell the name of that tappy-tap app
	6:26pm Jim the Poet: I love too good to go
	6:26pm olivia: Hatsune Miku i think
	6:26pm b!!!: ↳ mndave @6:25 www.colorfulstage.com
	6:27pm mndave: ↳ b!!! @6:26 much thanks!!
	6:28pm Secretary of Balloon Doggies: Sky Map is a cool app!
	6:28pm ultradamno: I use Shudder a lot too, maybe more than Netflix at this point.
	6:29pm queems: i missed the first half, hello
	6:29pm paddy: i miss flappy birb
	🤖 6:29pm Deano de los Muertos: I remember flappy bird for sure
	6:29pm mndave: Flappy Bird was probably removed because it was blatantly ripping off Mario Bros but you literally would just tap the bird through the tubes. I remember hearing other people on a bus in DC playing it through their earphone-bleeding in like 2014
	🤖 6:29pm Folsom: wow people don't know apps that came out 10 years ago
	6:30pm Juli: Saving this episode!!
	🤖 6:30pm Folsom: Also get Libby and Hoopla that also connects to your library like Kanopy.
	🤖 6:31pm Deano de los Muertos: Google Earth is cool too, but Mark will hunt me down…with bow and arrow of course
	6:31pm Secretary of Balloon Doggies: Also Exit Strategy if you use transit in NYC. Tells you exactly where on the train to go to be positioned for each exit and transfer (also has system and surface maps)
	6:31pm Mark: Watch the Chelsea Hotel documentary on Kanopy. Powerful.
	6:31pm mndave: Merlin Bird ID is great - either upload a photo of your BOI (bird of interest) or describe its characteristics
	6:32pm queems: +1000000 for nj transit
	6:32pm mr 6: Matt will not disagree Pokémon Go is the best app
	6:32pm Lieutenant Lambrusco: This guy is so silly….
	🤖 6:32pm Deano de los Muertos: sure wish I had that in 2010, catching my 4:30 trains to Hoboken
	6:32pm wenzo: Tempted to call in just to get hung up on but I won’t.
	6:33pm queems: +10000000000 for pokemon go
	6:34pm HyperDose: Game Boy emulators are the best thing to play on mobile
	6:34pm listener 126464: scallops wrapped in bacon
	6:34pm Juli: Clothing is Art
	6:34pm noiseician (Sean): Since y'all were talking about illegal downloads, Seeker is a great app. Soulseek for Android!
	6:36pm chresti: Mom needs to text!
	6:36pm Dano59: ↳ mndave @6:31 Merlin's bird-call ID is amazing! (I wish Icould get a version for my older iPhone SE)
	🤖 6:36pm Deano de los Muertos: volunteer to cohost more often, Matt. I’m sure Mark love/hates it and you’re a good odd couple 😆
	6:36pm paddy: WINNER WINNER
	🤖 6:37pm Deano de los Muertos: that is a great sounding app
	🤖 6:38pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ HyperDose @6:34 😮 I used to play a sega Genesis emulator on a laptop in the ticket booth at a slow movie theater
	6:40pm queems: picture this is another good plant id app
	🤖 6:41pm Handy Haversack: I got nothing for this one. Just to say that even the Merlin bird app is a location stealer that backdoors to Google. Nothing is safe. Throw away your phones and join me on the Dark Side.
	🤖 6:41pm Deano de los Muertos: my dad laughs at the fact that wild turkeys can fly but not land “they just smash into the tree”
	6:41pm queems: i’ve never seen any turkeys on valley road
	6:42pm HyperDose: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:38 Apparently the GameCube emulator is the most stable one. Need to put a Nintendo 64 emulator on this laptop
	6:42pm ultradamno: Gang is apparently a correct word for group of turkeys birdfact.com...
	🤖 6:42pm Deano de los Muertos: I worked in Clifton for 6 years but never saw turkeys there, some in Rutherford though…and I think the shiny objects is ravens
	🤖 6:43pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ HyperDose @6:42 I only really love one or 2 GameCube games, never actually owned one. Was a college roommates
	6:43pm Andres: Jersey turkeys are bad boys. That’s some Canada Goose type attitude. Local wild turkeys here are shy and deferential.
