Laziest Way to Use a VPN, Agonizing Alarm Clock & More From This Week’s Top Downloads
Every week we share the number of downloads for all platforms to help you get started. Here are the top downloads this week.
This sinister alarm clock app is the only reason I am awake right now.
I believe in my dreams. Let’s say I dream of getting to an airport or finding a final exam room that I haven’t studied for. When the alarm goes off, I put it off: I have a very important mission and cannot be interrupted. That’s why I need this wicked, horrible alarm clock.
Laziest and cheapest way to bypass your ISP
Congress decided that your ISP should be allowed to sell your personal browsing data, but the solutions to get around this are a little complicated, costly, or downright painful . What’s a lazy internet person to do? Use Opera.
iOS 10.3 Introduces New File System, Adds In-App Reviews & Find My AirPods
Apple released iOS 10.3 today, which isn’t a particularly exciting update, but it does have a few minor improvements, including a new file system worth mentioning.
Night Shift, Apple’s Auto Screen Dimming Software, Now Available for Your Mac
If you’re a fan of Night Shift on your iPhone or F.lux on your Mac , you’ll be delighted to know that Apple is releasing an update today for macOS that adds a time-based color change feature to your Mac. …
This app sends your message to your congressman’s voicemail as well as to the whole world
If you’re having trouble getting calls through to your member of Congress, an app called Stance says it might help. You just record a message and it keeps trying until it can deliver that message to voicemail. However, there is a big caveat.
How to make your browsing anonymous with a Tor-based Raspberry Pi hotspot
If you’ve been thinking about trying Tor to anonymize all your web browsing, you can just download a browser and try it out, but it’s much more fun to create your own highly portable proxy that you can easily connect to on a whim. … Log into your Raspberry Pi.
Microsoft Excel finally gets real-time collaboration
If you are using an online application such as Google Docs, then you have long been accustomed to the fact that several people are working on the same document or spreadsheet at the same time. Microsoft Excel is finally taking a step into this brave new world of simultaneous editing and adding co-authoring capabilities to spreadsheets.
Google Calendar is now optimized for iPad
If you’re the type of person who has ditched clunky laptops for a lean lifestyle with tablets, you’ll be delighted to hear that Google has finally optimized its iPad-only calendar app.
IFTTT adds support for iPhone calendar and app store
If This Then That (IFTTT), one of our favorite automation services , today introduced support for both the iOS calendar and the app store. This means you can do cool things like add events to your iPhone calendar from Alexa, integrate weather reports, and more.