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NextDoor Connects You With Your Neighborhood

January 24, 2020 by RSS Feed

Reviewed by Jimbo

NextDoor opens up the world of your neighborhood in a way that makes it easy to make the most of where you live.

Designed to be your neighborhood hub, NextDoor lets you easily discover what’s going on in your neighborhood, connect with your neighbors and also be a platform for buying and selling goods locally.

Features:

NextDoor by NextDoor.com Inc. brings your neighborhood to you in a way that lets you be as connected as you like.

Specifically, you can use NextDoor to help you locate nearby events, services, stores and even people. You can put stuff up for sale or find things that other locals are looking to get rid of, often for free.

How about local yard sales or a dog walker or a babysitter? Think of one part of it as a community newsletter with ads for local products and services.

If you want to get more involved in your community you can even use NextDoor to help you set up a neighborhood watch.

It’s frequently the case that when you move into a new neighborhood it takes quite awhile to get to know your neighbors and even longer to figure out what’s going on and who’s doing what. NextDoor is a great way to short-circuit that process, get to know folks, and generally feel more comfortable.

Appearance and Layout:

NextDoor iPhone App

This is a simply designed app and that’s exactly what you want. Clear navigational labels make it easy to find your way around. The in-app color scheme is impressively clean cut as well.

NextDoor’s designers did a good job of creating an app that is pleasantly colorful, but not overdone.

Features are logically organized, making it easy to find whatever you may be looking for. Be it items for sale, crime & safety info, or events going on nearby.

While NextDoor doesn’t have graphics that are anything to write home about, what’s more important is that the app has a cleanly designed layout that makes it easy to navigate while being very aesthetically pleasing.

Value: [Rating4.5/5]

Overall we’d have to say that NextDoor should be on your phone whether you’re new to the neighborhood or a long time resident.

As testament to our high opinion of this app, it was included in our 2019 roundup entitled “39 Great Apps For Your New iPhone“.

Plus, even if you’re about to move out and you’re just finding out about this app, don’t wait. It’s a great way to get rid of all that stuff you’d really rather not move to your new digs.

NextDoor requires iOS 11.4 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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David’s Disposable is Lots of Fun but Light on Function

January 12, 2020 by RSS Feed

Reviewed by Jimbo

If you’re into taking pictures with your iPhone, and who isn’t, you’ve probably downloaded one or another of the many apps that offer enhanced capabilities beyond what Apple provides.

Between filters that change or add to the picture you’re taking, and apps that offer amazing customizations after the fact, there are no shortage of ways to jazz it up.

But emulating a disposable camera? Is that too retro to be fun?

David’s Disposable app does retro like few other apps do, so let’s take a look and see.

Concept and Functionality:

David’s Disposable, an app by David Dobrik, certainly isn’t a new idea as far as photography goes. After all, cardboard box disposable cameras were pretty popular in the ’80s.

So what’s the point of turning your iPhone’s photographic wonder into something that used a fixed focus lens and who’s only purpose was to be a cheap thowaway?

As strange as it may seem, David’s Disposable is an incredibly fun app even though we’re challenged to explain why.

The interface is one of my favorite aspects of David’s Disposable. When you fire it up it takes the form of the back of a disposable 35mm box camera complete with flash indicator, view finder, film advance wheel and shutter button. All in all very clean and easy to navigate.

Touching the shutter button takes a photo and provides a nice old-school shutter sound. The flash is on by default and so if you left it on your picture was taken with a flash. No “auto” mode here, the flash is either on or off. Keep in mind, though, that there’s no “selfie” option, like its physical counterpart, you can only use the rear-facing camera.

After you take your shot it lets you know that your picture will be ready to view at 9am the next morning. By turning on notifications for the app, it will let you know when they’re available. At at exactly 9am you will be notified that your photos are ready.

At that point you can view the photos, share them, or have them printed and sent to you.

Features:

David’s Disposable iPhone App

One thing that surprised me about David’s Disposable is the lack of fancy features. It emulates an disposable box camera, which basically just took pictures with or without a flash. Period.

If you like what you see in the viewfinder you snap a picture. That’s it. No fancy effects or zooming or video.

If you touch the icon of photos in the lower left corner you will see 35mm film rolls for the shots that aren’t ready yet, as well as the shots that have been developed and are viewable.

This is a nice touch and totally in keeping with the retro theme of this app.

If you like you can also turn off ads for $0.99.

One thing we’re not happy about is that the minimum order for prints is 25. That’s a lot of photos and too many in our view.

Value:

David’s Disposable can be downloaded from the App Store for free and is designed for iPhone.

When it comes to price, no cost means there’s no price barrier to download the app and check out what it has to offer.

Overall, David’s Disposable is a great old school photo app that allows you to quickly and easily take simple no-frills photos.

