ION#5 - ??The Excel World Championship, ?? Instagram is stealing ideas again, and ?? Tim Cooked needs your help!
Do you want to know how much a video call with Tony Hawk costs, what the latest E-sport is, and see if you can design a better iPhone? Read on!
Let's kick this week off with a nice Tool section!
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???? Scribe
Jennifer Smith 's Scribe is such a powerful tool that can save you tons of work if you often help out others by explaining, training & answering “quick questions.” Scribe auto-generates step-by-step guides, complete with text and screenshots. your colleagues, customers, friends… grandparents will thank you! It sounds too good to be true, but it honestly works.
Reading Buddy simulates many scientific methodologies of speed reading such as Meta Guiding, and Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) to help you read faster with high comprehension.
?? Upword
Roee Barak just launched with Upwork on Producthunt. What a cool tool! The tool helps you to capture, summarize, and organize your most important knowledge - all in one, powerful app. Works like a charm, and you build your own digital knowledge bible.
Andrew Charlton wrote this script that allows you to input a?URL?and scrape the website data to quickly identify technical SEO issues.?
Interested to know what the best tech teams in the world have in their Tool Stacks? Check out Companies.tools. See which apps are used to research, design, code, support, gather feedback and market the products you use. Want to dig a bit deeper? Stackshare also looks into the tech stack and more!
What's happening in tech this week
Apple is expected to launch three new Apple Watch models and a refreshed pair of AirPods Pro earbuds along with its range of new iPhones. The launch event on September 7 will be a small in-person event that will be streamed online. It is rumoured that iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max will feature an upgraded A16 processing chip, an always-on display, a 48-megapixel rear camera with a larger sensor, and a camera cutout on the screen instead of a notch. More predictions for the event are available in the article.
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The shout-out app that lets users send their friends a birthday greeting directly from Rudy Giuliani is expanding to allow for extended, two-way chats. Generally, the more likely you are to want to talk to the person, the more expensive setting up a live call will be. (Lookin’ at you,?$750 Tony Hawk?meet-and-greet and?$2,000 Leslie David Baker?chat.) But, on a quick scan, most calls seem to run a $100-$400.?If you want to spend even less, you can always meet with Rico The Porcupine from ??.
As developed-world populations increasingly get older, healthcare is being rapidly digitized and “platformed” in order to meet the huge scale of change heading our way. Techcrunch recently?covered?how Cera in the U.K. just raised $320 million to shift monitoring of patients into the home rather than over-flowing hospitals. Now another startup aims to create an almost “gig-economy style” platform for people providing live-in care to the elderly, this time in Europe.
The unwritten rule of the internet is that “if there’s a new social media feature, Instagram will copy it.” In the latest example, the Meta-owned social network is testing a BeReal clone (BeReal is an Unfiltered App that claims to be the Anti-Instagram) feature that challenges people to post candid photos within two minutes.
?? Other noteworthy things happening on the internet
"We're excited to introduce the newest member of the iPhone family: the iPhone 404. This phone has everything you loved about the previous iPhones, but with some added features that are sure to make it your new favourite. For starters, we've added twin props for hands-free action selfies. Now you can take the perfect picture or video without having to worry about holding your phone steady. We've also added double camera clusters for capturing stunning 3d video as well as adding redundancy when your fat fingers get in the way of a lens."
?? Twitter thread of the week [in a Linkedin Mesagge]
There are so many sports around the world at the moment and they all bring atmosphere, thrills, spills, heartache, determination and adrenaline (in some way, shape or form). But what an exciting new adventure is Excel Esports. That’s right, a whole sport dedicated to ‘VLOOKUP’, ‘COUNTIF’, and ‘SUMIF’. We’ve officially peaked as a society.
That's it for this week's episode of the?In Other Newsletter.?As always, feel free to reply to the post or leave some feedback via PM if you want to chat about it.