Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Hello, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 130, your guide to the best and On the edge– things in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, don’t forget to subscribe, and you can read all the previous posts at Installer landing page.)
This week, I have been reading about Victor Wembanyama and mahjong and Merlin Mann’s pearls of wisdomviewing information the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee more than I expected, looking way too more movies about lighting up a home studio, spending countless hours managing edits Vivaldilate cleaning Google Photos library, and finally – finally – organizing my home office. No.
It also features the best Bond game in years, important updates to the famous ring of wisdom, a new entry in the Spider-Verse, and more. Let’s do this.
(As always, the best part of Installer and your thoughts and advice. What are you watching / reading / playing / downloading / cutting in beautiful colors this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone who would be interested Installergive it to them and tell them to do it register here.)
- 007 The Greatest Light. I’ve played a lot of James Bond games over the years, and I’ve been disappointed by most of them. (At least since then Goldeneyeone of the best games of all time.) Almost all stories, this is the Bond game we’ve all been waiting for. I don’t know how I’m going to wait for the Switch 2 version to come out.
- Ring of Oura 5. My biggest complaint with the Oura ring has always been the size – that is just big enough that it seems to fit into everything I wear, and I’m not used to it. The new one has new equipment, but it is also lighter and smaller. That’s a great achievement in and of itself.
- Spider-Black. The Spider-Verse movies remain some of the best games I’ve seen in years. This new show looks like it’s going to be cute, but maybe it’s just a little too cheesy…I’ll keep watching.
- Halide Mark III. Halide is still the gold standard for third-party camera software, and the new improvements it brings a very useful thing: You can now capture RAW images with other cameras and use Halide to process them with new Halide filters and filters. Halide is a much better artist than I am, I’ll tell you that.
- Sennheiser Momentum 5. Sennheiser probably deserves more attention in the world of headphones. I know a more for the likes of the Momentum 4s, and the new model comes with more battery life, better noise cancellation, and a user-replaceable battery. I’m eager to try this when it ships next month, especially to see if the ANC will be with Sony and Bose.
- Mina the Hollower. According to, uh, everyone, this might be the best game of the year so far. It comes from the developer behind Knight of the spadeand people are comparing it to some of the greatest sports of all time. It’s a beautiful game that hides something big and ambitious, and I can’t wait to explore it.
- Back rooms. I don’t know if you should watch Kane Parsons’ amazing, brilliant YouTube series before watching the video that turned those videos in, or if you should go into the movie in the dark about what’s to come. Either way, this is a great YouTube-Hollywood story, and a horror movie you shouldn’t miss.
- Spotify Notes. A group of mixed media, defined, long-term, and Premium users can listen to a few for free each month. There’s a selection of oddball stories in here, as well as classics, too hunting for a large treasure of cocaine.
- Star City. For All People is a long-time favorite show here in the Installerverse, so this Soviet-focused show might be on your watch list. From what I hear, it’s not good FAM‘s standard, but the cool place just keeps coming, and I’m here for it.
- Photo of Ferrari Luce. This has to be the most expensive thing in the history of Installerokay? I don’t care about the looks of the first Ferrari EV (and it looks neither does anyone else), but there are some pretty cool things going on inside. If you want to marry me, I won’t mind.
I like to talk to the shop Danielle Steussy. Danielle is the product manager Seasidewhich means that he spends his days thinking and working on ways to make our experience, and the whole of journalism and news online, better. (There’s also a zero chance you’ve met Danielle, now that I think about it – she spends a lot of time talking to people On the edge community about how we can best serve them.) Danielle has driven a lot of the work behind our new website, and she’s got a lot of great stuff up her sleeve. Including one, coming soon, that I know will please many of us.
Anyway, I asked Danielle to share the home screen with us, I want to know if we all On the edge Nerds are the same or if, like a creative person, they may have a very different idea for their phone. A little bit of everything, it is! Here’s Danielle’s home screen, including details about the apps she uses and why:
Phone: iPhone 14 Pro in Deep Purple. I’m due for a promotion, but I’ll take this one for a long time. Fun fact: I bought it and lived in Australia when the 14 Pro first came out, so I ended up with the UK version which has one eSIM and one physical SIM. Moving back to the US with all my phone numbers was difficult.
