What caught my attention in week nineteen, 2023
In continuation to week eighteen, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in week nineteen, 2023:
- 🖱️ That's very strange, I've been using computers with a mouse for about 35 years and, as a left-hander, I've always used the left mouse button with my middle finger instead of the right-handed way with their index finger. During the Amiga era, there was no way to change this (at least I don't think so) and later on, I never bothered to switch. Now, after a few weeks of suffering from tennis elbow, I reluctantly replaced my Magic Mouse with a Logitech Lift Left. The mouse buttons were swapped by default and it felt right after just a few hours. I still occasionally confuse my fingers when I am tired, but otherwise, it works almost automatically. I never thought that my 35-year-old habit could be changed so quickly.
- 🚴♂️ I cycled about 115 km, 25 of them on the trainer, the rest outside.
- 🤖 Sindre Sorhus is "collecting resources and tools related to OpenAI's Whisper model": Awesome Whisper
- 🐘 The public broadcasting television channel in Germany, ARD, is now represented on Mastodon with its own instance and has reported on it in its news.
- 🤖 Drafts.app has now implemented ChatGPT features.
- 📱 Quinn Nelson asked on Mastodon for "favorite, underrated, unknown iOS apps most have never heard of" and a huge thread with lots of (new) stuff emerged. I did not have time to look into those suggestion but bookmarked
- Find: A Modern Photo Manager
- Blackbox - Think outside the box.
- Hindsight - Time Tracker - How long has it been since...?
- Ångström, the unit converter
- Retrospecs - Pixelate your pics!
- Konsensus: Movies & TV Shows - Track what you watch. Another TV and movie tracker I have never heard of before; looks interesting and supports trakt.tv with IAP1
- RunPee - Pause btn for movie theaters: "The database is updated weekly with the latest movies so you will know the best times to run and pee, without missing the best scenes." 🤣
- Router Go: "Router Go is the best way to view .GPX, .TCX, .KML, .LOC, Pioneer (.DB), and Garmin .FIT routes on your iOS device"
- GPX Workout - Export your workouts to GPX.
- what3words: "With the what3words app, it’s easy to find, share and save precise locations." I stumbled across this service a long time ago and find it very interesting. But actually I don't share locations by coordinates that often and so I've already forgotten that what3words exists. Will try to remember next time.
- Bandbreite - All about your favorite [Apple Watch] bands.
- Zones: Time Zone Conversion
- Skaffer - Track subscriptions. Right now I am using Bobby for that.
- Denim - Playlist Cover Maker - Curated Art for Playlist Cover.
- Scorecard: Point Tracker - Keep score in any game.
- 📱 There were a few apps in the thread that I already enjoy using
- Albums - the Apple Music player that puts you in control of your music.
- iSH Shell - Linux in your pocket.
- LookUp: English dictionary - Learn a new word every day.
- Picsew - Screenshot Stitching
- Up Ahead: Countdown Widgets - Vacation & birthday reminders. IMHO a little bit overpriced but very, very nice.
- MusicBox: Save Music for Later - Bookmark Songs to Listen Later.
- Opener ‒ open links in apps
- Metapho - Check and Edit EXIF Metadata.
- TV Forecast – Show Tracker
- Mela - Recipe Manager
- 👨💻 Additionally, there were a few macOS app I found interestingly
- Open Ports: "Lives in your menu bar. List, browse, copy, terminate or kill open ports. Everything is just one click away!"
- Rectangle Pro - Superior window management on macOS. But I think I'll just stick with Moom and further dance around Lasso.
- MusicSmart - Liner Notes. I am not that into music but every one else that is, thinks this is a great app.
- Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler
- 🟩 If you're into design and colors this free watchOS (!) game might be fun: Nuances - Nuances is a game around shades of colors.
- ⏰ I used to love the first version of Gestimer, now Gestimer 2 Timers & Reminders Made Simple was released. The devoloper came up with an interesting approach to upgrade pricing, though. You can buy the new version together with the old one for an discounted price if you own already version 1 (complete the bundle).
- 🎙 My podcasts this week: Accidental Tech Podcast: 533: The Beach Is the Beach, Accidental Tech Podcast: 534: On the Cheerleader Bus, Besenwagen - der Radsport Podcast: Um 5:30 Uhr klingelt der Wecker!, Hello Playdate Podcast: Episode 31 - BiFusion, Launched: 61: RevenueCat - Jacob Eiting (Live in Chicago), Playdate Podcast: Playdate x Panic Podcast — Untitled Goose Game, Really Specific Stories: Shelly Brisbin
- 🎮 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is out and my son is really enjoying it. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find the time to play it myself. 😢
- 📺 Lord of the Rings by Wes Anderson Trailer was fun to watch. (If you can still stand this AI generated stuff.)
- 📺 Watched Ted Lasso with my family.
- 🍿 Love, Simon was also a great family watch.
- I still don't understand why Casey Liss chose this particular "niche" for his next app. BTW there is yet another new and free tracker, called CouchTimes - TV Show Tracker, that does not sync via trakt.tv but looks great otherwise.↩︎