A Legendary Weather App Makes A Comeback

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 117, your guideline to nan champion and Verge-iest worldly successful nan world. (If you’re caller here, welcome, please nonstop Android tips, and besides you tin publication each nan aged editions astatine nan Installer homepage.)

This week, I’ve been reference about Eileen Gu and Ozempic and fancy market stores, trying retired nan beautiful Shiori bookmarking app, trying to temper my expectations for nan Scrubs reboot, continuing my trial of nan Pixel 10 Pro, building my dream to-do database app pinch Claude Code (it’s almost done!), enjoying nan beginnings of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, signaling nan adjacent play of Version History, watching each of The Earliest Show again aft it showed up connected my YouTube, and eating altogether excessively galore Garden Salsa Sun Chips.

I besides person for you nan first large telephone motorboat of nan year, a new-old upwind app, a measurement to possibly make your YouTube a small cheaper, a bunch of worldly to watch this weekend, and overmuch more. Missed you past week! Let’s get backmost astatine it.

(As always, nan champion portion of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you reference / watching / playing / listening to / turning up to 11 this week? Tell maine everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you cognize personification other who mightiness bask Installer, guardant it to them and show them to subscribe here.)

Acme Weather. Years aft it was acquired by Apple and went away, there’s still nary bully replacement for Dark Sky. (Though I have been beautiful happy pinch Hello Weather!) Super breathtaking to spot nan squad spell backmost retired connected their own, and I already for illustration what they’re up to pinch their caller iOS app. The multi-forecast worldly successful peculiar is conscionable fabulous.
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra. A relatively insignificant upgrade this year, but I deliberation nan built-in privateness show is simply a genuinely awesome caller spot of hardware. Terrible for me, an incorrigible snoop of different people’s phones, but astir apt a bully point for nine astatine large. And really cleverly implemented!
Resident Evil Requiem. I person really travel to emotion a crippled that scares me, because it keeps maine engaged for illustration fundamentally thing else. By each accounts, this crippled is each that and moreover more. I will beryllium playing alone, successful nan dark, terrified, arsenic we are meant to do.
Current. This is from past week, but it feels relevant: This is nan RSS app Terry Godier promised a mates of issues ago! It’s clean, it’s quiet, it feels practically meditative adjacent to astir RSS readers. It’s not precisely meant for my frenetic newsgathering usage case, but wow is it bully to use.
Wispr Flow for Android. The much I usage these cross-app, AI-powered dictation apps, nan much I bask talking alternatively of typing connected each my devices. There are a batch of bully apps connected iOS (including Monologue, which launched past week!), but Android is woefully underserved. This is simply a invited summation to nan options.
“The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew.” The title is… a lot, but this Veritasium video is really a really bully primer connected a batch of really important information things, and has 1 of nan astir delightful leader stories you’ll find.
Notion Custom Agents. Notion is doing a really bully occupation of bringing AI features to nan devices you’re already using, and I support proceeding bully things astir civilization agents. They cognize wherever your information is, they tin build almost anything, they’re wholly autonomous... vibe coding, but make it business.
“How Red Bull Built Its Empire.” I person ever wondered really an power portion institution managed to money each nan sports teams, stunts, and various shenanigans that Red Bull does. This is simply a fascinating history of a institution that is measurement much than a beverage company… but is really very overmuch a beverage company.
The New York Times Midi. Oh, what’s that? Another crossword to do each time alternatively of working, that won’t beryllium punishingly difficult half nan clip but besides will return much than 34 seconds to complete? Oh okay cool sounds awesome I will do it each time everlastingly thanks.
YouTube Premium Lite. This is mostly a PSA, because I didn’t cognize this tier moreover existed. But now that it includes video downloads and (most importantly) inheritance playback, Premium Lite is astir half nan value of Premium but has almost each of nan champion features. I mightiness request to downgrade.

Meredith Haggerty is 1 of those group you meet and you’re instantly like, Oh, you’re overmuch cooler than I am. The much I get to cognize Meredith, a new(ish) editor present astatine The Verge, nan much I recognize really correct my first presumption was. Meredith has written astir manner and civilization and brands and TV shows and besides precocious made a Pride and Prejudice joke that made maine laughter truthful difficult I spilled java each complete my keyboard. Technically, Meredith owes maine a keyboard.

I asked Meredith to stock her homescreen pinch us, some because I deliberation it’s a nosy measurement to get to cognize caller group present and because I want her to show maine astir cool things but I don’t want to conscionable perpetually badger her for TV recs. Here’s her homescreen, positive immoderate info connected nan apps she uses and why:

The phone: An iPhone 17. Until very recently, I was clinging to an iPhone 12 mini that I’d gotten arsenic a hand-me-down firm gift from a friend; it was truthful mini and bully and I had nan cleanable telephone case. (Ben Affleck smoking a cigaret successful a mask. A speech starter!) But nan artillery became glacial, moreover aft a mates of trips to nan Genius Bar, and I had to springiness it up.

The wallpaper: A screenshot of Roku City, autumn edition. I find Roku City very calming, truthful I decided to support it pinch me.

The apps: Spotify, Messages, Mail, Chrome.

I’m particularly limited connected Notes, and present you tin spot my 3 main categories of Note: things I request to do, things I request to buy, thoughts I astir apt would person tweeted a fewer years ago. I emotion that the MTA app will show maine erstwhile I should time off for nan train, but I almost ne'er cheque it earlier I time off my house. For nan weather, I really trust connected nan New York Metro Weather Instagram account; my fellow hates it erstwhile I show him what number nan vibes are.

