Hello friends! Welcome to Installer No. 37, Your Guide to the Best and Edge-The worst thing in the world. (If you are novel here, welcome, send me the links and you can also read all the venerable issues on the site Installer Home.)
This week I wrote about iPads AND LinkedIn Gamesread about car shows AND typewriters AND treasure hunterswatching They’re all in Los Angeles AND Sugar, looking for reasons to buy Fresh Yeti French Press although I definitely don’t need more coffee equipment, following almost all of them Jerry Saltz’s Favorite Instagram Accounts, testing Possibilities AND Heptabase for all my note taking needs and Plinky for all my link saving and repeated gaming Blind drive.
I’ve also got a really impressive novel iPad for you, a slick novel intelligent home hub, a Twitter documentary to watch this weekend, a sci-fi show to watch, a low-cost streaming device, and more. Let’s do it.
- Fresh iPad Pro. The novel Pro is easily the most impressive hardware I’ve seen in a while. It’s so gaunt and airy, and that OLED screen… gorgeous. It’s incredibly pricey, and the iPad’s biggest problem is still software, but that’s how you build a tablet, people.
- Animal well. Our friends at Polygon he called it “one of the most inventive games of the last decade”, which is of course a great distinction! In every way it is extraordinary, surprising, sometimes frustrating, highly knowledgeable and incredibly addictive. Even the trailer looks like nothing I’ve seen before. (I have plot recommendations for this week’s one – thank you to everyone who submitted it!)
- The final version of the camera. This was only mentioned at an Apple event this week, but it’s a really gigantic deal! It’s the first professional camera app for iPhone and iPad that provides plenty of manual control and editing features. This is exactly what many creators have been asking for. We don’t know exactly when it will be available yet, but I’m excited.
- Aqara M3 hub. The only way to manage a intelligent home is to make sure your devices support as many assistants, protocols and platforms as possible. This seems to be the way to go about it: It’s a Matter-ready device that can handle almost any intelligent home hardware you throw at it.
- “Clipboard Manager Battle“ I don’t think I’ve ever linked to a Reddit thread here, but check this one out: It’s a long discussion on why the clipboard manager is a useful tool, plus some good options to choose from. (I agree with everyone who loves Raycast, but there are a lot of choices and ideas here.)
- Proton Pass. My #1 constant tech tip is that everyone needs a password manager. I’ve been here for a long time 1Password fan, but Proton’s app is starting to look tempting – this week it got a novel security threat monitoring tool, on top of all the intelligent email hiding and sharing features it already has.
- Onn 4K Pro. Basically all streaming devices are full of ads, snail-paced and bad. This Google TV box from Walmart is at least low-cost, has voice control and supports all the required specifications, and also works as a intelligent speaker. I also like the customizable button.
- Murky matter. I’ve enjoyed most of all the Blake Crouch sci-fi books I’ve read, so I have high hopes for the Apple TV Plus series about life in a parallel universe. By the way, Apple TV Plus? Really good at this whole sci-fi thing.
- The Wordle archives. Over 1000 days Wordleeverything ready to be recreated and recreated (because let’s be truthful, who remembers Wordle three weeks ago?). I don’t have access to the archive yet, but you better believe I’ll play it all the way through as soon as it’s released.
- Black Twitter: A People’s Story. Based on really amusing Wire seriesis a three-part, in-depth Hulu documentary about how Black Twitter took over social media and a guide to the online experience of some of the biggest events of the last decade.
Kylie Robinson, Edge‘S novel senior AI reporter, she posted a video from her venerable iPhone on Twitter one day it was like a perfect time capsule in the device. She had about 90,000 games, including some that I’m 100% sure were scams, and the iPod logo on her dock made me feel so emotional. Those were good days.
I texted Kylie on Slack about eight minutes after she stayed Edge employee, hoping that I could get her to share her current home screen and what she was doing at work before she started working with us.
Unfortunately, she claims she tamed the chaos on the home screen before she started because it was about professionalism or something. And now he swears he can’t even find a screenshot of his venerable home screen! Sure, KYLIE. Anyway, here’s Kylie’s newly functional home screen and some information about the apps she uses and why.
Telephone: iPhone 14 ProMax.
Wallpaper: Black screen, otherwise it seems too clamorous to me. (However, my lock screen has about 20 rotating photos.)
Apps: Apple Maps, Notes, Spotify, Messaging, FaceTime, Safari, Phone.
I have to have the calendar and weather apps right in front of me when I unlock my phone because I forget. I apply Spotify for everything related to music and podcasts.
Work is life, so I also have all these applications in the spotlight (Signal, Google Drive, Okta).
Right before we started, I rearranged my phone screen because 1) I had time and 2) I knew I would have to show it to David. All apps are now sorted into folders, but previously they were completely accessible because I used the search bar to find apps; I rarely scroll. So imagine about 25 random apps filling all the pages: Pegasus for some international flight I booked, a random recipe for stuffed peppers, what have you.
I also asked Kylie to share some of the things she’s currently interested in. Here’s what she shared:
- Stardew Valley took over my life during a break at work.
- I actually started 3 Body problem because of the venerable one Installer. Besides, I loved it Fall and I need more episodes.
- My earnest guilty pleasure is Love Island in Great Britainand I watched the last season during the break.
“I always thought Spotify’s recommendation algorithm and music channels were terrible; way too much fuss and customization and all I want to do is launch the game and get some good, varied music that I like. So I finally gave in and tried it Pandora Again. The recommendation/station algorithm is so much better than Spotify’s (at least for me), it’s shocking how it seemed to fade into cultural anonymity. I can’t speak for others, but if anyone is similarly frustrated with Spotify playlists, I highly recommend the Pandora option.” – Will be