Hello friends! Welcome to Installer #34, your guide to the best and newest things in the world. (If you are latest here, welcome, glad you found us, and you may also read all the old issues on the Installer home page.)
I even have a terrific latest video game show, a brand new e-book reader price watching, one other documentary about how bad technology is, a sweet latest drone, and far more.
I even have a matter that I am unable to imagine I have never asked yet: What do you employ artificial intelligence for? Do you employ Copilot to put in writing all of your emails? Cooking with ChatGPT? Checking every thought with an app I’ve never even heard of? Nothing comes from AI in any respect? I would like to know what apps and platforms you employ and the way you employ them – I’m obsessive about determining what AI actually does and I would like to listen to all of your thoughts.
Okay, I actually have quite a lot of stuff to do that week and I actually have to catch a plane. (If you are in Chicago, come see me discuss AIand are available say hello!) Let’s go.
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I knew Eryk Migikowski since he was making smartwatches, long before everyone was making smartwatches cool. After years of running Pebble and dealing as a VC, he has spent the previous couple of years constructing a cross-platform messaging app called Beeper. It’s a terrific app, had a nasty battle with Apple, and was recently acquired by Automattic, which owns WordPress.com, Tumblr, and quite a lot of other things. Eric is now liable for the big communications plans at Automattic – and so they are really big.
I asked Eric to share his home screen knowing two things: he’s a die-hard Android fan and he uses quite a lot of messaging apps. I mean, he created a messaging app to gather all these messaging apps, so what do you expect? Eric can be Canadian, which suggests… I do not know exactly. But I wanted to search out out.
Here’s Eric’s home screen and what apps he uses and why:
Telephone: Samsung Z Flip 5 – the smallest Android phone currently available on the market!
Wallpaper: No idea, probably default?
Apps: Maps, photos, YouTube music, phone, camera, superman, beeper, Chrome.
One of the things I like most about Android is that it takes just a number of taps to finish tasks. I like having Calendar and Google Search right on the home screen. We’ve added a search button to the Beeper Android widget for the same reason! One click + enter name = message to anyone.
I still have ALL the chat apps installed because I would like to keep watch over them!
I also asked Eric to share a few of the things he’s currently excited about. Here’s what he shared:
- I actually have two children under the age of 4, so I haven’t got much free time, but we’re comfortable 3 Body problem on Netflix and Mr. and Mrs. Smith!
- I’m listening Confidential kitchen by Anthony Bourdain and I just finished reading it There is not any Antimemetics Department by qntm – my latest favorite creator! I highly recommend their story “Lena” It made me reconsider wanting to upload my brain in some unspecified time in the future.
- The best latest app is ChatGPT — I exploit the audio versions to create stories and include my kids in them!
Here’s what the installer community is as much as this week. I also need to know what you’re doing now! Email installer@theverge.com or text +1 203-570-8663 with recommendations for anything and the whole lot and we’ll feature a few of our favorites here each week.
“Tom Scott’s weekly newsletter. Thanks to this newsletter, I have found some of my favorite things on the Internet, such as: Kern type, this post about anagramsand much more.” – Nachiketa
“I received Grindstone After some time, I managed to complete the main levels, bonus levels and the “cosmic dark side” 100% and collect all the achievements. The game itself was worth the price of Apple Arcade!” – Rod
“I recently moved to the UK and needed to set up a bank. I choose Revolut. The app is feature-rich and somewhat reminiscent of Simple (RIP). It’s a bit heavy and I really had to get used to it, but it works and is just amazing. The multinational and multicurrency usage is impressive. It’s also available in the US!” -Greg
“I used AntennaPod for over a yr and it is a wonderful app that may replace Google Podcasts. It’s open source, ad-free, analytics-free, and the people working on it are amazing: they recurrently call the community to debate the project, and so they take feedback very seriously. Only for Android!” – Chethan
“Game Dune: Empire (on Android). An excellent technique to find out about this amazing board game! AIs are hard!” – Gary
“I caught up with unsung criminals John Rogers on Youtube. I usually shoot historical films while walking around different areas of London, but this one caught my attention him going to North Ockendon, a small village that is technically considered part of London. -Yo
“I watched the early episodes again The Big Bang Theory and I wonder at all the older technology. There’s an iPod docking station in every apartment, a whole subplot about Siri when it launched on 4s, and super massive Windows laptops. – Caleb
“Gives Lyrical shot this week. Yep, ANOTHER social media app. They claim it’s built to be more real-time than Threads, so it’s better for news, which is good, and it’s based on ActivityPub, which is great. Federation for victory! I’m still trying, but it’s interesting.” — Sighs
“So I played Rhythm, a puzzle game for iOS with really great visuals, the main theme of which is world music. They have plenty of Spotify playlists with examples of the music that inspired the game, but I use Apple Music. So I turn to Changing the song, a surprisingly useful little app that can, say, share a Tidal link to a song scraped on Last.fm or copy old iTunes playlists directly to YouTube. Even if it can’t find a song, it’s very easy to help you, a human, match the right one. Switching music streaming services has been incredibly useful and is still useful for sending and receiving links to my friends on Spotify.” – Daniel
A couple of weeks ago I complained here a couple of broken keyboard and a sophisticated relationship with a clicky mechanical keyboard. Thank you to everyone who reached out with ideas! Some of you said, “Buy these switches and this keyboard, customize them, and it will only cost you $95,000,” and to all of you, thanks, you’re my favorite. But the most important suggestion I received was Logitech MX keys, which I finally bought. I like this thing to this point. I’m definitely no expert, but it surely clicks without being noisy, has about six trillion shortcut keys and customization options, and typing on it’s each incredible and simple. The backlighting is a bit fickle and uneven, but I’ll take that in exchange for the hardware microphone mute key that makes every meeting 10 percent easier to make use of.
Thank you to everyone who advisable things! One day I’ll switch to a mechanical keyboard, and I promise to maintain you posted on all the silly decisions I make.
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