New App Releases
Osx Uninstaller 2024 Releases
Platform: macOS
Keywords: aggregated reading, AI
The US-based Osx Uninstaller is our editor’s choice for the best Mac app uninstaller for years, with the best app removal engine, leftover cleaners, ease of use and most cost-effective pricing models. The latest version Osx Uninstaller 2024 has just been released with improved app removal workflow and a completely new interface. The new version will consolidate its excellence as the best app removal utility that you can download from the official website. It is free for all existing users with valid licenses to upgrade. You can also get the lifetime license on the website as long as it is available.
Hezel: Another layer of security for a precious songbook
Platform: iOS
Keywords: Apple Music, music backup
I believe that there are many Apple users who use Apple Music as their main streaming media tool. But Apple Music has a very strange setup – after a subscription lapses for a long time, the song list will be automatically deleted, and many previously saved songs will have to be re-searched and added to the list. At the same time, because I have so much music in Apple Music, and I’m afraid that one day Apple will lose my playlists, I’ve been looking for a playlist that I can put in the cloud. That’s where Hezel comes in. It simply saves Apple Music playlists locally, so you don’t have to lose them.
In addition to backups, Hezel also scans the songs in our playlists. There are special backup scans for things like whether any songs have been grayed out by Apple Music, whether any artists have been taken off the platform, and so on. We can clearly see all the information about our playlists in the backups. We can keep multiple backups in case we regret deleting songs from our playlists. At the same time, some users have regressed and then regressed again, or want to go back to the playlist where they deleted those songs, but it’s too much trouble to delete them one by one, so they can use the most recent backup to complete the reconstruction.
Index: Fusing your lists and to-do lists
Platform: Android
Keywords: to-do list
Lists and to-do lists seem to be one and the same, sometimes they can be transformed into each other perfectly, but sometimes once they are combined with different attributes they can be so different that you can’t tell the difference. Simply put, all the books and movies you want to watch can be aggregated together into a list, but if you give yourself a specific book or movie you want to watch plus a planned time to complete it, the list item will transform into a to-do list. It’s common for similar lists to exist on their own in our memos, and to-do lists to be filled with more important things, and whenever the two intersect, we’re doing double-duty. Index tries to let us do both in one app.
After opening Index, the two main functions of the app are separated in the main tab, namely tasks and lists.
To start with, Index allows us to freely add different lists and set colors, emoji, etc. for the lists in one step to facilitate the subsequent differentiation. Interestingly, every time we add a list, Index will give us some weird suggestions to bring a touch of fun to the process of using the app.
After adding a list, the app will guide us to add more categories, here we can set different secondary categories for our list, for example, set “Funny Movies”, “Suspense Movies”, “Documentary Movies” for the “Movies” list, etc. After completing this step, we can add the corresponding items.
After we finish adding items, we can add detailed descriptions to the items, here we also take movies as an example, we can add our opinions about the movies, you can even use Markdown format to add descriptions.
Index’s To-Do feature is no different from most similar apps, with all the usual features such as setting priorities, adding subtasks, deadlines and reminders. The difference is that in Index, we can link tasks and to-dos. Take daily reading punch card as an example, we can set up a list of books we want to read, and then set up a daily punch card task for a specific book to make sure that we record our reading gains while reading, and ensure that we keep reading and punching.
Whether it’s adding a task to a list or linking a list item to a task, Index’s internal linking allows us to separate the list from the to-do list while keeping it connected, which is a good way to handle it for people with specific needs.
Bulletin: AI-driven for a more efficient way for reading
Platform: iOS/iPadOS/macOS/tvOS/watchOS/visionOS
Keywords: aggregated reading, AI
The wind of AI is now blowing to RSS. To be honest, I’ve always scoffed at instances of tools like readers coupled with AI apps, because most AI apps on the market are a gimmick, just to attract investors or tasters. However, after briefly using Bulletin for a while, I realized that this RSS reader, which is built from the ground up for AI applications, surprisingly makes AI work satisfactorily in RSS reading scenarios. Why? Because RSS belongs to the process of collection, rough reading and screening in the reading process, need to read a considerable number of articles in a short period of time, Bulletin is very clever to make this process efficient through AI applications.