Above: My son’s photo editing!
Applications: Favorites, Google Maps, Photos, Camera, ChatGPT, Google, Chrome, Brave, Calendar, Apple Notes, Find My, CareConnect, Phone, Messages, Spotify, Mail.
I’m trying to spend less time on my phone by making it more useful and less boring.
I use Spotify for podcasts and music. I’ve been a big fan of Spotify for years. I coached fitness for ten years and Spotify was my co-coach. Obviously not a fan of the 20 year old photo…
I LOVE a Hatch sound system for my little one. This program is very good. I like to control my child’s behavior at bedtime.
I also asked Danielle to share a few things she has going on right now. Here’s what he posted:
- Death by Lightning. It’s just finished. BELOVED.
- ChatPRD. An AI tool for marketing managers, developed by Claire Vo, who has been an interesting person to follow in the PM/AI space. I often use a rubber duck to organize my thoughts.
- The Techno Sapiens letter. Evidence-based guidelines for parenting in the digital age. This is an accessible letter written by Jacqueline Nesi, a psychologist and professor at Brown University. It makes me feel… better to raise a child with so much technology.
- Growing tomatoes. Fortunately, I live on the Central Coast of California, where tomatoes grow naturally. I have 13 plants this year: those that survived last season, volunteers, and extras purchased from our university’s Ag department. I’m growing Chocolate Tasmanian, Bodacious, Beauty King, and others, they are all well-followed very much planting matrix for Google Sheets.
This is what it is Installer community is in this week. I want to know what you are doing right now! Email installer@theverge.com or message me on Signal – @davidpierce.11 - with your thoughts on anything and everything, and we’ll have our favorites here every week. For more good information, see the answers to this post on Threads and this post on Bluesky.
“Finally I’ll be back Indiana Jones and the Great Circle to ps5. Such a fun, well done and amazing game with just the right amount of difficulty. Scratch that Unrecognizable itching. Really digging. ” — Colin
“Since storage costs are still very high, I can also find files/images burned on CDs and DCDs using ImgBurn programs.”—Allen
“Real thinking Emotions in the movie a second time after enjoying it (appreciatively) on the first watch.” – Kev
“Now I like to play Search: Addition in early arrival on Steam. It’s an absolute blast. A retro, dystopian theme, Blade Runner-esque side scroller/shooter/platformer and it’s very confusing. ” -Kent
“With the death of Allbirds, I have been shaken Oofs tennis shoes, which are the perfect shoes for the beach, the office, and a long weekend. -Jimmy
“I just finished Kurt Vonnegut’s book from 1952, Piano playerabout a near-future dystopia where automation has displaced all workers and engineers and managers live a luxurious life despite doing nothing. Nothing to do with that!!” —Andi
“I bought a Kobo Clara BW in the month of January in order to read more and scroll less. I’ve been pretty good at that goal so far, but I’d like to advise Red Rising The writings of Pierce Brown. I’m on the third book, Morning Starand so far so good. It has sci-fi, romance, and social commentary, and it’s a great series with an ever-growing plot! So far I’m really enjoying it, and reading on Kobo has been a lot of fun for me.” —James
“He saw Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu video yesterday. It was only two episodes into the show but it was great. ” — Justin
“I downloaded Poppy but I think it’s a very loud word and sometimes it’s not right.” A few months ago I had an encounter Additional informationthe first AI email and calendar app. It’s out of Beta and I really like it. “- Jay
Spotify’s Page Match Features are my favorite new(ish) piece of tech forever. You use it to scan your book, on paper or on an e-reader, and Spotify calculates where you are in the book and instantly picks up the audiobook in the right place. It can also do the opposite, directing you back to the appropriate page in your book. They laws.
I have Spotify Premium, so I get several hours of audiobooks for free every month, and being able to easily switch between reading and listening has helped me get through books very quickly. Read in bed; listen and walk the dog; read in bed; listen while I fold the laundry. I can’t recommend it enough.
Also: Listening to audiobooks and reading. I don’t answer questions. No audiobooks! See you next week!
Follow topics and authors from this article to see more like this on your home page and to receive email updates.
