Browsing: Apps

First and foremost, the Fediverse is not a technology. It’s not ActivityPub, it’s not WordPress, or Mastodon, or Threads. The Fediverse is an idea. It’s the idea that things can be better—that people’s ideas are valuable, and that those people should be able to express those ideas however they see fit. The fediverse is hope that people can sustain themselves on a platform that’s not designed to take from them, but to give to them.

I really like the app, I was really excited for it to come out just over a year ago, I followed all of the reporting around it. I want it to be better, but I feel like Instagram is going to have it save Threads from itself in order for things to improve.

Over the years, people have often considered apps and websites to be two totally different things. In some cases they certainly are, but in other cases they can be one in the same for the most part.

So I don’t really have a set plan for this post, I’ve usually at least got some notes that I like to go off when writing these articles, but this one is going to be off the cuff. For this post I want to talk about this concept of a “digital home” that I’ve been thinking about for a while.

Apple originally released their Sports app back in February of 2024 after it had been rumored a bit, but there was no real enthusiasm behind it. Safe to say this app came out to a rather…confused audience. Nobody was really sure why the app was created; it kinda took some stuff out of the News and TV apps, but also not really.

In today’s world we have some kind of login information for just about every site we visit frequently. From our email accounts, banking accounts, credit card accounts and so much more. It can be tough to memorize each and every password for each different site, especially since it’s never recommended to use the same password for more than one site.

Taking a page from Cliff Wade’s book, I’m listing the apps software, and devices that I use daily.
I’m open to suggestions for different apps/software if you have any. Feel free to drop them in the comments below or contact me on any of my social media platforms.

In almost 45 years of tech nerdery I’ve covered a fair amount of ground software-wise. I saw a question posted online not too long ago, asking people what the “best app you’ve ever used?” and it had me thinking through everything I can remember messing with over the decades. After giving it a chunk of consideration I arrived at the answer.

Nova Launcher has been around for well over 12 years at this point and has been the number one ranked 3rd party home screen replacement app in the Google Play Store for most of that time.

Today I’m going to talk about the Android apps that I use most often on my device or along side of my device. These are apps that I highly recommend to others to use for various reasons.