UE and Beats have released the Bluetooth speakers you need this summer

Hi friends! welcome to Installer No. 44, your guide to the best and Edge-the most interesting things in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I’m glad you found us, and you can also read all the old editions at Installer (home page.)

This week I wrote about why i love the Boox Palmaread on hot dog contest And the history of Markdown And the future of streamingwatching Shoresy And Federer and a lot of football (it was a very sporty week), mourning the end of the Long shape podcast, develop a strange obsession with Saltwater TaffyI’m testing the Apple Vision Pro again and trying every method I can find to make a great iced coffee at home.

I also have some awesome new Bluetooth speakers for you, the new season of Hulu’s best show, an app to turn anything into audio, and so much more.

Also, quick news on housekeeping: no Installer Next week. It’s a holiday here in the US (and also my birthday), so I’ll be out grilling and getting sunburned. But keep the recommendations coming and we’ll be back with a big one right after.

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• EU Wonderboom 4. A few weeks ago I said that the best speaker advice I could give you was to buy a UE Wonderboom. I stand by that advice, especially now that there’s a new model that charges via USB-C! Everboomwith a built-in carabiner and some extra sound, is very tempting, but you can’t beat that for $100.
• The Beats pill. More new speakers! I have a thing for a nice portable audio system, and the new Pill looks pretty good. Chris Welch likes its sound, and I like that it plays wired audio and charges other gadgets via the USB-C port. Beats did well here, though I’m still Wonderboomin’.
• Edge clothes. I really try not to complain Edge There’s too much going on here, but I’m really excited about the new things we’re working on. I particularly like the hoodie and the mug (well, a good size). Reorganizing our store has been a fun project, and I hope you enjoy this project too!
• “Death of the follower and the future of creativity on the web.” I always love hearing Jack Conte talk about the Internet and came across this SXSW talk where he basically talks about how “follow” and “subscribe” changed the world – and how we need to change it again.
• ElevenLabs Reader. ElevenLabs does AI voices better than any product I’ve ever seen and has built this iPhone app (with Android coming soon, apparently) in a really smart way. Simply share any article, book, or PDF with the app, choose a voice, and it will read it out loud.
• Blackmagic Camera for Android. There’s a really annoying lack of great third-party camera apps for Android, but this one is good, with plenty of manual controls and instant feedback. It’s only on a few phones at the moment, but I’ll take what I can get.
• Notion sites. It’s a small but very clever thing: create a Notion page and, with one click, publish it to the web. If you want, for example, a one-page personal website or a quick and easy event page. It’s much easier than anything else.
• The bear season 3. I agree with everyone who is annoyed that Hulu dropped this season all at once instead of a week at a time – drag it out, give us time to obsess over it! That said, I will watch every second of it this weekend. And then rewatch all three seasons as soon as I’m done.
• Figma Slides. Figma got some pretty big updates across the board this week: a redesign, a bunch of AI stuff, and more. But Slides is particularly cool. It’s a mix of a design tool and a presentation tool, and it looks like it’s a lot more fun to use than PowerPoint.

I think the first one Sara Dietschy the video I ever saw was the one where she explained perfectly How to Vlog with Casey Neistat(That track, by the way, is like a perfect time capsule of 2016, and I still miss those days of YouTube.) She’s since become one of my favorite creators, talking about everything from cameras to fashion. creativity through cars and quite simply… life. And more recently, as a young parent myself, it’s been really cool to see her experience so many similar things to what’s happening in my house.

I asked Sara to share her home screen with us, curious to see how she balances the things of life with the things of creators. Both are very demanding, and we all only have one home screen, you know? It turns out there’s a little bit of both in there, but mostly the things of life.

Here’s Sara’s home screen, along with some information about what apps she uses and why:

The phone: iPhone 15 Pro.

The wallpaper: My wallpaper is always a rotation of cute baby pictures. She’s my whole life right now. I mean, look at her… right? I love widgets, so I always have rocks that I’m looking at and the weather in the foreground.

