The Internet giant Google yesterday refreshed its Assistant app for iPhone and iPad with support for Apple's new Siri Shortcuts feature which made its debut in iOS 12.
Google Assistant now supports Siri Shortcuts
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Review: Minimal Cal for iPhone brings focused, beautiful & clean calendar experience
Created by the app maker Rational Design, Minimal Cal is a new calendar app for iPhone which declutters the experience of managing your events and settings by incorporating great typography, minimal design and easy navigation. Can you calendar app do that?
Dockey review: a simple app to customize your Mac’s Dock
The Dock is an important part of your Mac. It holds the applications you use most often so that you can open them with a click. It can also contain those you currently have open, display badge icons for app notifications, and let you move things to the Trash easily.
So, configuring the Dock to your preference is a key piece to its effectiveness.
You can make some adjustments to the Dock in your System Preferences like location of the Dock, animations for minimizing windows, and changing the size of the icons.
But, if you would like to do just a little bit more with your Dock without having to toy with Terminal, then take a look at Dockey. Dockey is an application that lets you customize your Dock quickly and here’s what it has to offer.
5KPlayer brings multiscreen playback, DLNA, Internet radio & more to your Mac [sponsored]
5KPlayer by DearMob is a media player and streamer with over seven million downloads that solves all your audio and video problems. It's a mixture of a free HD video player that supports foreign video formats like MKV, a music player, a DLNA and AirPlay-enabled media streamer and a media downloader that makes multiscreen playback easier than ever.
Google Photos now lets you adjust bokeh blur and focal point of your Portrait mode shots
Some cool new features are coming to Google Photos for iOS, including Portrait mode bokeh editing and changing the focal point of the blur, as well as leaving the subject of your photograph in color whilst changing the background to black and white.
Instagram has finally begun cracking down on fake likes and follows
At long last, the photo-sharing service Instagram has announced that its algorithm will be deleting inauthentic likes and follows that those fitness trainers and life coaches you've been following have bought from specialized services.
Award-winning photo editor Darkroom launches iPad app in beta
Darkroom, a tremendously useful and popular iPhone photo editor featuring premium filters, batch processing, RAW and large image support and more, is coming to an iPad near you.
Instagram has finally started rolling out its own Screen Time-like Your Activity feature
While Facebook-owned Instagram back in August did confirm that it had been hard at work developing a brand-new activity dashboard feature that would show how much time you spent on the service, the promised rollout got delayed. Today, Instagram has finally started rolling out its own Screen Time-like feature, dubbed Your Activity.
monday.com may be the key to increasing your team’s productivity [sponsored]
There are plenty of team management tools out there, but enterprise software often has a learning curve that slows teams down rather than speeding things up. Oftentimes, assigned tasks and overall goals get divvied up among members without an accessible overview of the project as a whole, creating fractured communication and taking the “team” out of “team management.”
How to quickly save over 2 GB of storage space on your new iPhone or iPad
When you get that shiny new iPhone or iPad, you’re going to spend some time getting it just how you want it. One place you’ll likely begin is with the App Store. Whether it’s games or apps that tickle your fancy the most, you’re going to grab them. What comes with downloading the games and apps you want is enough space for them all.
So, why waste space on apps that you will never, ever use when you need it for those you want to use every day? Here’s how to quickly save over 2 GB of storage space on your new iPhone or iPad.
How to merge separate Safari windows into one on Mac
Learn how to merge all windows in Safari for Mac if you'd like to use tabbed browsing in a single window instead and instantly declutter your desktop.
ABC Five, Weather Up, Minimal Calendar, and other apps to check out this weekend
This week's edition of our Apps of the Week roundup features an app to help you learn new languages, a refreshed weather client and a sharp-looking calendar app. And as always, we've selected two great new games for you to check out.