	🤖 6:43pm DjLorraine: (Long) Cooked oatmeal?
	6:44pm morphe': Crows are not so into Baubbles... they are into food and carrion and ... Magpies are more known for shiny bits and getting stuff ... hence my name Ekster = Magpie en Nederlands....
	6:44pm HyperDose: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:43 N64 and PS2 were my only consoles. Really want a Nintendo Switch since they're remastering a bunch of stuff
	6:44pm P-90: “Helicopters ‘n’ Velociraptors” would be a cool app
	6:44pm chresti: Crows, ravens love peanuts in the shell I throw them on the roof at work
	6:46pm jake: Used to live on that wild turkey block by Clifton
	6:46pm queems: i feed peanuts to the turkeys at my partner’s house. there are like 3-6 of them living in the trees
	🤖 6:46pm Webhamster Henry: I have like a gross of synthesizer and effect apps.
	🤖 6:46pm Handy Haversack: Turkeys are pretty awesome.
	6:47pm mndave: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:46 iOptigan and Model D are fantastic, as you likely know!
	🤖 6:47pm Webhamster Henry: The app version of my son's game is coming out in January...
	🤖 6:47pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ HyperDose @6:44 I do still own an N64 and Genesis. Fairly sure they both still work, now I want to hook them up permanently
	6:47pm ultradamno: Is there an app for keep track of how many bald eagles you've killed? I mean, it would just kind of be for those two guys, but...
	6:48pm mndave: ↳ ultradamno @6:47 illEagle?
	6:48pm Fredericks: Should you cook the oatmeal before putting it out?
	6:48pm SeaCreature: Dang it, I just logged back in and I’ve missed this?!?
	6:48pm queems: was it ringwood
	6:48pm HyperDose: As far as small mobile game developers go, I really enjoy what Fire Maple Games puts out. For fans of classic point-and-click adventures like Myst!
	6:48pm ultradamno: ↳ mndave @6:48 Bang! Title search done!
	6:48pm morphe': APPs - The Gov't of Israel and the IDF are using an AI App called "The Gospel" [true story] and it might be the worst App as it targets "targets" including Israeli Hostages trying to surrender to the IDF but shot dead by the IDF ...
	6:48pm P-90: What’s the name of the hiking app again?
	6:49pm queems: alltrails
	6:49pm HyperDose: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:47 If you want to hook them up to an HDTV look up popular upscaling devices on reddit. They're getting pretty good
	6:49pm Deano de los Muertos: So much hiking down here, I’m finding. I lived minutes from Cheesequake for 5 years, now near Hartshorne and Huber.
	6:49pm joe mulligan: the best app is WFMU seriously
	🤖 6:49pm NotARealDoctor: Can't call in because I'm at work but wanted to chime in with the TuneIn app because I use it constantly for listening to WFMU
	6:49pm P-90: Thanks @queems
	🤖 6:49pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ mndave @6:47 I have used iOptigan to make a listener polka for Stashu! (Polka Killer)
	6:50pm queems: anytime
	🤖 6:50pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ HyperDose @6:49 Will do
	6:50pm SeaCreature: I like the fmu app for its endless malfunctions
	6:50pm dale: i have a nypl liberry card number through libby but when i try to select a branch on kanopy it doesn't even find the nypl.
	🤖 6:50pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Matt, Olivia. We're all doomed.
	6:51pm dale: next time do what's the WORST app.
	🤖 6:51pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ dale @6:50 Yet another reason to move to the Mid Hudson Valley!
	🤖 6:51pm Handy Haversack: ↳ dale @6:50 Pretty sure NYPL dropped Kanopy over privacy concerns.
	6:51pm Hendrix wolfbat: hi guys are yall gonna list all the apps people suggested somewhere?
	6:51pm HyperDose: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:50 And we're about to be progged! 🎺🎸
	6:51pm AMYGDALA: Late to the show, so it may have been mentioned...SHAZAM music recognition, because although I love Jeff Sarge and his Reggae Schoolroom, he doesn't record a playlist.
	6:51pm mndave: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:50 Conversations with creators and thinkers who are charting the way forward in a tech-saturated society
	6:51pm dale: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:51 d'oh!