Applications : Phone, Clock, Settings, Camera, Photos, Drive, Amazon, Blackmagic Camera, YouTube, Tesla, DoorDash, Apple Notes, Google Authenticator, Vivint, WhatsApp, Nanit, Messages, Hatch Baby, Safari, Gmail.

My home screen is reserved for apps that I use multiple times a day.

The tasks widget comes from the Things app – where all my tasks go to die 🙂 But at least they’re super organized.

I also asked Sara to share some of her current passions. This is what she answered me:

• Blackmagic Camera. An AMAZING camera app that lets you shoot Apple Log with a reasonable file size. (The shooting log in Apple Camera will let you massive ProRes HQ files.)
• Notes on the apple. I recently downsized my team and became obsessed with the speed and simplicity of Notes over Notion, which I used religiously. Now Notion is only used for projects I’m working on that require other people.
• Nanit. Best baby monitor ever. Feature rich app makes the overpriced hardware worth it. PiP works great and you can monitor the baby monitor sound in the background while you listen to a podcast or music.
• I’m so passionate about 3D printing right now. It’s led me to a lot of “maker” YouTube channels. I’m currently binge-watching Tested by Adam Savage channel.

Here is what Installer the community is active this week. I also want to know what you are doing at the moment! E-mail installer@theverge.com or message me on Signal — @davidpierce.11 ​​— with your recommendations for anything and everything, and we’ll feature some of our favorites here each week. And for more great recommendations than I could fit here, check out the responses to this post on Threads.

“See the failures in Installer reminded me of another great chess game! Really bad failures by Zach Gage is apparently very good for my brain. It’s available on iOS and Android with an in-app purchase, and it’s free if you pay for Apple Arcade! -Harvey

“I’m sad that more and more people don’t know about it”17776” And “20020», stories from the distant future about football and intelligent satellites. – Lego

“I have just finished Temptation of the Force by Tessa Gratton. This is the latest novel by Star Wars: The High Republic storyline, and these continue to be some of my favorite books of the last 10 years, certainly in the Star Wars universe. They take place a few hundred years before the films, and I would recommend them to any fans. -Justin

“Start preparing pancetta and capicola using Umai Dry Vacuum Bags. I don’t have a good place to dry and cure meat in our house in the city, so it’s nice to be able to do it in the fridge. Bonus: I can use the new vacuum sealer my family gave me for Father’s Day! » –Timothy

“Anil Dash wrote two articles on what a board of directors doesand it’s fascinating! Required reading if you’re interested in how corporate governance works. – Richard

“I got into sideloading. It’s amazing what you can get with a developer ID and the cracked iPhone apps that are out there.” – Dawit

“I can’t stop playing Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor on PC. In this roguelike, you play as a dwarf who mines precious minerals and fights hordes of insects on an alien planet. It’s incredibly fun, easy to pick up, and the weapon and skill systems are great to use. » –Abhimanyu

“Some time ago I went through the same journey you seem to be on: ‘I want a Light phonebut… what if I just turned my iPhone into a Light Phone? The option I prefer is to build my own with Widgy Widgets. It is a very powerful application that allows you to create your own widgets. It’s not intuitive and has way more power than I ever needed, but it’s amazing to build your own Light Phone. – To M

“I’m about halfway through Adrian Tchaikovsky’s new science fiction book, Service model, and it’s a great story about AI and our dependence on technology. I can’t let go! – Sighs

Before going to bed, my wife and I sit down almost every evening to watch something together. Sometimes we chat about everything, sometimes we watch the show, sometimes we just sit there looking at our phones the whole time. It’s nice in all three cases! I think a lot of people have their late night shows, but let me tell you about ours: The Great Food Truck Race on the Food Network. (Well, now Max, but you know what I mean.) It’s like a cooking show meets Fantastic race, there are 16 seasons — and season 17 starts this weekend! – and it’s all silly and fantastic. My wife and I have also developed several hundred food truck ideas while watching the show, which is also a lot of fun.

If you need a new show to watch without straining your head, check out food trucks. (And if you have any other shows like this that I should watch, let me know. We’re up to date with food trucks, and that’s a problem.)

Happy holidays to all partying. See you in two weeks!