Andy Ihnatko (born November 18, 1967) is a tech author and former technology journalist for the ''

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'',. He currently resides in

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. He is a co-host on the Material podcast, on

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's network. He also appears on

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's podcasts, specifically MacBreak Weekly and

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, and is a regular on the MacNotables podcast hosted by Chuck Joiner, where he often is paired with fellow technology journalist Adam Engst. In September 2011, he launched an ongoing podcast called ''The Ihnatko Almanac'' with

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on Benjamin's 5by5 Studios network. Ihnatko has also appeared on the ''CBS Saturday

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'' on July 13, 2007, where he discussed applications for cell phones intended to imitate if not exceed the capabilities of the Apple iPhone. He appeared again on August 25, 2007, to report his conclusions after testing several urban legends about recovering

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that had been submerged in water. Ihnatko, for a brief time in July 2007, was believed to be the

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of the satirical "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" weblog, until his formal denial on July 24 in an article for Macworld. He has also formally neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the

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, which was rumoured on

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, comic books, cartoons, and science fiction. Andy described a game called "Web That Smut" which involved predicting how many mouse clicks would be required to reach

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from a given starting web page. The name was loosely based on the television game show "

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". Ihnatko is thought to have coined the term " Macquarium" to describe an aquarium made out of the empty shell of an early Macintosh computer. He wrote and posted online the first comprehensive set of instructionsMacQuarium
to construct one. On September 26, 2011, Andy joined podcast network 5by5 as co-host of a weekly show, ''The Ihnatko Almanac'', with

. In July 2015, Ihnatko, along with Russell Ivanovic and Yasmine Evjen, started the Material podcast on the

network. The podcast discusses technology company

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and related topics, and takes its name from the design language of the same name developed by Google.

References

External links

* – official site
Andy Ihnatko
interview on Dan Benjamin's ''The Pipeline'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ihnatko, Andy Living people American male journalists American male bloggers American bloggers American podcasters Chicago Sun-Times people 1967 births TWiT.tv people 21st-century American non-fiction writers