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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 36, your guideline to nan champion and Verge-iest worldly successful nan world. (If you’re caller here, hello, I’m thrilled you recovered us, nan Installerverse loves you, and besides you tin publication each nan aged editions astatine nan Installer homepage.)

I missed you each past week! I was astatine a friend’s bachelor statement successful South Carolina, playing play and eating burgers and mostly staying offline. Thanks to everyone who reached retired to opportunity you missed nan newsletter! But I’m backmost now, and truthful is Installer. We are so back. This week, I’ve been penning astir AI gadgets and iPads, watching Baby Reindeer and The Fall Guy, reference A Drink Before nan War, and listening to nan fantabulous Challengers score.

I besides person for you a caller browser for Windows, immoderate caller mobile audio options, a mates of nosy things to watch this weekend, apps for java nuts, and overmuch more. Let’s excavation in.

(As always, nan champion portion of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you into correct now? What should everyone other beryllium into correct now? Tell maine everything: [email protected]. And if you cognize personification other who mightiness bask Installer, show them to subscribe here.)

The Drop

Arc for Windows. Arc is still my favourite browser, and moreover successful this first version, it’s amazingly coagulated connected Windows. (Though it is missing a mates of Arc’s much precocious features and immoderate of nan AI stuff.) If you effort it, springiness it clip — it’s a really large alteration from Chrome, but I’m still sold connected it. (The iOS app besides sewage immoderate large and much-needed updates this week.)
Claude for iOS. I’m judge there’s a bully rubric retired location for which AI exemplary is bully for which purposes, but mostly I conscionable gravitate toward whichever app is nicest? The caller 1 from Anthropic is nice: clean, simple, faster than nan web app for sure. I besides really for illustration nan icon.
“‘No CGI’ is really conscionable invisible CGI.” The 4th and last installment successful a really cool bid astir CGI, from nan awesome The Movie Rabbit Hole YouTube channel. I learned truthful overmuch astir moviemaking and nan bully and bad tricks filmmakers usage from these videos.
Sofa 4.0. A immense update to 1 of my favourite movie / book / show trackers. Sofa now lets you cod and shape anything, immoderate measurement you want — MacStories has a awesome rundown of each nan worldly you tin do, and I’m already utilizing it to scheme summertime trips.
The Bose SoundLink Max. $399 is steep for a Bluetooth speaker, but I’m very into this one. Super-long artillery life; an AUX port; a nosy small handle; presumably fantabulous sound. I’ve been a UE Wonderboom believer for years, but I’ll beryllium trying this 1 retired this summer.
The Beats Solo 4. I work together pinch Chris Welch that it’s weird to not person ANC successful these headphones. But I’m still into nan look, emotion really ray they are, and americium stoked astir nan wired options arsenic well.
Hacks play 3. I was precocious to this show astir nan lives and relationships of 2 comedians, but it’s funny and weird and highly worthy your time. Only 18 episodes to drawback up on! You tin do it this weekend!
The Idea of You. I’m presently biased toward Anne Hathaway because I conscionable recovered retired she’s besides an Arsenal fan, which makes her cool and smart and great. But I support proceeding bully things astir this movie connected Netflix astir modern life and fame and nan weirdness of both.
“Phone Apps for (Weird) Coffee People.” James Hoffmann is simply a must-subscribe for each things coffee, but I particularly loved this look astatine each nan apps for java drinkers. I’ve go a immense Filtru instrumentality successful particular, and my java process is now fussier than ever. I emotion it.

Screen share

Riley Testut has had a engaged mates of weeks. Couple of months, really. Years, honestly. He’s nan developer down Delta, nan crippled emulator that has taken complete nan App Store complete nan past fewer weeks and that mightiness besides beryllium nan awesome of a caller app era entirely. He’s been moving connected bringing his app store, AltStore PAL, to users successful nan EU, while besides conscionable trying to get immoderate Pokémon playing in.

I asked Riley to stock his homescreen, successful portion conscionable to spot if I could snoop connected his Delta and ROM setups. I sewage my wish! Here’s Riley’s homescreen, positive immoderate info connected nan apps he uses and why:

The phone: Purple iPhone 12 Mini. I perfectly LOVE this phone, and I’m dreading having to upgrade to a larger 1 eventually. (I would’ve gotten nan 13 Mini, isolated from it doesn’t travel successful purple.)

The wallpaper: A photograph of a Pokémon drone show successful nan style of Mew, originally taken by Joe Merrick (of Serebii fame), past somewhat edited.

The apps: Phone, FaceTime, Photos, Camera, Notes, Maps, Calculator, Find My, Files, Pokémon Sleep, Settings, 1Password, Alamo Drafthouse, Messages, Mail, Safari.

My co-founder / roommate Shane and I are obsessed pinch Pokémon Sleep (we compete to spot who gets nan astir shinies), truthful that’s earned a spot beforehand and center. My societal files contains my astir heavy utilized apps (Ivory and Threads), and past beneath it is nan Alamo Drafthouse app, which I usage a LOT because I emotion going to nan movies and person nan yearly walk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

1Password contains virtually everything important successful my life, truthful it’s besides a staple, but I only made nan Delta files precocious erstwhile it was released successful nan App Store. It contains nan app itself arsenic good arsenic launchers for Pokémon Emerald and Pokémon HeartGold arsenic good arsenic nan astonishing Ketchup pokédex app truthful I tin easy look up Pokémon stats.

