#productivity-apps

#productivity-apps

The most interesting story at this year's CES was just a little tiny bundle of technology. One way to look at Lego's new Smart Brick is as something like a Raspberry Pi, an endlessly remixable gizmo with infinite hacking potential - it can be anything, in the best possible way. Another way to look at it is as a crushing blow to creativity, a new way for things to break or be paywalled, and an affront to everything we love about Lego. Maybe it's both.

There's a lot of mystique around the CEO's morning routine; each business leader has their own habit to start the day off right, whether that's cold plunges or 5 a.m. runs before work. But many top executives start their days just like everyone else: shutting off their alarms and rolling over to check their phones. Even CEOs leading billion-dollar companies peruse through apps first thing in the morning.

If you want to block distractions across all of your devices at once, Freedom is a good option. You can choose which websites and apps to block for a specific period of time. So if you're working on your laptop and then try to open TikTok on your phone, you won't be able to - you'll instead see a green screen indicating the app is blocked.

Launched in August, the productivity tool lets you block yourself from distracting phone apps while encouraging you with the aid of a virtual friend - a little cartoon bean that likes to knit socks and scarves, which can later be exchanged for décor for the little bean's room. The premise behind the app is that users might be encouraged to manage their screen time better if they know their actions would impact others,

The browser would have more value if it included an on-device AI model that could run without requiring access to the internet, O'Donnell said. "This provides a channel through which they can get hundreds of millions of people to download their model," he said. In that scenario, the browser could access heavyweight AI models in the cloud to handle more demanding tasks.

A camera app that uses nano banana to make my mediocre iPhone photos look like they were taken on a Leica. A single-purpose AI agent that can take any frontend project and automatically add support for light mode, dark mode, and custom theming. It should be able to use vision to see the UI changes, and then iteratively make changes based on the rendered UI. Another single-purpose AI agent that can decompile and debug minified code into an interpretable codebase.

Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Plus comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, and Access, giving you more apps than the newest lifetime license.