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My Top Apps of 2018


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Back at the end of 2014, I noticed that a few apps had a radical impact on my life. So much so that it justified the title “5 apps that changed my life last year”. It was popular so it, of course, justified a follow-up article the next year. By 2016 I decided that “change my life” was no longer justified and instead I went for “had a big impact” and last year I simply did a review of “apps to start the new year right”. But this year I thought I’d share my personal top apps from 2018. These are grouped into “new” apps for me and older apps that I’m still using and are still important.

It’s worth noting that these are from an iOS perspective, but some of these apps are also available on Android.

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Habitica: Gamify Your Life [Review]


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Habitica is a task manager app that was recently featured in the iOS app store. It is also available on Android.

What caught my attention about it was that it used gamification as a motivator to help you accomplish your task. Gamification is the act of adding game-like elements to make something that may be mundane to make it interesting. It is usually used for education.

This 8bit RPG style game/task manager allows you to first create a character for yourself with sever customizing options. A Zelda style guide walks you through each step as you set up your account.

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What Should Be Your Next Mobile Phone? [Video]


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Have you been thinking about getting a new mobile phone?

It’s something that most of us go through every few years when our service plans offer us an upgrade or we happen to drop them in such a way that there is no way they can be repaired. With so many different phones out on the market, it can be really tough to work out which device you should get.

That’s why this handy little video from the Verge might help you a lot. In it they look at their recommended smartphone for most people and some alternatives (if you don’t like their top picks).

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Google Assistant vs Siri 2016 [Video]


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Google is making a big deal about the Google assistant in the new Pixel phones and Allo app.

But is it really all that different from Siri?

After all, Siri and previous versions of the Google Voice assistance have been around for a few years. In the video below, Marques Brownlee (or MKBHD) takes both of them through their paces by asking them to do some simple tasks.

Which is the winner?

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Burned by the Samsung Note 7


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The Note 7 is officially dead. Not just philosophically, though I plan to never spend a cent on Samsung again. But not just corporately, though the production is dead, they are taking a $3 billion dollar hit (And not going to have to pay taxes this year. Could even get a refund.), but all Note 7s are mandatory recalled. The brand that Samsung has is now the butt of every tech joke, and I don’t think the Internet is going to forget it any time soon.

I figure I’d share my thoughts and experiences on this whole mess via an op-ed.

To be clear, this is not an Apple or Android conversation. Go here if you want to have that debate.

Here are my experiences so far from the Note 7 failure, both personal and not:

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