	🤖 6:52pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ HyperDose @6:48 I was also mesmerized by Myst, but I was still a child at the time it came out. I do remember the Cave text game. Xyzzy
	6:52pm ultradamno: ↳ dale @6:51 I can imagine Mark at home making notes for that very answer show
	6:52pm dale: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:51 don't think i can even join thrall library here in middletown. town of wawayanda voted down the teeny tax increase to allow us to use the library system.
	6:53pm queems: that’s awesome
	🤖 6:53pm DjLorraine: I use embiggen
	6:53pm hammy: any games made by zac gage. his games rock
	6:53pm HyperDose: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:52 Had a cousin who briefly stayed with us and kept a notebook of the clues. Helped me understand it more
	6:53pm dale: ↳ dale @6:52 ...i can walk in, just can't take anything out.
	🤖 6:54pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Hendrix wolfbat @6:51 Good idea..hopefully Matt will add them all to the playlist
	6:54pm jeanne from NW CT: What is it ? Nightshade?
	6:54pm P-90: (don’t tell Mark that Matt gave the green light to AI on the show)
	6:54pm Jim the Poet: I paid this caller to say this
	6:54pm jake: Jim the Crowet, Crowetry, Crowems
	6:55pm queems: crowetry
	6:55pm jake: Queems we’re on the same wave
	6:55pm wenzo: I love crows too… if there was an ap that let you talk to crows I’d get that… it could be called Murder…
	6:55pm queems: totally, it was a good one
	6:55pm wenzo: My old neighbor claimed that when he was a kid his family trained crows to weed their garden
	6:55pm Jim the Poet: Coincidentally there is a Crow Poem Sequel tonight I will dedicate to Matt
	6:56pm Dano59: that 'planets 2.0' sounds proprietary -- my favorite astronomy app is Night Sky and it's free . Compass points, outlines of the animals/gods the constellations represent, and planets and stars all look as they do.
	🤖 6:56pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ HyperDose @6:53 I’d love to attempt Myst as an adult. Closest thing I can compare to at my age was King’s Quest (believe my friends and I started on VI or VII)
	6:56pm Mare: Presents?!! What kind of presents??
	6:56pm ultradamno: I remember seeing James Spader on TV saying someone told him owls were stupid....which, from reputation, you'd think would be the most erudite of birds.
	🤖 6:57pm chresti: Crows remember you and will follow you!
	6:57pm Jim the Poet: I was always surprised that that Owl bit into the tootsie roll center of the tootsie pop
	6:57pm Chris Hiatt: This has been a lot of fun. Thanks for holding it down, Daddy Garbage!
	6:57pm Hendrix wolfbat: matt , why crows and not ravens?
	6:58pm Juli: I adore YouTube lol
	6:58pm mndave: ↳ chresti @6:57 Chickens can remember around 100 faces, cannot imagine what crows have on us
	6:58pm P-90: @Jim: as were we owl
	6:58pm Dano59: well, the FMU app and the YouTube app are about the same age ... out of step, Olivia? naaaah
	🤖 6:58pm Deano de los Muertos: Tomorrow is gonna be the first Garbage Time is miss in almost a year…..ah, the holiday life of a meat cutter: there is none.
	🤖 6:59pm Deano de los Muertos: so thank you for this, Matt and Olivia!
	6:59pm queems: thank you both/all
	6:59pm b!!!: Thanks Matt and Olivia!
	6:59pm jake: Sorry Mark but our individual opting out to tech monopolies won’t overthrow capitalism! We can watch YouTube sometimes while we organize our coworkers and neighbors to win a socialist future
	🤖 6:59pm chresti: Ravens rule!
	6:59pm Juli: www.youtube.com...
	🤖 6:59pm Bas NL: Thanks Matt! Thanks Olivia!
	6:59pm Hendrix wolfbat: it's kinda weird that no women called in
	6:59pm AMYGDALA: ↳ Jim the Poet @6:55 Jim, where we can find Crows 1.0? Bad Animals, date? Many thanks!
	6:59pm jake: Thanks Olivia and Papa Garbage
	6:59pm Juli: Thanks Everyone! Thanks Matt & Olivia!!!
	6:59pm ultradamno: ↳ Jim the Poet @6:57 ...and undermining the results of his scientific inquiry in the process!
	7:00pm HyperDose: Thanks Matt and Olivia!