The first step is, in the RSS article list interface, click the “Smart Summary” button in the upper right corner, Bulletin can display all the articles in the current list as a one-sentence summary, and we can directly select the articles we are interested in through the summary list here.
In the second step, in the details page of the article you are interested in, or click on the “Smart Summary” button in the upper right corner, Bulletin can display the current article as a list form of overview, so that we can quickly grasp the main content of this article, equivalent to the “rough reading” once, as a way to decide whether or not to add this article to the “Read Later”.
It is worth mentioning that Bulletin has also designed two interesting little features through AI technology. The first one is ‘When I was a five-year-old child’. In other words, when we ask the AI to perform “intelligent summarization” for an article, we can ask the AI to switch to a more plain and easy-to-understand language, and describe the originally obscure and difficult-to-understand article through simple phrases.
The second is “change the title”. For any article in an RSS list, we can ask the AI to give it a new title, but not a “headline party” title.
In addition to the AI application mentioned above, Bulletin can also manage RSS feeds, import OPML files, read articles aloud, etc., just like a normal RSS reader, and is adapted to widgets, shortcut commands, push notifications, and other system features on the iOS platform, Bulletin is currently available for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and other platforms, and can be downloaded for free from the App Store, with a paid subscription of $28 per month or $148 per year, or a lifetime buyout for $328.
App Updates
Spotify: Better to be alone than to be with others
Platform: iOS/iPadOS/Android/macOS/Windows
Keywords: music
@chemistrymood2: Spotify launched a new feature called “Jam” on its mobile platform last year, which allows you to create an exclusive “concert hall” and invite your friends to join you to listen to your own personalized song list. This feature is finally available on desktop, so let’s introduce you to it.
Creating a Jam on the desktop is actually very simple, for example, you can select the music you want to listen to with your friends, click on the hamburger menu on the right side of the music, and then select “Create Jam” in the menu, then a Jam will be created based on the current song, and you can get the invitation to the Jam in the queue on the right side, and then a QR code and a link will be generated. This will generate a QR code and a link that you can send to your friends to scan or click on to join the Jam.
Personally, I think the Jam format is very much like having your own music party online, where people who share your tastes can listen to your favorite music together, or in another way, it’s very much like a private live broadcast of your own music list, only with a stronger sense of participation.
In addition to the Jam feature coming to desktop, Spotify has also recently launched a new mini-player for desktop players – a feature that isn’t unique to Spotify, as many local music players have had mini-players for a long time. The mini-player is a bit of a late addition, but it’s better than nothing, as it’s a small hovering control on the desktop that can control volume, pause, and the next song.
By default, the mini-player is presented as a square, but if you find it too obvious, you can drag the border of the mini-player window to adjust it to a bar, so that it doesn’t get in the way when you’re playing – after all, that’s the main thing I do when I turn on Spotify, is listen to songs.
In addition, Spotify has also recently launched a music video feature for specific markets. For songs with music videos, you can switch to music video playback via the toggle button, and if your Spotify account belongs to the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, or Kenya and you have a Premium subscription, you can see music video content for songs by some of the most popular artists in the world. artists.
Mozilla Firefox: The PDF reader supports cursor browsing mode, and in Firefox View, open tabs can be sorted by recent activity or tab order. The Windows taskbar Jump List has been optimized, and Firefox for macOS now supports calls to the macOS fullscreen API to handle all types of fullscreen windows.
Google Chrome: Updated to v123, version lower than Google Chrome 81 will not be able to log in to synchronize browser data; with data synchronization turned on, the new tab page adds a new feature for opening tabs from other devices, making it easier for users to quickly resume browsing. Also uses Enhanced Secure Browsing by default.