I have always had this problem. I know what I need to do. I don’t always know how to start. It’s as if there’s a bridge out, even though I can see the destination on the other shore. And I used to try strategies like Work Breakdown Structure, Getting Things Done, or Pomodoro to try and figure out how to manage time. But maybe this app, Focused Work will be the one that breaks my mental block.
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Deliveries 9 for iOS and Mac tells you where it’s at
Deliveries is the best of what an app should be: It does one thing (monitor status of deliveries), does it well (supporting an impossibly long list of couriers and tracking from websites like Apple and Amazon), and puts that information right up front where you want it – on your iPhone or Mac.
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Fortnite planned to get banned – Epic wanted this
#Freefortnite is bullshit. That’s the hashtag Epic is using to try and claim they’re the victims of Apple’s 30% cut for using the App Store. They’re also saying they’re victims of Google’s 30% rules.
But Epic has had apps in the App Store for 10 years. They knew and signed onto the rules, and were okay with them for ages.
Why now? Two reasons:
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Aviary is your Twitter app for iOS 14
Aviary is a brand-new twitter app for iOS14. A twitter app in 2020? Why? Didn’t twitter kill off the apps when they limited their API access? Doesn’t twitter want you to use their app?
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New tech lets you pull reality onto your computer
A wild bit of tech now lets you pull real objects out of reality using AR and instantly paste them into Adobe files.
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The Human Minute is the most pleasant thing you’ll do all day
The hardest thing for many under quarantine is the lack of human contact. The Human Minute kind of fixes that.
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LoomAI makes Zoom worse, if that’s possible
Yesterday a friend got onto a Zoom call using some kind of cartoon avatar. The avatar, which gave him some sort of bitmoji-esque, completely featureless hellface, was pretty cute. Luckily, now we know what it is.
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Goodbye, Windows 7
What will you miss most? The Start menu that was actually a menu? The glossy, translucent windows? The escape from the nightmare of Vista?
After 11 years, Microsoft is officially pulling Windows 7 support. The OS, which launched in 2009, was aimed at bringing Windows users back to the platform. Hailed as an OS made for PC users, 7 tried mightily to right Microsoft’s missteps and, to a degree, achieved its goal.
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Rewound App: your iPod misses you
Remember how great iPods were? You’d scroll through your music library with lightning speed thanks to the touch wheel. It’d click comfortably in your hand, helping you navigate with ease. Louis Anslow has an app to bring all that joy back.
(more…)Airplane Mode is a six-hour plane ride simulator
The game, called Airplane Mode by AMC (they of the Walking Dead) have created a flight simulator that isn’t exactly what you’d expect.
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