	7:00pm Troy: Waze is pretty good
	7:00pm bleubombersune: Thanks Olivia & Matt
	7:00pm P-90: Thanks Matt and profuse thanks to Olivia for sticking around and making it a duo
	🤖 7:00pm chresti: Thanks Matt and Olivia!
	7:06pm Jim the Poet: ↳ AMYGDALA @6:59 How smart are crows? Corvids are large, big-brained birds that often live in intimate social groups of related and unrelated individuals. They are known to be intelligent— capable of using tools, recognizing human faces, and even understanding physics—and some researchers believe crows may rival apes for smarts. Crows know the difference between Jeff Bridges and Beau. Crows know the difference between The Velvet Underground and The Velvet Underground with Nico Crows know how to tie a bolo They know how to go with the flow. They know when to hold them and they know when to fold them. They know pinots, they know bordeauxs They know Baudelaire, they know Rimbaud. Crows know all the right answers on Game Shows Crows have read all of Foucault. All of it. They probably know where wojambo is. Crows know calculus, ekphrasis, telekinesis, sex magick, they know how to use an abacus They totally get the end of the sopranos Crows know why I always get the tower card in tarot They can name all the pharaohs, even the really boring ones. They know how to spell pharaoh, which I do not Crows know what you're supposed to know better than you're supposed to know it It isn't easy to know what a crow knows, just so you know. So now you know! Unless you're a crow. Then you knew.
	7:09pm AMYGDALA: ↳ Jim the Poet @7:06 This is fantastic Jim - love it! Thank you, much appreciated!
	7:15pm Jim the Poet: ↳ AMYGDALA @7:09 There's a sequel tonight!
	7:31pm AMYGDALA: ↳ Jim the Poet @7:15 Way cool! Thanks so much for the heads up...Hope I can catch it. If not, I'll rewind the archives.
	7:50pm SeaCreature: This has been swell! Thanks
	11:17am AMYGDALA: Here are most – possibly all - of the apps mentioned by callers, posters and hosters…. from the fantastic fill-in of Mark Hurst’s informative show TechTonic by the super-entertaining duo of Mark&Olivia on Dec. 18th at 6PM. I highly recommend rewinding archives if you missed it. Please do your research on the appropriateness and safety (and legality) of an app that may be of interest. Please pardon the length of the list: CountDown – track life events by date as they occurred SigAlert – traffic WeatherUnderground – umm, not sure, traffic maybe? TooGoodToGo – borderline spoiled food for sale Kanopy – free movies & TV; with a card from a local library Letterboxd (IMDB) – all things movies; reviews, discussions, and the like. PeriodicTable – cool app for info. on all of the elements from Actinium to Zirconium SkyMap Planets 5.0 Night Sky Shutter – waste time creating attention-grabbing pics for all of your social media sites Shudder – stream horror and other gory crap ExitStrategy – get off the New York trains like a pro Seeker Clash of Clans – some sort of game, file under mindless RoadBlock – a game that you’ll lose every time if you’re over 30 AllTrails – get lost in the Pine Barrons and then fire up your phone to try to get home. Free version and fee version; hiking trails MerlinBirds – offering from Cornell U. They may be in bed with The Google to track your every move. This according to listener Handy – thanks for the heads up Handy! PlantNet – easily determine whether you’re growing Sativa or Indica! iNaturalist PlantNet Chess – the game. The avail assortment is virtually endless. Make new synapses while using your Smarter-than-you phone SlyDial – bypass having to speak to that chatty-Cathy or anyone else…just call them and be directed to their voicemail. Voice Activated Recorder NJ Transit – move about the Garden State on a bus or train with ease I applaud Mark and Olivia and the many callers and posters for their contributions, insights, and humor. It was truly a gem of a show, in my less-than-humble opinion.
	11:36am AMYGDALA: oops - sorry - I omitted two apps from the list... - TuneInRadio - radio from (virtually) every conceivable nook and cranny on the globe. and of course.... - the highly-coveted WFMU app
	2:16pm AMYGDALA: ↳ AMYGDALA @11:17 Pardon me, I meant to say Matt & Olivia filled in for Mark - not Mark & Olivia filled in... I offer up my profuse apologies for the glaring error.

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