Photo map: Make a memory map with travel photos.

"The world is so big, I want to see it." We often talk about this sentence, but how far have we come in this huge world? If you can't count it yourself, Photo Map can tell you the answer.

Photo map is a kind of "footprint" map, which will classify your photos according to their positioning information, and then fill in the corresponding map parts in the application. With the continuous expansion of your travel area, this footprint will become more and more exciting.

Unfortunately, Photo Map only has relatively detailed maps of North America, Canada and Australia, and other regions are basically based on countries. In other words, even if you have traveled all over the great rivers and mountains in China, you can only light up two maps of Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province Province, which is not enough to reflect the wonderful degree you see with your eyes.

You can download photo maps for free in the App Store, and in-house purchase can unlock the map plates outside the United States and remove the image watermark. The internal purchase price is 30 yuan.

Grow sturdily: Clear your mind and help you make better decisions.

Many people have had such an experience: an inspiration flashed in their minds, but they didn't act on it, which led to the inspiration being only put in their minds and even forgotten in the end. In order to solve this problem, foreign developers have developed Thrive App.

Creating a new task in traditional task management tools is very simple, but Thrive complicates this step: to create a goal in Thrive, you need to know what benefits this goal can bring to you, and you need to figure out the steps required to complete this goal and fill it in the App. Therefore, only after we have carefully thought out our goals can we put them into practice.

In order to ensure that the goals you set are well thought out and not impulsive, Thrive requires you to wait at least two minutes in the last step of adding goals to set the filled goals.

Thrive's decision-making function is also a highlight. Instead of randomly selecting an option for you like other similar applications, it will help you determine the weight of each option and generate a histogram, so that you can clearly see the weight distribution and total weight of each option. According to this histogram, you can make a better decision that suits you.

Thrive complicates the original simple steps such as creating goals and making decisions. The application itself can't tell you the optimal solution among multiple options, but in terms of "assistance", Thrive does a very good job: you can get a more comprehensive understanding through Thrive, whether it is the reason and purpose of doing each step or the example of the current step.

In my opinion, Thrive is more like an assistant than a tool. What it wants to do is not to solve problems for you, but to guide you to clear your mind and help you solve problems in a more appropriate way. For people who are new to the concept of task management, assistants like Thrive can help you start task management quickly and know which tasks should be placed in a higher priority position.

Thrive can be downloaded from the App Store, which is currently being promoted online at the price of 12 yuan, and does not support Chinese for the time being.

Lawnchair:2.0 beta online game app store

After a long but not "boring" Alpha test (internal test updates are extremely frequent), Lawnchair, a well-known third-party launcher for Android, finally ushered in the public beta version of 2.0 last week.

Entering version 2.0, Lawnchair follows Pixel Launcher in appearance style, which is still the best choice for customized ROM users to taste native Android. However, unlike the 1.0 era, which simply expanded on the basis of Pixel Launcher, Lawnchair added many unique and exclusive functions in 2.0.

For example, the desktop widget can be seen at a glance. In Pixel Launcher, only calendar, flight and traffic information can be displayed, while Lawnchair integrates some functions of this widget and notification center on the premise of keeping the same style. On Lawnchair's At A Glance widget, we can not only receive calendar, flight and traffic information as usual, but also play music, unread notifications and reminders, battery charge and discharge status and other information will be immediately displayed at the top of the main screen, which is more practical than Pixel Launcher.

Another example is the automatic grouping function of the application drawer. Some third-party initiators also have this function, but Lawnchair is not satisfied with the basic application grouping function. Based on the application classification information submitted by application developers when uploading applications to the Play App Store, Lawnchair provides a "smart tag" that can automatically group similar applications with one click. Therefore, when adding a grouping label to the application drawer, we only need to select the label color and name.

Of course, the above are just the tip of the iceberg of many functions that Lawnchchair added during the transition from 1.0 to 2.0, such as icon package adaptation, powerful search service integration, sesame integration, etc ... If you want to experience the brand-new Lawnchchair, you can go to the Play App Store to join the test project and install the beta.

Origin Adaptive: Icon Package with Perfect Arbitrary Shape

Many third-party initiators support the function of setting the global icon shape, but even on Lawnchair, which has powerful icon customization function, those applications that don't adapt to icons don't look perfect.

Therefore, an icon package supporting "adaptive" shape has gradually appeared in the Play App Store, and "origin adaptation" is one made by domestic developers.

As the name implies, the adaptive icon package can not only be directly applied by the launcher, but also can perfectly apply various shapes according to the settings in the process of setting different icon shapes by using the launcher—in other words, this icon package is more plastic than the traditional icon package and can be regarded as a customized icon package developed by the icon package maker for those applications without adaptive icon characteristics.

Origin's coverage of domestic applications is higher than that of several adaptive icon packages that appeared in foreign application stores before, and developers are also restrained in redrawing icon packages. In order to avoid the icon package falling into a single aesthetic direction, all the adaptive icons in Origin are basically based on the original icons of the application, which ensures sufficient recognition.

