Mobile Apps
Unobtrusive sleep tracking app for Android
Sleep Debt Tracker is a simple Google Fit-compatible Android app that assumes you’re sleeping in the hours when you don’t use your phone at night.
Mobile Apps
Mobile Apps
How to get to the Microsoft Feed in your web browser
Get access to the Microsoft Hummingbird personalized news feed in your web browser (and outside the US.) No side-loaded apps required, just your web browser.
Android
Use Xiaomi Mi Band as a continuous heart rate monitor with Google Fit
How to sync your continuous heart rate monitoring data collected by the Xiaomi Mi Band 4 or 3 fitness tracker to the Google Fit app.
Android
Contour Diabetes app, Bluetooth, and why we can’t have nice things
The Contour Next glucose monitor and its companion app communicate with each other over Bluetooth. Well, they try to anyway.
Mobile Apps
Not getting much done with Microsoft To-Do
Microsoft To-Do app is slow and requires frequent reloading. It doesn’t sync with Outlook, Cortana, and other Microsoft task list apps.
Android
Replaced the default Google Now Launcher app to save my Nexus 5X
My Android device struggled with high-memory usage from the Google Now Launcher app. Moving to a different launcher app gave my phone a new lease on life.
Android
The fabulous USB Type-C Simulator app
An amazingly simple app lets you simulate the joyful experience of having a reversible USB Type-C cable. Maybe just upgrade your phone instead.
Note-taking
The not always Simplenote
Simplenote is a great note-taking service, but its apps has some serious issues with notes-syncing.
Android
KDE Connect: Making friends between Android and the Linux desktop
A smart app connects your Linux desktop and Android device. It lets them share files and clipboard contents with each other encrypted over your local network.
Linux
Help Mozilla build out its Location Service by taking a walk
Mozilla is building a free alternative to the big tech companies’ location services. But they need help gathering signaling data from your neighborhood.
Web Analytics
Apple News app getting its own User-Agent in iOS 10
Apple News app to stop pretending it’s the Safari browser. The new User-Agent makes it easier to measure success the App with existing web analytics solutions.
Android
Conversations: The best open-source XMPP client for Android
There are a number of XMPP clients available for Android, Conversations is the only one you’ll want to use. Excellent features and security.