Apple's new iPad Pro looks like a winning tablet

Hello friends! welcome to Installer No. 37, your guide to the best and Edge-The most important things in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, send me links, and you can also read all the old issues on the Installer Homepage.)

This week I have been writing about iPads and LinkedIn Gamesreading about car shows and typewriters and treasure hunterslooking They're all in Los Angeles and Sugar, looking for reasons to buy The New Yeti French Press although I definitely don't need more coffee equipment, following almost all instagram-accounts.html”>Jerry Saltz's favorite instagram accounts, evidence Capabilities and heptabase for all my note taking needs and Plinky for all my link savings and for playing a lot Blind driving.

I also have for you a completely awesome new iPad, a clever new smart home hub, a twitter documentary to watch this weekend, a sci-fi show to watch, a cheap streaming box, and so much more. Let's do it.

(As always, the best part of Installer They are your ideas and advice. What are you reading/watching/cooking/playing/building right now? What should everyone else be interested in too? Email me at [email protected] or find me on Signal at @davidpierce.11. And if you know someone else who might enjoy installer, and tell them to subscribe here.)

• The new iPad Pro. The new Pro is easily the most impressive piece of hardware I've seen in a long time. It's so thin and light, and that OLED screen… beautiful. It's incredibly expensive and the iPad's big problem remains its software, but that's how you build a tablet, folks.
• animal pit. Our friends at Polygon called this “One of the most inventive games of the last decade”, which is obviously high praise! By all indications, he is unusual, surprising, sometimes frustrating, highly intelligent, and incredibly attractive. Even the trailer It's like nothing I've ever seen before. (I got a batch of recommendations for this one this week – thanks to everyone who submitted it!)
• ai-features-on-mac%2F”>Final cutting chamber. This only got a brief mention at the Apple event this week, but it's a big deal! It is a professional-grade in-house camera app for iPhones and iPads that gives you plenty of editing and manual control features. It's exactly what many creatives have been asking for. No word yet on exactly when it will be available, but I'm excited.
• The Aqara M3 Center. The only way to manage your smart home is to make sure your devices support as many assistants, protocols, and platforms as possible. This seems like one way to do it: It's a Matter-ready device that can handle almost any smart home equipment you throw at it.
• “Battle of the clipboard administrators.” I don't think I've ever linked to a Reddit thread here, but check this one out – it's a long discussion about why a clipboard manager is a useful tool, plus a ton of good options to choose from. (I agree with all the people who love Raycast, but there are many options and ideas here.)
• proton passage. My current number one tech tip is that everyone needs a password manager. I have been for a long time 1password fan, but Proton's app is starting to look tempting: This week, it got a new security threat monitoring tool, in addition to all the smart email hiding and sharing features it already has.
• The Onn 4K Pro. Basically all streaming boxes are riddled with ads, slow, and bad. This Google TV box from Walmart is at least also affordable, comes with voice control and support for all the specs you want, and doubles as a smart speaker. I also love the customizable buttons.
• Dark matter. I mainly loved all the Blake Crouch sci-fi books I've read, so I have high hopes for this Apple TV Plus series about life in a parallel universe. Apple TV Plus, by the way? Really good at the whole sci-fi thing.
• He word archive. More than 1,000 days of wordall ready to be played and replayed (because, let's be honest, who remembers? word since three weeks ago?). I don't have access to the file yet, but you better believe I'll be playing it in its entirety as soon as it comes out.
• twitter?language=es-AR”>Black twitter: the story of a people. based on twitter-oral-history-part-i-coming-together/”>very funny cabling seriesThis is a three-part in-depth Hulu doc ​​on the ways Black twitter took over social media and a tour of the Internet experience in some of the biggest events of the last decade.

kylie robinson, The edge's new senior ai reporter, twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1786434127551676884″>he tweeted a video from his old iPhone The other day was like the perfect time capsule of a device. It had about 90,000 games, including many that I'm 100 percent sure were scams, and the iPod logo on its dock made me feel a lot of things. They were good days.

I messaged Kylie on Slack about eight minutes after she became Edge employee, hoping we could convince her to share her current home screen and what she had been doing during her fun work time before starting with us.

Unfortunately, he says he mastered the chaos of his home screen before starting, out of some professionalism or whatever. And now he swears he can't even find a screenshot of his old home screen! SURE, KYLIE. Anyway, here's Kylie's new working home screen, plus information about what apps she uses and why.

