In this week’s Installer: a new show to binge this weekend, a Notion update, a new-old Mario game, and more.
Welcome to Installer No. 121, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff. For newcomers, welcome and good luck in the Elite Eight. Read old editions at the Installer homepage.
This week, I’ve delved into Will Wright, sync music, the smartphone theory of everything, revisited ‘The Soul of a New Machine’ after Tracy Kidder’s passing, added SNL UK to my YouTube rotation, watched Hilary Duff on Hot Ones, moved music to Parachord, tried the NewsBlur Android beta, listened to a new podcast from the Serial team, played Ball x Pit, and fought off a cold.
Also, here’s a travel app, a bizarre, delightful show to watch, a new reason to replay an old Mario game, and more. Dive in.
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– **Flighty**: Usually for frequent travelers, but now useful for navigating security lines, delays, and changes with its new Airport Intelligence feature.
– **Bait**: A super-meta show about an actor auditioning to be James Bond. Amazingly, it works. Riz Ahmed is a highlight.
– **Super Mario Bros. Wonder**: New Switch 2 levels and updates breathe fresh life into an old classic.
– **The HTML Review issue 05**: A stellar online magazine with beautiful writing and designs.
– **Dropzone 5.0 for Mac**: An intuitive app for saving and sharing files, now with a sleek new look.
– **”The Ten Pounds Episode”**: ‘Friends Keep Secrets’ merges celeb podcasts with reality TV in an irresistible way.
– **Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice**: A fun movie that suffers from a forgettable name.
– **Notion 3.4**: Useful new updates like tabs and a cleaner sidebar make it enticing again.
Screen share: Casey Liss’s homescreen offers a blend of work and personal apps, showcasing his combined roles of podcaster and developer. His choice apps include AnyList, Apple Notes, Overcast, and more. Casey’s a Sonos fan, journals daily in Day One, and likes keeping things simple with apps like Due and Photos.
Currently loving: ‘Scrubs’ reboot, Raye’s album ‘My 21st Century Blues,’ and the Auto Catalog Archive.
Crowdsourced: Here’s what the Installer community is loving:
– Pokémon ROM hacks on AYN Thor (Neal)
– Giving Noteful on iPad a try (Nick)
– Bambu Printer A2 for 3D prints (Zach)
– Watching ‘The Capture’ and using MacBook Neo (Nathan)
– Beechmore Books for quality paper (Bruce)
– Wearing a Bulova Computron watch (Aidan)
– Synology NAS setup for media (Jamison)
– ‘The Amazing Digital Circus’ (Hanna)
– Xteink X4 E Ink reader (Alric)
– Brad Dowdy’s The Pen Addict (Dan)
Signing off: Discovered Obsolete Sounds, a collection of sounds like a winding pocket watch. These sounds are ripe for remix projects. See you next week!