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Today: an app that plays back the year a song belonged to, a way to lift the color off a film still and put it on your own footage, and a Mac that does the thing when you hold a key and ask.

Thursday, Oct 15
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Today: an app that plays back the year a song belonged to, a way to lift the color off a film still and put it on your own footage, and a Mac that does the thing when you hold a key and ask.
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Nostaliga plays a song and shows you the life you were living the last time you had it on repeat. It reads your listening history and brings back the photos, the places and the rides from those weeks, pulling from Apple Music, Last.fm, Photos, Health, Strava and Calendar. Dinakar says every time he hears 1-800-273-8255 he is back in 2017, his first year of cycling, doing long rides with it on. That song is named after the old US suicide prevention number, and researchers counted almost 10,000 extra calls to the line across the 34 days it was most talked about. |
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A lot of the manual work in getting a document signed happens around the signature itself: preparing the document, placing fields, and chasing signatures. Dropbox Sign helps reduce that effort. Start from the templates you use most, send the signature request, and Dropbox Sign automatically reminds anyone who hasn't signed and tracks each agreement's status for you. No envelope caps or overage fees, so teams can plan costs with confidence. (sponsored) |
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CinemaLut takes the color out of a film still and puts it on your footage. Drop in the frame you like, a movie screenshot or a photo, and it measures what is actually going on in the grade: the tone curve, the tints sitting in the shadows, the midtones and the highlights, how saturated each band is. Then you drop in your own shot, log or Rec.709 from any camera, and it builds the LUT from that measurement. It runs in the browser, and there are 60 looks in there already as .cube files for Resolve, Premiere, Final Cut and CapCut. Dil got tired of the gap between seeing a grade he loved and getting anywhere near it himself. |
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Atticus is a Mac assistant you hold a key to talk to. Control-Option-Space, say open Spotify and play lo-fi, or find me a desk lamp on Amazon and put it in the cart, then let go. It reads what is on your screen, so it will also answer a question about the PDF you have open or draft a reply to the email. Opening an app never goes near a model and lands in under a tenth of a second, and anything that does runs on the Claude plan you already pay for. Ask for the same thing twice and it saves a shortcut, which roughly halves the time. It asks before it buys, sends or deletes anything, and it is free and open source. |