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This week I read Skibidi toilets and The future of shopping mall brands and Bell Labs Legacywatch dirty pop and catch up cobra kaidownload every podcast episode mentioned in This excellent Reddit postwrite something down napkin, and desperately trying to figure out what I forgot to bring with me on vacation. I’ve been trying out new blueberry muffin recipes all week – thanks to everyone who sent me one!
Speaking of which: as I mentioned last week, installer It’s summer vacation. I’m going to sit outside for a few weeks and stare at trees. (BTW, if you have any interesting books I should read, please send them to me.) I’ll be back here on August 17th with a big review installerbut I hope you have a great few weeks and keep telling me about everything that interests you!
Before I leave, I also give you a new way to use Apple Maps, a fun interview with Mark Zuckerberg, the best ways to watch the Olympics, some of the best and silliest websites on the internet, and more wait. let’s do it.
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- Peacock Olympics multiple perspectives. Peacock has done the most for the Olympics this year. Personalized highlights! Al Michaels! Golden area! But I’m going to be locked into multiview for the next two weeks. Four events at a time, which one can I choose to get audio from? This is the future of television.
- ASUS ROG Ally X. A fast, comfortable and quiet Windows gaming handheld? This is the dream. Windows is still terrible on small screens, though, and $800 is a lot for this thing. But still! We are making progress!
- Apple Web Map. Apple’s new test mapping tool is a stark, simple, and lovely contrast to the clutter of Google Maps. It will be interesting to see how much Apple attempts to do this – Maps is great for navigation but rough for location discovery, but perhaps this is a sign that Apple wants to solve this problem.
- Capacity. I’ve been using this powerful note-taking app for a while now, and I really like the way Capacities organizes things. There is also now a mobile app, which makes entering content into the system even easier. This is definitely a power user tool, but I really like it.
- “Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Age of Artificial Intelligence.” A long and unusually thoughtful interview with Mark Zuckerberg, in which Zuckerberg’s tan is hilarious, but also raises some very interesting questions about artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and how we view the future of the real world and the internet idea. I’m surprised I enjoyed watching this so much.
- Camel 3.1. The opportunity for Zuckerberg’s interview was the release of Meta’s new artificial intelligence model, which is obviously better and faster because every new model now is the best and fastest. But the open-source approach here, combined with Meta’s astounding streaming Meta AI bot, means Llama is one to watch.
- Elgato Stream Deck XLR Base. If you use an external microphone for video calling, streaming, podcasting, etc., this dock/Stream Deck combo is probably the easiest USB setup I’ve ever seen. I bought one Instantly.
- Deadpool and Wolverine. Now it seems tornado Might be this summer’s movie. I was a little nervous about a character that was so hyped and overexposed, but I still had high hopes for two of my favorite Marvel characters.
- “Data analysis reveals how science fiction has changed over the past 70 years.” You really should read and watch them all pudding Do. But this feels special installer-y – An analysis of hundreds of science fiction movies, trying to figure out how we see the future, what obstacles we think we must overcome, and more. Major modern villain? society.
- small prize. The annual contest for the best “personal web” and a long list of highly entertaining, often silly, always delightful websites. Infinite CraftsmanshipI’ve mentioned here before that it’s just one of the greatest nominees this year.
Screen sharing
even if you don’t know Josh Rubinyou most likely know That Vision Professional Photos. That guy in the impossibly cool hoodie that makes the Vision Pro look like a futuristic piece of streetwear instead of a stupid giant headset? Yes, that’s Josh Rubin.
When Josh doesn’t look like a gadget model, he is cool hunting, a long-running compendium of really exciting stuff. I’ve always been a reader, so when Josh released his home screen running the new, more customizable iOS 18 beta, I immediately reached out to him and told him it needed to be shared with the rest of us.
Here’s Josh’s home screen, along with some information about the apps he uses and why:
Telephone: iPhone 15 Pro Max, titanium, no case.
wallpaper: I kept the home screen wallpaper black because I find most wallpapers to be too visually distracting and inconsistent with the app icons.
app: Settings, App Store, Safari, Notion, Todoist, Perplexity, Phone, Messages, Edison Mail.