It offers a faithful disposable box camera simulation that users will enjoy and no doubt have some fun with. How long the novelty will last is something else.

David’s Disposable requires iOS 13.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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Brave is the Latest and Greatest Browser for Your iPhone

January 09, 2020 by RSS Feed

Reviewed by Jimbo

Unless you follow developments in the world of Apple apps pretty closely you may not have heard of the Brave browser. We’ve been using it for sometime now and have only good things to report.

Brave Private Web Browser from Brave Software is, of course, in the same app category as Safari, Firefox and Google Chrome, as well as others. From our experience it stands above them all.

Even if you haven’t had much experience with the non-Apple browsers mentioned above, no worries, trust us that Brave is a stellar alternative to all of them, including Safari, Apple’s stock browser that came on your device.

While Safari and Brave are similar in a number of ways, Brave has some robust privacy features that users of the Apple’s own Safari browser will wish they had.

Frankly, with privacy being such a big topic these days, and for good reason, these features alone make it worth your time. But there’s more.

Concept and Functionality

At its core, Brave is a web browser, and as such it actually does this job with remarkable finesse. You’ll notice right away the app takes a very familiar and comfortable form on your screen, whether small screen or iPad.

All the core functionality is there – tabbed browsing on larger screens, the hamburger menu with all your options and selections, but with special privacy features that sets it apart.

Brave Private Web Browser iPhone App

Features

Where the Brave browser really shines is the feature set available right from the start.

As soon as you open the browser, you are greeted with a welcome screen asking you to select your default search engine. We highly recommend DuckDuckGo. It is privacy-oriented and does not save your searches or use them to inform 3rd parties about your interests.

You are then shown some intro screens to let you know about the key aspects of Brave. The first of these features is Brave Shields which allows you to block trackers that web sites use to follow you around the web.

The next feature is Brave Rewards. This lets you earn Basic Attention Tokens (BATs) for viewing ads that respect your privacy. We encourage using Brave Rewards because it will, hopefully, lead to more advertisers being more aware of their responsibility to your privacy.

Don’t be too concerned about all of this though. Once you select your preferred search engine and either opt-in or not to Brave Rewards, you’ll see that Brave is really just a very, very good browser.

You can also quite easily import all of your existing bookmarks to complete the setup.

We think one of the features of Brave that you’ll love the most is that it has a very nice simple UI. It gets the job done quickly and easily without any excess fluff. We appreciate that since when you’re browsing the web you just want to finish what you’re doing as quickly as possible with as little effort as possible.

One last note is that this is not an iPhone-only browser. it’s available for Android, MacOS, Windows (both 32 and 64 bit) and Linux. If you do use it on multiple devices you benefit even more by sync’ing across them.

Overall Value

This free browser is an awesome value and word about it is spreading fast. Brave claims that it ended 2019 with over 10 million users. We have no problem believing that and expect that number to jump dramatically in 2020 and the years to come.

The bottom line is that Brave is a slick, feature-rich privacy-focused browsing alternative for all of your devices and if you take it for a spin, we think you’ll agree that, all-in-all, it’s the best one out there.

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The iPad Pro Can, and Will, Replace Your Mac

December 18, 2019 by RSS Feed

An iPad Can Easily Replace Your Mac or PC

Although you’ll see different opinions about this across varying iOS-oriented, or more recently iPadOS, articles online, we’re here to tell you that the iPad can definitely be used as your only computer.

Irrespective of the opinion voiced by ZDNet, we believe the future for most casual users, which is most users, will be an iPad with the appropriate add-ons.

The iPad has come a long way since its introduction on April 3rd, 2010. It was quite an innovation then but its potential had merely been hinted at. Of course anyone who ventured over to an Apple store to check one out was instantly blown away (us included). But we could only imagine the power and flexibility to come.

Now, in 2019, much of the raw potential of this incredible computing device has been fulfilled. Witness the professional level apps available across such heretofore Mac-only domains such as photo editing, word processing, powerful gaming, video editing, and much more.

But wait, that’s great you say, but don’t take away my MacBook Pro. We say, why not? What can you do with a MacBook Pro that you can’t do with a properly configured iPad Pro? And there’s the key, a “properly configured” iPad Pro. And we’re not talking about Apple-made accessories.

Of course if you’re a pro using specific applications that require the raw power of a MacBook Pro that’s a horse of a different color. We’re not talking to you.

This is about all the Apple-ites out there who use social media apps, watch videos, open browsers and use Apple apps for light-duty work. We’re looking at you “typical user”.

So go ahead, be bold ditch the Mac, pick up an iPad Pro and trust us, you’ll never look back.

