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This week I read Shane and reese witherspoon and Hollywood Ponzi Schemerecorded in Paperytest lazy For all my link dumps and notes, drink a lot poppy Soda, developing a macaroni and cheese recipe that my kids actually love, and putting a price on flights Wu-Tang Clan Listening Session In Australia.
I’ve also got you covered with a great new app for capturing video, a nifty new Chrome trick, a MoviePass documentary worth watching, a smartwatch for kids, and more. It’s a short week, so our week is relatively easy, but there’s still a lot of good stuff to talk about. let’s go.
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- evil. The team at Lux didn’t really miss out. they did halide For photos, playful Orion iPad monitor tool, and now Kino, a video app that is somehow both incredibly simple and incredibly powerful. I love a good black filter. (I have a a lot of Suggestions for this week – thanks to everyone who sent in these suggestions!
- Fitbit Ace LTE. This smartwatch is great for kids, but… I want one. It has some fun games designed to get you moving, a range of very attractive colors and accessories, and a surprising amount of power within. Don’t like the $230 price, but like everything else.
- jim henson creative. I don’t know if it’s just because I have a crush on a kid sesame street and The Muppets , but even the trailer for this Disney+ doc made me cry. This is a story about creativity and wonder, filled with fun behind-the-scenes stories about the Muppets.
- Carrot 6.0. Some very interesting updates for the most interesting weather app! I particularly like the new layout and data visualization content, and the game mechanics of the robot gardener feature are charming, but not really my cup of tea. Still: There’s more silly stuff in weather apps than you’d love to see.
- Jon Berrien is george janko show. The episode appears on my For You page on TikTok and Bellion explains how the Ticketmaster/Live Nation monopoly works and the overall business of being an artist in 2024.
- Minimize custom tabs for Chrome. It’s a terrible name for a very clever product: basically, a picture-in-picture browser tab that makes the whole idea of an in-app browser more seamless. Currently there is only Chrome for Android, but Google says it hopes every browser will support this feature, and I hope so too.
- travel tunes. It turns out that large language models are very, very good at making playlists. This app only works on iOS and only on Apple Music, shhh, but I love the whole mixtape aesthetic, you just tell it where you’re going and what your mood is and it fills the entire trip with music.
- Nomad Tracking Card. I had an AirTag in my wallet for a while, but it was just an small Too big. I’d rather just slide it into the card slot since Nomad says it’s only as thick as two credit cards. The battery will apparently last five months and can be recharged via any MagSafe charger.
- movie pass, movie crash. I mentioned this last week, but thought I’d start over again now that it’s out. Really good! I covered MoviePass a lot, but I still learned a lot about how the company took off, and how it failed so quickly and spectacularly. (Also, more on this on Tuesday vejicastleso please pay attention.
Screen sharing
You know those people that you listen to on podcasts all the time and even though you don’t know them and you’ve never met them, you’re like best friends? for me, Shawn Rameswaram Wasn’t one of them until recently. He is one of the co-hosts of the show Today, explaina great daily news show from our friends Walkers — They’ve had me guest star a few times over the past few months! (We did a really fun episode about storm chasers and extreme weather this week, if you want to listen.)
Regardless, Sean is one of those people who seems to be interested in everything, always, all the time, so I wonder what his home screen will reveal about what he really cares about most. Here’s some info on the apps he uses and why:
Telephone: I’ve owned an iPhone SE (first generation) for six or seven years. Retirement reminds me of an episode Married…with children – Al Bundy drove his car so long that the manufacturer planned to replace it with a new one to reach 1,000,000 miles. I wondered if I would qualify for a similar deal since I insisted on serving in the Senate, but never asked. I ended up replacing it with an iPhone 13 Mini. I don’t like big phones. It looks like you have an iPad in your pocket.
wallpaper: Leo hails a taxi in New York with an unmanned whistle. He’s done it a few times in movies – most recently in Killers of the Flower Moon. I’ve lost count of how many years I’ve wanted to learn how to tie a belt. I think living in New York for five years was motivation. There were times I tried to sit down and master it and almost passed out from shortness of breath. Lately, I’ve discovered that this is a months-long learning process. I use Leo as my backdrop to remind myself to figure this out before I die.
app: WNYC, Calendar, New York Times, KCRW, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, YouTube, Calculator, Seek, Yelp, Chrome, Camera, Weather, Apple Music, Slack, Settings, Mail, Instagram, Photos, Clock, App Store, Podcasts, Google Maps, Spotify, Radio Garden, Phone, FaceTime, Messages, WhatsApp.
