Top Downloads This Week
Every week we share the number of downloads for all platforms to help you get started. Here are the top downloads this week.
Start the Game Boy emulator in a terminal
Sometimes you just get stuck working in your Terminal and need a little break. In those days, a Game Boy game or two can help pass the time.
Hound, the super-fast natural language virtual assistant, finally out of beta
Android / iOS: Hound is fast – very fast – and while your phone is likely already equipped with its own virtual assistant, Hound integrates with services like Uber and Yelp. The team behind it hopes more will follow and a truly cross-platform assistant will emerge that does the same job for you on any device.
Best movie streaming app for iPhone
In a world where multiple apps help you watch movies on the big screen, there is one app that beats all the others. It’s free, easy to use, and the best way to buy movie tickets on the go. Suitable for iPhone near you: Fandango.
Wallpaper Environment for Mac automatically downloads beautiful desktop images
OS X: Inspired by our old wednesday wallpaper series, reader Jason has created this open source app that automatically downloads the best photos of the day from Flickr, NASA and NatGeo to use (selectable or random) as wallpaper.
Sunset Firewatch Desktop
We used to introduce Firewatch Desktop , but now that the game is out, we see more than a few – and who can blame you, the atmosphere of the game is very engaging and the scenery is great. Reader Jadit has pieced this together.
The shelf is a special notebook for all your thoughts on books.
iPhone: Taking notes as you read a book is a great way to solidify thoughts in your mind and explore various theories about what you are reading. While you can do this in any note-taking app, Shelf is all about books and has some features that make it useful for just that.
Added automatic night mode to drafts, improved interface, added new icons, and more.
iOS: Drafts started out as an easy way to take notes on iOS , but has since evolved into a powerful text-based automation tool. Today he is refining some of these features and adding several new ones.
You can now share PDFs via WhatsApp Conversations
WhatsApp is still one of the most popular alternative messaging apps out there , and it’s getting a little better now. The company is introducing a feature to enable document sharing starting from PDFs.
Chrome Dev on Android can add articles you might like to new tab page
Android: A new tab in Chrome may not be where you expect the suggested articles to be, but Google is experimenting with them anyway. You can enable this hidden feature in the dev version of Chrome for Android with a simple checkbox.
Turn-by-turn navigation: Google Maps vs Waze
You really don’t think there can be that much difference between turn-by-turn navigation apps, but even a simple glance at Google Maps and Waze shows how different they are. They may belong to the same company, but they work in completely different ways.