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.
(more…)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…)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.
(more…)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.
(more…)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.
(more…)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.
Read moreFantastical 2, Cardhop, and Chatology are now on sale. Fantastical takes natural language input and creates a calendar appointment out of it. Go get them!
(more…)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.
(more…)For those who may not know, I enjoy myself a bit of wet-on-wet technique oil painting. You know, the style popularized by the man himself, Bob Ross. I long enjoyed his shows as a relaxing time, and a little while ago was able to jump into actually doing it when my wife picked up some starter supplies for me. I enjoy it, but making time for the painting (and then the cleanup) can often stop me from heading to the workbench. With the new Adobe Fresco app, that could certainly be less of a hindrance.
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