I apologize for the headline. I had to do it. For years, devotees have been talking about how this year will be the year of Linux on the desktop. But for true believers, I think we’ve moved past that in some ways – now it’s all about mobile and wearable computing. There’s this $25 PineTime watch: what are we talking about?
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Sonos Port wants to update your stereo
The Sonos Port looks to be the best-sounding way to make your old receiver or Hi-Fi work with Sonos. Sonos music has been a good offering for years: all the music you can stream. The problem is, how do you get the good music to come out of the good speakers?
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Should you buy a new iPhone 11?
It’s the day after iPhone 11, and the tech impressions are in: iPhone 11 and 11 Pro are being received in a mostly-ho-hum kind of way. But is there more going on here, and should you buy one?
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Roland’s 4XCamera Maker is a powerful multi-angle video editor for iOS
Multi-angle filming is a trick as old as movies or television – you set up multiple cameras, roll film, and edit between them after the fact. If you didn’t have multiple cameras, you had to do multiple takes from the different angles. Roland wants to make this easier, with the 4XCamera Maker app for iOS.
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Business card scanning junkies – get Cards app now
Cards is an app by Julian Schiavo that does one thing very well – it scans business cards. There have been apps that do this for years – I’ve used tons of them. But none do it so well as Cards.
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Amazon Fire TV is on fire at IFA (so many new products)
Amazon is releasing a lot of new Fire TV products at IFA 2019 in Berlin. In the past, FireTV was relegated to only Amazon devices or TVs from TCL, who also make Roku TVs. This all changes now.
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Build your own handheld Linux computer, like its 2001
Way back in the old days, there were handheld tablet computers that could run Linux. No one is using a Compaq iPaq or Sharp Zaurus anymore. What’s a nerd to do?
Dark Noise is the white noise generator you need
White noise generators have their places. They commonly get used as sleep machines, or sometimes in offices to cover conversation or other environmental noise. There have been iOS apps that have generated white noise in the past, but not like this.
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Flexibits App Sale (including the calendar app Mac should have shipped with)
Fantastical 2, Cardhop, and Chatology are now on sale. Fantastical takes natural language input and creates a calendar appointment out of it. Go get them!
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Checklist is the Messages app you have to have
For years, I’ve been making shared notes in Apple’s Notes app for shopping lists. Apple added the ability to make lists with checkboxes, but that was always too much work to do in practice. But forget all that, I’m using Checklist by Neil Deckx.
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