Prisma Turns Your Photos Into Works Of Art

Aug 25, 2016 | Android, Apple, mobile, photos, web_services

Prisma is a free app for iOS and Android that turns your photos into works of art in seconds. In a way it’s similar to the filters that have been around for Instagram and Snapchat for years, but these are the best filters you’ve ever seen. Look at a few samples, then...

Google Duo And Communication Overload

Aug 21, 2016 | Android, Apple, audio, Facebook, Google, Google+, Microsoft, mobile, phone, Skype, video

Google introduced a new app for video chats last week. Google Duo makes one-on-one video chats as easy as possible, with nothing required except a phone number and someone on the other end who’s running the app or willing to install it. Google Duo doesn’t even require...

Pokémon Go And The Future In Front Of Your Face

Jul 24, 2016 | Android, Apple, augmented reality, games, HoloLens, Microsoft, phone

Pokémon Go was the most downloaded app in its first week of release in the history of Apple’s iOS App Store. Everyone has been playing Pokémon Go. It is the biggest example yet of Things That Unexpectedly Become Worldwide Obsessions Even Though They’re Pointless...

Scan Documents And Create PDFs With Your Phone

Jul 11, 2016 | Android, Apple, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, mobile, Office, OneDrive, OneNote, phone, photos, web_services

It has become easy to use your phone for quick scans and to create PDFs on the fly. Find an app to use and remember it when you get a receipt or document that should be scanned on the fly. Each of the major cloud services – Microsoft OneDrive (Office Lens), Box (Box...

The Future Is Full Of Chromebooks

Jul 7, 2016 | Android, Apple, business, Chrome, Chromebook, computers, Google, laptops, Microsoft, Windows10

I’m not good at predictions. Tim Cook, the CEO of the largest company in the world, called me a twit during a global presentation a few years ago because I made a poor prediction. (Seriously. Here are the details.) I made a commitment then to avoid sweeping...

As Ignorable As It Is Interesting: Increase Productivity With The Sounds You Won’t Hear

Jun 29, 2016 | Android, Apple, audio

“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.“ – Brian Eno, liner notes for Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978) Ambient music and sounds can...