ChatGPT search is here – and AI search engines are improving

Hello friends! Welcome to Installer No. 59, your guide to better things and Edge-the most thing in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, you’re so excited to have found us, and you can also read all the back issues on the site Installer home page.)

This week I read about HotWired And DRAM And Mike SolanaI’m watching Diplomatjamming Dua Lipa Concert Tiny Desktrying crushing to read news and find interesting things, check download bandwidth limits Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and listening to all six hours Acquired Meta episode.

I also have some exciting new AI search products for you, new Apple hardware, a couple of documentaries to watch this weekend, a calendar app for Windows, and more.

Oh, and thanks to everyone who reached out about acquisition of “Omnivore”. This sucks. I’ve heard from a lot of people that they’re wondering where to go next, and since I feel partially responsible for some of you getting into an app that’s now dying, I’ll help you figure it out! But I need help: what about Omnivore or any other reading app, you are 100 percent need? Tell me what you want and I’ll see if I can point us all in the right direction.

Okay, a lot to do this week. Let’s go.

(as always the best part Installer these are your ideas and advice. What do you want to know more about? What cool tricks do you know that everyone else should know? Which app should everyone use? Tell me everything: [email protected]. And if you know anyone else who might like Installerforward this to them and ask them to subscribe here.)

• ChatGPT search. It’s not called SearchGPT, which sucks, but it’s what we expected: live web search built into an OpenAI chatbot. So far it’s very similar to Perplexity, Bing and the rest, but I suspect a lot of people will use it just because it right there in GPT Chat.
• Ask Cards. This is the type of AI search I’m most optimistic about: Google is pointing Gemini to the Maps app to make it easier for you to find things to do and places to go. If AI can save me from having to comb through a million reviews looking for the word “suitable for kids”, all this crap might be worth it.
• Science Fiction for Windows. I keep most of my calendar in one of two apps: Fantastical or Calendar of concepts. Notion Calendar is free and faster, but Fantastical is much prettier and more user-friendly. many more powerful. The new Windows app has all the features, design and looks great.
• New Mac Mini. There are reasons to be worried new MacBook Pro which was launched this week, and I think even super colorful iMacbut for me, the smaller, faster Mini is the most interesting computer Apple has released this year. This thing will be my daily driver from the moment it ships.
• New Magic Keyboard. Two things, both true: $149 is too much for this keyboard (much less than $199 for black using the numeric keypad), and if you’re using a Mac keyboard with built-in Touch ID, there’s no going back. And finally, no Lightning cable required! What a world!
• Dragon Age: Guardian of the Veil. Our friends in Polygon described this game It’s basically the game about the main character “and their traveling Deep Roadshow of trauma-soaked weirdos (free)” that I love so much. This game seems to take a while to get going, but once it does, it is extremely rewarding.
• uncanny valley. New podcast from Wiredorganized by a group of people we like (and a couple of exes Edge employees!) talk about all the news and chaos happening in Silicon Valley. Surprisingly a lot of hoodie talk in the first episode! But I can’t wait to see where it goes.
• Endurance. If you haven’t read book this new series is based on British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s disastrous attempt to swim to the South Pole – do it this weekend. I’m serious. This is a timer for all times. And I have heard only good things about this doctor.
• Nintendo Music. For years I enjoyed writing while listening to Pirates of the Caribbean a soundtrack that made everything a little more epic. From now on, however, I’ve been listening to the Boss Battles playlist in its entirety on this exciting new streaming app.
• Music by John Williams. Turns out it’s a big week for soundtracks! John Williams is a legend, and it looks like Disney has an amazing roster of other legends to talk about how important and special he was to the movie business. I’ve been excited about this ever since Jaws came out. in the trailer.
• Pocket TCG Pokemon. To be honest, Pokemon card games have never been my bag, but a game like this makes sense as a mobile app that can be played for a few minutes at a time. Or several hours. Or days. Whatever works.

A few weeks ago I went to New York and wandered into a coffee shop called Coffee Check. It was founded by a guy named David Cohen, whose face you may recognize TheUnlockr YouTube channel. Earlier this year, after more than a decade as a creator, he decided to open a coffee shop. And at the same time continue to be a creator. Somehow.

I spent an hour with David talking about all this, which turned into really funny episode Vergecast. But I left David still wondering how he managed to balance it all—and wondering what I could tell about his priorities from his home screen. So I asked him to share!