The phone: iPhone 14 Pro Max.

The wallpaper: A black screen because I think it is too noisy otherwise. (My lock screen has about 20 rotating photos, though.)

The applications: Apple Maps, Notes, Spotify, Messages, FaceTime, Safari, Phone.

I need calendar and weather apps right in front of me when I unlock my phone because I'm forgetful. I use Spotify for everything music and podcasts.

Work is life, so I also have all those apps front and center (Signal, Google Drive, Okta).

Right before we started, I rearranged my phone screen because 1) I had time and 2) I knew I'd have to show it to David. All apps are sorted into folders now, but before, they were completely free because I use the search bar to find apps; I rarely move around. So imagine about 25 random apps filling every page: Pegasus for some international flight I booked, a random stuffed peppers recipe, whatever.

I also asked Kylie to share some things she's loving right now. This is what she shared:

• stardew valley It took over my life during my work break.
• In fact I started 3 Body problem because of an old man Installer. Plus I loved it Fall and I need more episodes.
• My serious guilty pleasure is Love Island United Kingdomand I've been watching the latest season during my vacation.

This is what Installer the community is in this week. I want to know what you're up to now too! Email [email protected] or hit me up on Signal (I'm @davidpierce.11) with your recommendations for anything, and we'll feature some of our favorites here each week. And if you want even more recommendations, check out the answers to this post in Threads.

“I have always found the recommendation algorithm of Spotify and music channels terrible; It takes too much hassle and adaptation when all I want is to press play and get a good diversity of music that I like. So I finally gave up and tried it. Pandora again. Its station/recommendation algorithm is so tremendously better than Spotify's (at least to me), that it's shocking how it seems to fade into cultural anonymity. I can't speak for others, but if anyone is equally frustrated with Spotify playlists, I highly recommend the Pandora option.” – Willpower

“Everything that comes out of Netflix is ​​a joke fest It has been 10/10.” – Miguel

“layer against for Skyrim (and consequences 4). Not so much a single mod, but a mod plus a collection of apps that give (basically) each NPC their own lives and stories. It's like you're suddenly allowed to participate in the fun and games with Woody and Buzz, instead of them having to say the words when you pull the string.” -Jonathan

“He cutout The podcast app (whose main selling point is ai transcription of podcasts and the ability to easily capture, manage, and export text snippets from podcasts) has a new feature that displays a name, bio, and picture of guests to the podcast, and allows you to find more podcasts with the same guest or even follow specific guests. Very cool!” -Andy

“I recently bought a new Kindle and am trying to figure out how to get news about it. My current plan is to use Omnivore like my bookmarks app, which will sync with this awesome community tool that turns those bookmarks into a Kindle-friendly website.” – David

“Turtles all the way! Great description of OCD.” –Saad

“With all the talk about Delta on iOS, I recently purchased and am currently in love with my Miyo MiniPlus. It's customizable and perfectly sized, and in my later years with no love for fortnite, PUBG, or any of the plethora of games connected online, it's wonderful to go back and play some of these 'legally obtained' games I played in my childhood.” – Benjamin

“Rusty's retirement is a great, mostly idle, farm simulator that sits on the bottom or side of your monitor for both Mac and Windows. Rusty just goes and completes small tasks on his behalf while you work or do other things. It's great. Watch him go! – brendon

“Last week, Nicholas talked about YACReader and called for another great comic e-reader app for DRM-free files. After much searching, I decided to Panels for iPad. Excellent native Apple UI, well thought out features and decent performance. The free version can handle a local library, but to unlock its full potential, the Pro version (sub or lifetime) supports iCloud, so you can save all your comics to iCloud Drive, manage the files through a Mac, and Download only what you want. “You are currently reading: Ideal for lower-end iPads with less storage.” – Diogo

I have spent a long time over the years trying to discover and explain to people the basics of a camera. There are a billion metaphors for ISO, shutter speed and aperture, and they all fall short. That's probably why a lot of the photographers I know have been passing along this fun stuff. depth of field simulator in recent days, which allows you to play with aperture, focal length, sensor size and more to understand how different settings change the way you take photos. It's a really smart and easy way to see how everything works and understand what's possible when you really start controlling your camera. I suspect I will be sharing this link a lot and am learning a lot from it as well.