To beryllium clear, this effort to simplify my homescreen hasn’t alleviated my time-wasting astatine all. Beyond this page, I person a loopy number of apps, mostly put into folders to support maine distant from them, which doesn’t work. I’m still ever scrolling to nan past page, to nan past folder, to nan past page of that past folder, truthful I tin play a mobile crippled I don’t bask called Drop nan Cat. There’s possibly thing worse successful my life than nan clasp that mobile games I don’t bask person connected me. I’m not moreover a feline person.

I besides asked Meredith to stock a fewer things she’s into correct now. Here’s what she sent back:

Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette. I’m appropriately ashamed of watching this show (I’m sorry, Schlossberg family!), but it’s a awesome operation of cool and dumb. One 2nd it makes smoking a cigaret successful 1994 while wearing Calvin Klein look for illustration nan apex of quality existence; nan next, Fake JFK Jr. is pointing to an character successful a heavy achromatic wig, saying, “Have you met my uncle Teddy?” We shouldn’t moreover talk astir nan segment wherever Jackie O dances to Camelot.
I precocious downloaded an app called Rodeo that mightiness really lick a phone-based problem for me. It parses nan deluge of recommendations from TikTok aliases Instagram, if you hap to beryllium connected nan “wealthy children airs pinch food” broadside of those apps. You screenshot nan clip, nonstop it to Rodeo, and it grabs nan applicable accusation and tin prevention it successful reasonably useful lists.
The library. This mightiness beryllium stolen valor from nan Meredith who had not yet downloaded Drop nan Cat, but a small complete a twelvemonth agone I moved person to nan room and person really been cashing successful connected really free those books are. Plus, nan Brooklyn Public Library app is truthful good, letting maine put things connected clasp whenever I hap to deliberation of them. I’m presently reference Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence, which I americium astir apt incorrectly not arsenic into arsenic her The Mighty Red, and we don’t person to talk astir really galore times I’ve renewed it because I’ve been playing telephone games instead.
Nirvanna nan Band nan Show nan Movie. I’d ne'er watched Viceland’s Nirvanna nan Band nan Show earlier I went to spot nan movie, and you presently cannot do truthful legally, truthful astir apt I still haven’t. I didn’t request it to bask nan movie, though, which is hilarious and saccharine and made maine spell “How did they do that???” truthful galore times.

Here’s what nan Installer organization is into this week. I want to cognize what you’re into correct now arsenic well! Email installer@theverge.com aliases connection maine connected Signal — @davidpierce.11 — pinch your recommendations for thing and everything, and we’ll characteristic immoderate of our favorites present each week. For moreover much awesome recommendations, cheque retired nan replies to this station connected Threads and this station connected Bluesky.

“Marathon (a caller extraction shooter crippled by Bungie) is having an unfastened play-test / demo this play truthful that’s what I’ll beryllium into for nan adjacent fewer days.” – Janego

“Really enjoying Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett (author of nan delightful Emily Wilde series). Feels for illustration a transverse betwixt Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Howl’s Moving Castle.” — Spencer

“Since 1Password person upped their value I’ve spent a fewer hours moving complete to Apple Passwords and Uplock. Was mostly okay, but it’s a shame you can’t transportation complete each your passkeys to Apple Passwords. Uplock having a life acquisition is simply a large plus.” — Matthew

“Been watching Demon Slayer this past month, and FINALLY watched nan Infinity Castle movie successful a theater, and, it’s truthful clear really these anime movies are wildly different (and spectacular!) successful tone, guidance and characterization from our existent harvest of Hollywood blockbusters.” — Anshuman

“I conscionable yesterday switched my family from my grandfathered free Google Apps scheme for our civilization domain email to Fastmail. Fastmail is backstage but supports manufacture modular IMAP and CalDAV protocols, truthful we tin usage nan built-in message apps connected our phones and computers.” — Mike

“I’ve been listening to Comedy Bang Bang! Still ace funny. Big Paul F. Tompkins fan.” — Mo

“Star Trek Voyager: Across nan Unknown. Despite nan occasionally sadistic RNG, it’s truthful nosy to beryllium capable to dive into my favourite Trek stories and tweak nan outcomes.” — Jono

“Reading nan first book successful nan On nan Calculation of Volume series. It’s a clip loop story, for illustration Groundhog Day but measurement much realistic and sorta sad but it’s awesome truthful far!” — Colin

“The news of nan YouTube app coming to nan Apple Vision Pro made maine re-watch nan only bully usage of 360 video I’ve seen: ‘How TV screens made watching movies worse,’ a afloat 3D-animated, 20-minute video effort astir really nan location releases of movies disagree from their theatrical cuts and why that matters, and really nan beingness size of TV screens makes an effect connected content. If you person a Vision Pro it’s worthy pulling retired conscionable for this video. After that, watch everything other that YouTuber (Noodle) has made.” — Nathan

This wintertime has been a disaster, wherever I unrecorded and galore different places. So overmuch snow, truthful galore snowfall days, truthful overmuch chaos. First of all, I dream you’ve each stayed safe and lukewarm and well! Second of all, location is 1 spot of bully news successful each this: Casey Neistat is out successful New York City vlogging again. All these years later, cipher YouTubes rather for illustration Casey YouTubes. Between this and nan return of Paul Ford’s blog, it almost feels for illustration nan bully net is coming back. Here’s hoping.

See you adjacent week!

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