I promise I won’t organize my books by color, but I can’t help it with my app. At the four corners, we have my main squeeze: audio (née radio). radio garden is the most incredible (and admittedly underused) one on the page. It allows you to travel around the world and listen to thousands of live radio streams. This is the cheapest vacation you can ever take. Shout out to Breakmaster Cylinder for introductions.
The rest of this screen is pretty simple and self-explanatory, but I want to single out Look for and all similar apps that help us identify bugs, birds, plants, and trees. This is the future we are committed to.
Has anyone else used this weather app? Always wrong.
I also asked Sean to share some things that interest him right now. This is what he sent back:
- I’ve been lucky enough to travel a lot last year, and I’ve been looking online for restaurant recommendations. eater“38 Must-Go Restaurants” Always the best curator. since eater It was my colleague, and I had the opportunity to ask their publisher, Amanda Kludt, why they always target 38. Fair!
- I swear I like stuff not made by Vox Media, but have you ever played it? Cinema? i hit vulture I open Home Page every morning because I’m an aging Millennial who still loves Home Page. when i first saw Cinema, I think it’s cute, but it doesn’t form a habit. Then one day a dear old friend texted my brother and I on his grid and we were instantly hooked because – well – it’s a social game. It’s the start of a daily conversation, and it’s a really fun ritual when you do it with other people. My personal Cinema After that, the universe expanded with some colleagues. we all feel very vulture Blue ball.
- Am I the first to insert a striptease on screen sharing? no reason Magic Mike live show This is not what you expect. Sure, there’s a butt, but it’s mostly an ecstatic and liberating celebration of sex, consent, and some impressive six-pack abs. Remember when you watched the original movie and, all of a sudden, you were struck by how amazing Channing Tatuto was as a dancer? That’s it, steroids. Maybe literally. Next time you’re in Vegas, dare to jump over the sphere and head to the Sahara Desert MMML instead. Or at least try to do both.
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What’s this installer Community has entered this week. I also want to know what you are doing now! e-mail installer@theverge.com Or drop me a line on Signal — @davidpierce.11— with your suggestions for anything and everything, and we’ll feature some of our favorites here every week. For more suggestions than I can list here, check out Reply to this post on Threads.
“My favorite mobile game is Trigger Solitaire and vintage bowl (Both are available through Apple Arcade). vintage bowl is a fun riff Texmore Bowland Trigger Solitaire is a fun twist on the card game I often play when I’m killing time and don’t want to be obsessed with social media. — Jared
「TV launcher is a great utility that provides a complete TV guide that links deep to most streaming apps and automatically opens the exact channel. It basically turned my Apple TV into a full cable TV set-top box replacement. — Bilal
“It’s a bit controversial, but Yann LeCun and Musk trash talk on Twitter. Also, I ended up re-reading a bunch of Yann’s old papers, because why not. — Kruti
“I’ve been searching for years for the best open-back earbuds that allow me to hang out outside without endangering myself by blocking out traffic or other noise, or blocking out my family’s sounds when at home, and I’m delighted discover their existence Sometimes the prices are even lower than the $50 price tag. — Christopher
“This week’s The Jeff Gerstman Show (Hosted by this week’s surprise host Jeff Gerstmann, joined by guest Arthur Gies) is full of insights into the upcoming summer gaming events.
Jeff’s work is always recommended this time of year. — Paul
“The greatest game of all time: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door”. – maximum
“Seen autumn guyHonestly, for anyone who has ever worked in/around/or on a film, it was a real treat just from the variety of stunts on display. It was released early due to fairly mediocre box office performance. — Amanda
“I’m addicted to threesome. I don’t know if anyone still plays this game, but I absolutely love it. I’ve been playing these ‘free versions’ for so many years that I lose count now. — Krutty
“Daisy plate. Similar to WizTree and SequoiaView, but for Mac and has a very nice UI. — Sinan
“I’ve been playing for three years Destiny 2 Activities after inclusion in PS Plus. The game is sorely lacking an introductory experience for returning players, but even just sticking to the single-player story missions, there’s a ton of content from the (IMO) best FPS studio ever. — Jonathan
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