Origin can be downloaded for free in Cool 'an.

Desktop end

Mailbox 7: Full-featured dual-platform mail client

Postbox is a mail client that supports macOS and Windows, and supports practical functions such as shortcut keys and filters. In the latest release of the seventh generation version, Postbox also supports functions such as editing and third-party application extensions (Labs).

When writing emails, we often need to use repetitive content, such as signatures and social contact information. The "clip" function of mailbox 7 can save you the tedious steps of writing duplicate content. You only need to create the commonly used content as Clip in advance, and you can call it at will when you write any email in the future. Clips also supports inserting CSS code, which can achieve more desired email effects.

Even if you can't write CSS code, you can directly use official examples, including common lists, picture styles, social media information and so on.

As an excellent mail client, Postbox supports comprehensive filtering function. For example, I just want to see new emails from Apple, and I can set up a filter to meet this demand in a few simple steps. E-mail filters support filtering information such as email subject, sender and recipient, email content, etc., which can meet most of the needs of daily actual scenes.

E-mail can be downloaded for free in official website. The application supports macOS and Windows, but does not support Chinese for the time being.

Retrospection: The meeting does not miss important content, and Mac recording is a good helper.

Backtrack is a recording application that resides in the menu bar on macOS. The idea comes from the trouble that developers often forget to record after attending important meetings. Backtracking is also very simple to use. When you authorize the application to access the computer microphone, it will record the sound for the last 60 minutes continuously.

The design of backtracking is very interesting, and the interactive effect of the software is like dragging a yo-yo, which is convenient for us to save the recording file at a specified time. The interactive way of backtracking made me play for a long time. I didn't expect the interaction of the menu bar application to be so cool.

Of course, the topic related to recording is inevitably about privacy. Backtrack's files are stored locally on the computer, and will not be uploaded to other cloud services, so it is relatively safe in terms of data security. If you are interested in backtracking, you can download it for free in the Mac App Store.

PowerToys: Microsoft's shortcut key query and window management tool

PowerToys is a series of advanced system tool sets developed by Microsoft. It was first released in the Windows 95 era as the first advanced setting tool to refer to the start menu. It is a tool with a long history.

Compared with the tools that come with Windows system, PowerToys provides more practical gadgets, which can help more demanding users improve their efficiency. But now many gadgets have been integrated into the functions of Windows system. Therefore, PowerToys has not been updated since Windows Vista. The reasons are not difficult to see: On the one hand, the Windows operating system is becoming more and more mature, and many tools are integrated in the system; On the other hand, many tools can be realized by more powerful third-party software, and the premise of being a geek's plaything no longer exists.

However, PowerToys took advantage of Microsoft's "open source style" and recently released a new preview version supporting Windows 10. At present, the new PowerToys only have two functions: querying shortcut keys and managing desktop windows.

Press and hold the Windows key for more than one second, and you can quickly query all shortcut key operations in the current application with the Windows key as the trigger condition through PowerToys. The display mode is also intuitive, and some applications are similar to CheatSheet and Pretzel on macOS.

FancyZones is an enhanced window manager on Windows. Although in the early days of Windows 7, we can quickly lay out the application window by dragging it to the edge of the screen, FancyZones further extends this function, and we can quickly adjust the current window through the layout list provided by the application.

The window management function of PowerToys also supports the creation and saving of custom layouts. We can set the exclusive window layout according to our own usage habits, and at the same time we can adjust the display area through the sideline, which is very flexible.

You can download the latest version of PowerToys from the application's GitHub homepage.

Marta: It doesn't matter if you can't write songs. Let artificial intelligence technology help you compose intelligently.

With the popularity of Vlog and short videos, more and more people begin to show their life, work and hobbies in the form of videos. But many people ignore a very important issue when recording and editing videos: the copyright of video materials.

The most likely place to encounter copyright problems in video recording is the ubiquitous music in the video. Whether using a favorite song or finding a nice melody on the Internet as the background music of a video is strictly an act of infringing the copyright of an audio producer. If you have this problem, you can try MadDelta, which was created by a team led by scholar Li, focusing on artificial intelligence technology and automatically generating music.

The developer's positioning of MadDelta can be regarded as "the brain of music machine". The development team trained it to listen to different kinds of music with different styles, so that it can automatically generate four pieces of music automatically created by artificial intelligence technology according to the speed and style of music categories selected by users. Isn't it amazing?

In my experience, among the musical works created by MadDelta, the effect of electronic music is relatively the best. In other words, it may be because MadDelta pays more attention to modern music in machine learning, but the effect on piano music is relatively poor. The generated music has some "electronic taste" and is not up to standard. Of course, as MadDelta learns more about music works, I believe it will become more and more "smart".

You can learn more about MadDelta and use it in official website.

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