Connected 547: The Leakies - iOS 19 Rumors, CalDigit Docks, and Automation

Follow-Up and Feedback

• 💡 The discussion on camera "Mesa Plateau Turrets" continues with a recommendation for an HDMI Mesa, sparking thoughts on PC laptop camera tabs.
• ⚠️ Feedback on the "lens turret" terminology is acknowledged, with a link to a visually striking example that some find unsettling.
• 🎨 A listener suggests "True Tones" for a UI that adapts screen white balance to ambient colors, drawing parallels to spectrometers used for paint matching.
• 🚪 The idea of a "special door" for ports on thinner MacBooks is revisited, referencing the original MacBook Air's flip-down port door.

Website Redesign and Merch Updates

• 🎨 512 Pixels has undergone a significant redesign, moving away from its long-standing orange color scheme to a cooler blue palette with serif fonts, aiming for a 90s Apple aesthetic.
• 👕 Connected merch, including shirts and new hats (dad hats and trucker hats), is now available and shipping.

Thunderbolt 5 Docking Stations

• 🚀 CalDigit has announced the TS5 and TS5 Plus Thunderbolt 5 docks, offering advanced connectivity and charging capabilities.
• ⚡ The TS5 features 140W charging, support for dual 8K displays or triple 4K, and 2.5Gb Ethernet.
• 🌟 The TS5 Plus offers enhanced features like 10Gb Ethernet, 36W front-facing USB-C charging, and DisplayPort 2.1 for advanced display configurations.

iOS 19 Rumors and Design Predictions

• 📱 A game called "The Leakies" is played, ranking rumored iOS 19 design changes by likelihood.
• 🌟 Round app icons are ranked as most likely, drawing parallels to Android's long-standing icon customization and potential UI integration within iOS.
• ✨ A glassier look with translucency and subtle lighting effects, inspired by visionOS, is considered highly probable, alongside cross-platform cohesiveness across Apple's operating systems.
• 📌 Pill-shaped tab bars are also seen as likely, with existing implementations on iPadOS and visionOS.
• ❓ "Subtle lighting effects" and "more rounded expanding buttons" are ranked as less certain, with "simplified navigation and controls" being a vague but potentially related concept.

Automation and Workflow Innovations

• ⚙️ Federico shares his creative phase in automation, combining shortcuts, scripting, and AI.
• 📝 A "Sanitize Titles" shortcut uses regular expressions to remove illegal file characters across different operating systems for Obsidian.
• 🎙️ A simplified transcription workflow now passes raw audio directly to Gemini 2.5 Pro, bypassing audio cleanup and encoding steps, with Claude used for summarization.
• 💡 A new system for saving YouTube videos in Obsidian embeds the player and includes AI-generated summaries for searchable knowledge.
• 💻 The beta version of Pushcut for Mac allows for remote execution of shortcuts, particularly useful for long-running tasks and shell scripting.

Hardware and Gadgets

• 🎧 The Teenage Engineering TP7 field recorder is highlighted for its beautiful design, though its high price point ($1,500) is noted.