Advertisement blockers. Pop-up blockers. Social media blockers. Tracking blockers. Apple’s Hide My E-Mail. Apple’s Password Generator. Virtual Private Networks (VPN).
These are the best additional software apps to have and use.
Journal
On Contentment
Lately I’ve been playing ping-pong in my brain about changing platforms. I set myself up on a 14-day trial to host this site on another server and within 14 minutes decided it was too much of a struggle.
I’ve spent hours, months and years to get this site where I want it.
As a geek, however, I have the prerogative to change my mind at any time and without notice!
Love and Feel
I can never be all the people I want and
live all the lives I want. I can never train
myself in all the skills I want. And why
do I want? I want to live and feel all the
shades, tones and variations of mental
and physical experience possible in my
life.– Sylvia Plath
Public Phone
As opposed to griping about people on their phones, it may be best to make use of my own iPhone and discover some of those benefits. Some use cases that works for me:
Blog and write with the phone
I use iA Writer on all my devices to write these articles, then press send. From there it is automagically published to my websites.
Process Images
Reviewing my images on Apple devices with Apple Photos is so pleasurable that it reminds me of the analog photo contact sheets. For quick edits of images taken from the phone, to again, publishing them to my website(s.)
Voice Dictation
Forget Siri. I’ll occasionally use this tool for quick Notes or in the Reminders app. Bonus usage in iA Writer too. Writing and blogging by voice is almost 90% accurate so I need to talk slower and enunciate.
Reading
Apple Books or Libby
Reading digital books with these apps is a joy. What better way to spend your time when you are waiting in line in public?
Whose Rules?
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
Anton, No Country For Old Men
Squandered Time
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.”
Seneca