With the iOS 18 beta, I’m excited to finally have more control over app and gadget layout. For my first two screens, I was balancing practicality with aesthetics, which is honestly a philosophy of life. Phone calls, text messages and emails are all visible on the base. I’m a photographer who uses the native iPhone camera app a lot, although I use many other apps in different situations, so the last docket is the Camera and Photo Editing app folders. On the first screen, there are vertical columns of widgets stacked one on top for quick browsing of information I often need, and the application column on the right is the applications I use most often. The second screen is optimized for right-handed use, with apps and folders within thumb’s reach, and a stack of widgets visible at a glance in the upper left corner; color harmony has also been considered. Some notes on application and widget stacking:
Screen 1: The first widget stack shows Hello Weather, which uses Apple Weather (RIP Dark Sky) data and has excellent widget options. Also in the stack are Ventusky, Weather Strip, and Lumy, because the best way to visualize weather information really depends on the weather. The second stack is Fantastical, which includes the month view shown as well as the day and next views. And the next flight information I get through Flighty (I travel a lot). The last stack is Google Search and Google Maps. Concepts are essential for note-taking and project status tracking. I use Perplexity to research more things than Google these days, and I love that, of all the AI tools, they attribute information to the linked page, which makes fact-checking easy.
Screen two: The widget is my Oura sleep data, and there’s more to it because I like the look of it. Also included in the stack are Apple Fitness activity rings and Apple Health Vitals. Retro is a clean, simple, basic photo sharing app that I only use with friends. It’s reminiscent of the early days of Instagram.
I also asked Josh to share something that interests him right now. Here’s what he shared:
- I’m not a gamer at all, but since I tried black box On Vision Pro, I’ve always loved how it blends art and gaming.
- I just made Hashi (chopsticks) in the studio Serra wood and steel exist single thread Farm Shop, I suddenly got hooked on woodworking.
- Snoopy. Always fascinated by peanut related things are on the rise.
Crowdsourcing
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 exciting recommendations, please check the replies Go to this article on Threads.
“this Lord of the Rings audiobook Andy Serkis narrates. I have tried many times to get into these books (like Hobbit Book and OG Lord of the Rings movie) but cannot be obtained. Andy Serkis now narrates Hobbit, Lord of the Ringsand this Silmarillion, I read the first two books within a week. — Harrison
“A less famous but cute (Scandinavian design, what did you expect) weather app alternative is Year. They have a great iOS and Android app and their data settings have interesting backgrounds… look at that wonderful URL! Also, did I mention Scandinavian design? Check out those beautiful fonts. – James
“I accidentally started googling screen-less Steam Deck and ended up getting stuck on Linux games with basic hardware bugs. Apparently a decent 1080p rig costs about $300 to build. So now I’m looking for an old AMD one Parts to build a small Steam console on the cheap (anyone have an RX 580?) chimera operating system and hectorite Seems to be the most popular operating system, but I have a friend who swears by it Endeavor Operating System”. ——Robert
“I’ve been playing Please provide the paper On my phone, it’s a joy to play while I’m taking a break. The developers have done a great job translating this game on PC. — Colin
“Updates to Magic Camera functions Rabbit R1 It lets you decide the style of the photos it creates. It completely changed my attitude towards the R1: the R1 was an interesting camera that just happened to have some AI functionality built into it, rather than being an AI device with some camera functionality built into it. — Dalton
“olympic calendar. Subscribe to any Olympic sport, any country, or everything on your calendar. The developers promise aggressive updates in line with the Olympics schedule. — Jason
“Watched it for an hour Cooking with Matty Matheson On YouTube every day. I love that YouTube has become the food network for millennials. — Justin
“I’m going to try bullet journaling this week. If I like it, I’ll hopefully have it perfected to my liking before the new year! – Chris
“My house’s solar panels and battery backup are finally up and running this week, so awesome! So excited to finally add an electric car charger and enjoy all that delicious sunshine. — Noah
“I picked it up Amber Ward Playing on my Steam Deck. I blinked and four hours passed. It’s just like balloon meet slay the tower meet Tetris, and very addictive. — Drew
“I’ve been watching for all mankind Season 1, streaming on Apple TV Plus, is a captivating blend of historical fiction and science fiction that reimagines the space race against the backdrop of the Soviet Union defeating the United States on the moon. – Matthew
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Do you keep a packing list? I really want to know. I’m a constant list person and I find everything in life becomes easier when I write things down, but for some reason I never saw the point in a packing list. To be fair, my packing strategy is to cram a bunch of stuff into a suitcase I happen to have and then either only need a quarter of what I packed or somehow forget six really important items . Sometimes it’s both! But when I see a list like this, I think, do I really need to write down “bring underwear?” Do people really pack tape every time they travel?
I don’t travel as much as I used to, so maybe I’m not living as hard as I used to. I’ll tell you this, though: My flight was only two hours long, but I already had about 85 hours of downloaded content to watch. So I will cover at least part of the trip.
