app of the week

  • This Alarm App Makes You Take A (Good) Picture To Turn It Off

    This Alarm App Makes You Take A (Good) Picture To Turn It Off

    iOS, Android: I’m pretty sure Alarmy is evil, but perfect, because a good alarm clock should be two-parts irritating, one-part useful. You don’t want to hate your alarm clock whenever it wakes you up each morning, but a great alarm app shouldn’t be very easy to turn off (tempting you to you go back to…


  • Control Your External Display’s Settings From Your MacBook

    Control Your External Display’s Settings From Your MacBook

    Mac: Your Mac’s Night Shift and True Tone modes are great and all, but they can be fussy at times, and they might not work (or work very well) with an externally connected display. Separately, it’s also annoying to have to tap buttons and fumble through on-screen displays just to adjust your monitor’s brightness and…


  • Save Gmail Attachments To Your Dropbox With This Add-On 

    Save Gmail Attachments To Your Dropbox With This Add-On 

    All browsers: Google and Dropbox are now collaborating on a brand-new “Dropbox add-on for Gmail”, which will make it easy to share the contents of your Dropbox directly within Gmail. If you’re going the other way, it’s also a lot easier to dump files directly into your Dropbox, saving you the step of having to…