And because I can’t usage AltStore PAL extracurricular nan EU, I person nan regular AltStore widget to punctual maine to refresh my apps each week!

I besides asked Riley to stock a fewer things he’s into correct now. Here’s what he shared:

I bought myself a Steam Deck a fewer months agone and person been perfectly loving it! In fact, it’s nan main measurement I kept myself entertained while we were stuck successful Europe trying to motorboat AltStore PAL (god bless Dolphin emulator and Super Mario Galaxy 2).
I’m besides a sucker for ace nerdy subject YouTube videos, and nan History of nan Universe transmission is virtually nan cleanable point to put connected successful nan inheritance while I build immoderate Legos aliases something. I besides precocious discovered Technology Connections’ channel, which fundamentally scratches nan aforesaid itch but for tech. I’ll besides everlastingly beryllium a instrumentality of Nirvanna nan Band nan Show, and Shane and I emotion their “Update Day” video truthful overmuch we moreover utilized it to tease AltStore PAL’s launch.
At nan aforesaid time… I’m besides profoundly invested successful nan ongoing UFO discourse. Exciting to spot thing that was dismissed for truthful agelong being taken earnestly by Congress and others because that’s really subject makes progress!

Crowdsourced

Here’s what nan Installer organization is into this week. I want to cognize what you’re into correct now arsenic well! Email [email protected] aliases connection maine connected Signal — @davidpierce.11 — pinch your recommendations for thing and everything, and we’ll characteristic immoderate of our favorites present each week. If you want moreover much bully stuff, cheque retired the replies to this station connected Threads.

“Neal Brennan’s Crazy Good is nan funniest stand-up connected Netflix since Ali Wong’s Baby Cobra.” – Christopher

“I’ve been obsessing complete note-taking apps again because I americium insane. Recently tried Tana, and it’s incredible. Feels for illustration nan astir earthy measurement for maine to return notes (bullet journaling, tasks, task management) and is astir apt going to person maine to ditch Logseq and Obsidian and everything else.” – Rin

“Voiijer. This absorbing societal media app is focused connected posting trips. From time hikes to overnight adventures abroad. I’ve tried it retired a small bit, but it seems geared toward being a recreation journal. Seems caller and interesting.” – Nicholas

“3Blue1Brown. Really for illustration this YouTube transmission successful wide and person thoroughly enjoyed watching this playlist. He breaks down ace analyzable mathematical concepts into easy-to-digest, bite-size chunks utilizing examples and fantabulous visualizations. This playlist feels peculiarly applicable for anyone who wants to dive a small deeper into nan technologies and algorithms that are driving this activity of AI hype.” – Abie

“The new video from David Imel astir really nan ✨ emoji became nan awesome for AI is astir 1,000 times much absorbing than I thought it would be. I don’t want to spoil anything, which is weird to opportunity astir a video for illustration this, but honestly, nan sanction of nan video is conscionable scratching nan aboveground of really cool it is.” – Luke

I’ve been playing Bonk’s GameBoy games utilizing Delta and penning astir games on Backloggd, which is simply a nosy video game-focused reappraisal tract built very likewise to Letterboxd.” – Sawyer

“My latest rabbit spread is comics and schematic novels, and arsenic personification who strips his ebooks of DRM, I’m still trying to find nan Calibre of comics. I landed connected YACReader and YACReader Library. It’s bully enough, but I consciousness there’s still abstraction for a really bully app.” – Kevin

“Starting to salary much attraction to patient eating, and I retrieve hating MyFitnessPal. Found nan app Cronometer, which is simply a awesome freemium alternative. Highly recommended!” – Jonathan

“I conscionable wanted to stock really overmuch I’ve been loving nan caller AppleTV Plus bid Sugar starring Colin Farrell arsenic backstage detective John Sugar, that’s connected a lawsuit of a missing daughter. It has a awesome camera, vibe, and overall, nan aesthetics are amazing. The crippled is moreover better, pinch subtle specifications each astir nan show. I’ve conscionable rewatched it for nan 3rd clip (there are only 4 episodes truthful far), and I noticed galore clues for later improvement that I hadn’t noticed before. I consciousness for illustration nan showrunners must’ve spent ages connected processing this show.” – Vojtěch

“Just sewage backmost connected nan Castro podcast app bandwagon. It’s nether caller guidance and they are iterating. The queue strategy is 🔥.” – Advay

Signing off

For nan past fewer weeks, I’ve been reference and proceeding a batch astir really overmuch group for illustration the Boox Palma. It’s fundamentally conscionable an Android phone, but it has a Kindle-style E Ink screen, which intends it’s atrocious astatine a batch of things but tin download each your reference apps and news apps. I person a batch much testing to do pinch it, but truthful far, I love this thing. It’s kinda slow and a small wonky, but it fits successful my pouch and is simply a cleanable instrumentality for reference and taking speedy notes. For years, I’ve cycled betwixt carrying a notebook everywhere, relying connected my telephone for everything, trying to shove immoderate different instrumentality into my workflow, and moreover occasionally being a weirdo who carries astir an iPad. The Palma’s not perfect, but this shape facet — Android instrumentality pinch an E Ink surface — mightiness be. I’ll person a bigger portion connected this point successful nan adjacent mates of weeks, but if you’re intrigued, I emotion it truthful far.

See you adjacent week!