Here’s David’s desktop, along with some information about the apps he uses and why:

Telephone: Pixel 9 Pro. I always switch completely to the phone I’m making a video about, and since I’m so behind on reviews (see. Vergecast more on that), this is the next episode on the list.

Wallpaper: The one that comes on the phone by default. I change phones so often that I usually don’t change my wallpaper unless it’s disgusting. In that case, I’ll still take something minimalist from Google Wallpaper app (maybe a landscape to remind me what the outside looks like).

Applications: Spotify, Phone, Gmail, Chrome.

I usually have a multi-clock widget as it automatically shows me my current time and the time in New York, which I find incredibly useful when I travel a lot. Otherwise the tools section has Conceptwhich I actively use after Evernote became worse and worse over time – it replaced it along with Airtable.

This folder has recently expanded due to the coffee shop I now have. Base for planning the work of my baristas, Poplin for us to pick up and deliver our cleaning rags, Shopify for inventory/POS/sales/obsessive data analysis, Ring for all the cameras in the room and make sure the milk is delivered on time in the middle of the night (we use a service called Odekowho has the key and brings us supplies/puts milk in the refrigerators for us), and Pierspace to ensure that I can respond to inquiries about renting a utility room.

I also asked David to share a few things he’s currently into. This is what he sent back:

• Perhaps this is not surprising, but coffee. Specifically, I’m going to start frying in a cafe soon, and so I’m looking forward to finding beans from different places, learning how to roast those beans better, and tweaking the roast to get different flavors out of them.
• I also want to take more classes and attend more coffee events to try to learn more about the world of coffee and what people in the world are also experimenting with. And ultimately figure out how to balance these two worlds of coffee and YouTube, but, you know, first things first.

That’s it Installer community this week. I also want to know what you are doing now! E-mail [email protected] or message me on Signal – @davidpierce.11 ​​- with your recommendations for anything and everything, and we’ll post some of our favorites here every week. Additional recommendations can be found in the answers to this post is on topic.

“I saw what you had Coffee golf on the iPad Mini home screen. He has an IAP and that’s really normal. You better try Golf on Mars. This is a slightly more polished version Playing golf in the desert from the same developer. The best game of fast golf in the world.” – Casey

“The story of Arc closing in favor of a new browser pushed me to look for a new home. I saw a comment on Edge story that mentions Zen Browserpresenting it as Arc, but built on top of Firefox. I tried it and I love it!” – Volume

“I was playing around with different web browsers again. It all came down to Brave And Vivaldi For some time I wanted to try myself as a daily driver, but settled on Vivaldi. I love it. It’s much faster than the last time I tried it, plus it has the benefits of Chrome extensions and tons of customization while maintaining privacy. I think I’ve found my new web browser.” — Josh

“I mailbox I’m a movie logging junkie and this week I found a really good TV logging app! It’s called Marathon. The app design is great.” — Garrett

“I started playing Ether II’s Rivalsa new indie platformer similar to Super Smash Brothers.and it’s *so* fun. It’s a steep learning curve, but it’s worth it.” – Anuj

“Love the new season Reduction on Apple TV Plus. I don’t get emotional often, but this is killing me (and me. Not sure I want to see where the father/son storyline goes). High recommendation.” – Matthew

“Reloading Raindrop after the death of the Omnivore. Luckily, I saved my configuration for the Obsidian plugin, so the switch was easy.” – Taynan

“I caught as many World Series games as I could, but Apple Sports The live activity was great for tracking when I couldn’t watch it.” – Justin

“I read Red Sunrise row because of one of my colleagues. The way you dive into the characters and how each book builds on the previous ones has become one of my favorite series that I can’t recommend enough.” – Travis

Tuesday is election day! Wild, important, fascinating, frightening, causing me a lot of feelings. But what I’m definitely loving about election season is the fresh slate of reporting on some of the weirder and more irritating features of the American political process. Do you hate all political texts? Wall Street Journal has funny investigation about how they work Washington Post has good tricks on how to disable themAnd our friends in Vox made a great podcast about how they became such a scourge. Elsewhere Cleo Abram made a great video about why you can’t vote online, and this question keeps coming up.

Oh, and if not, you really should read it. Edgeguide to this year’s elections. Especially OK.