GoKawiilis editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 127, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, my Scorpion challenges your Sub-Zero to a duel, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)
I also have for you an exciting comeback for a fabulous workout app, a concert doc you won’t want to miss, a new fun-sounding new board game, a book about creativity, and much more. Let’s get into it.
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The Drop
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Adam Molina has very good taste in just about everything. He’s the productivity nerd I nod along to during the Waveform podcast (which he produces), he’s always sharing cool stuff in his Cool Supply newsletter, and he seems to have basically the exact watch collection I aspire to. What I’m saying is, he’s perfect Installer-bait.
I’ve had Adam on my Screen Share list forever, but figured this week was the perfect week — Adam just launched an app called Color Snap, which gives you a color every day and the challenge to go photograph that exact color in the real world. Extremely cool idea, extremely fun app, I suspect you’ll dig it too. And a perfect excuse to have Adam share what he’s into right now.
Here’s Adam’s homescreen, plus some info on the apps he uses and why:
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