We paired our iPad Pro with a 360X Keyboard from YEKBEE, a great keyboard that won’t slow down touch typists with ill-placed keys like many of its competitors. Besides the key placement, not a trivial issue, we also really like the fact that it folds completely flat and lets you swing the iPad around so you have it back to being a pad, not a laptop.

The next thing we did was to turn on mouse capability by going to Settings/Accessibility/Touch and turn on “AssistiveTouch”. You then go to “Devices/Bluetooth Devices” and add your favorite bluetooth mouse. We used a Dell Travel Mouse just to be sure this capability wasn’t Apple-centric.

Once you do that you’ll see a spot that you can move around with the mouse and use it as if it was your finger tip. There’s also a white circle in the lower right side of your iPad that you click to go back to the home screen as well as to access other controls.

Since that dot is now your finger tip, you can click and hold to move things around, go from page to page of your apps, and pretty much anything that you would normally do with your finder directly on the iPad screen.

All in all it’s works great and makes using the iPad even easier for “desktop type work”, as easy as using a true laptop. To get rid of the white spot simple turn off “AssistiveTouch”.

From our day-to-day use, outside of any hardcore programming or image/video editing, we can hardly find anything we do that can’t be done perfectly well using an iPad. The mouse control gives you enough fine control for text editing and the combo of touch, virtual keyboard, real keyboard, and mouse opens up the iPad to be a much more productive device.

The bottom line is that for the vast majority of users, the iPad running iPadOS 13.2 or greater, paired with the right bluetooth keyboard and mouse makes for an extremely capable laptop replacement.

Well there you have it. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

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Skilli World Review

December 02, 2019 by RSS Feed

Before the smartphone revolution, trivia contests were something that most of us watched rather than took part in. We tuned into game shows and shouted answers at the TV, with no prospect of recognition or reward for our general knowledge prowess.

Those days are behind us now. There are dozens of apps that let us participate in quizzes every single day, against other players, for real cash prizes. Skilli World is the latest to have caught our eye.

Set in a region of space where chunks of land are floating and, improbably, supporting human life in tropical resort-style settlements, Skilli World contains four main modes of play, three of which are available around the clock.

There’s the tutorial, which you can hop into whenever you like without restrictions, and there’s the 1v1 Friend Hut and the General Party Hut, which you can only play after you’ve linked your bank account to the app and made a deposit. More on that later.

Finally, there’s the main event, the Daily Mastermind Tournaments, which take place at the same time every day. These are often themed, so that one day you might be answering questions about Game of Thrones and the next you might be tested on your knowledge of South Park, or Friends.

For every themed quiz, more or less, there’s a general knowledge one too, so if you consider yourself an all-rounder you’ll have plenty of opportunities to strut your stuff. DMTs consist of up to 15 questions, and the answer to all of them is either True or False.

Skilli World’s distinguishing feature in the trivia genre is its unusual pay to play model. While most trivia games are free to play, but dangle lives in front of you as a way to monetize, Skilli World does things the other way around, letting you accumulate lives for free but charging you $5 to enter a DMT.

The Good

According to developer Under The Tree, Skilli World pays out more per player than its rivals. It would say that, of course, but it seems to have some supporting evidence.

For instance, during the app’s soft launch phase it was downloaded 4000 times, and its players managed to collectively win $30,000 - a highly respectable average. In total the app has given away $100,000 in prizes.

This is purportedly thanks to the restricted player numbers. While some of Skilli World’s major rivals might have a prize pot of $3000, there could be more than 100,000 players competing for it. By contrast, a maximum of 300 Skilli World players might compete for a prize pot of $1000.

On cost, too, Under The Tree claims that it represents better value than its rivals, since those games charge extortionate amounts for lives, or for in-game currency with which to buy lives. Of course, you don’t necessarily have to use those lives - you’ll just stand less of a chance of getting into the prizes if you don’t.

In any case, the variety of questions and the simple True/False format make Skilli World a fun trivia app, even if you stick to the prizeless and free tutorial mode.

The Bad

Whether or not you prefer Skilli World’s way of doing things will likely be a matter of personal preference. Under The Tree’s perfectly valid arguments about player-to-prize ratios will fail to convince you if you lay down a cool $5 and crash out after the first question. At least those other apps let you fail for free.

In that sense, Skilli App could do with more modes that don’t require you to enter your bank details and deposit cash up front. While we’ve got no reason to question the offer that Under The Tree is making, some players will be hard to convince, and it would be nice if the app contained more for those cautious souls.

Overall

Skilli World is a polished, accessible, innovative trivia app that gives you a genuine chance of winning some cash - as long as you’ve got the knowledge. Make use of the free introductory DMT to establish whether you’re in with a chance.

8.3

OVERALL

Replayability 9

Game Controls 8

Sound/Music 8.5

Gameplay 8.2

Graphics 7.9

FREE

Skilli World-Real Money Trivia

Under The Tree Ltd.

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