- Hey guys, it's Justine, (playful piano music)
and today we're going to be talking about
my top apps of 2021.
So obviously there's the usual suspects
like the YouTube, the Twitter, the Instagram, the Tik-Tok,
but there are a lot of very random apps that I've been
really enjoying that I've been using a lot of this year.
So first, we're going to get into it,
and one of those apps is actually the sponsor
for this video.
A huge thank you to LifeAR for sponsoring this video,
and I was so excited when they reached out about this app
because it's actually really, really cool.
So it's an app that enables anyone to help others
with any problem at any time from anywhere.
It's one of the first mobile AR apps that pairs
video conferencing with real time,
augmented reality capabilities.
It's kind of like FaceTime with this added element for AR
that lets you interact with the environment.
And not only just interact with the environment on your end,
whoever is on the other end will actually be seeing
that augmented reality experience right from their phone.
So we're going to call Jenna. Hi!
- Hi. - Watch this.
- Okay.
- So what's so cool about this is if I was filming and
I was trying to show you something, right here.
(gasps) - A circle!
- Yeah, that's my camera. I could do a heart.
- It's cool! - I know.
Two screens right here, and I can move it around.
- It stays there. - Yeah.
'Cause it's all AR. Camera is here.
- 'Cause I see the camera now, makes sense.
You could show me what you want to put,
like some art on the wall. How?
- Are you saying you don't like my art?
(laughs)
I'm like, wait, are you writing?
- I can draw - What is that?
- I personally, okay, so go back to the wall.
- Okay.
(gasps) - Sweetheart, Jenna.
- I don't know if I want your name on my wall though.
This is so awesome. I feel like this would be so cool
for our parents, doing tech support or something.
I'm very excited about this.
- Thanks a lot, well, I'll see you later.
- Ya, bye!
All right, so some other apps that I've been using,
this one is very interesting.
This one, I actually do plan on making a full video about,
but it's called Helium.
Some of you who are in the cryptocurrency world
may be very familiar with Helium, but what it is,
there's these devices that are Helium Miners,
and it's basically a little device that connects to your
internet connection at home, your router,
so that's providing internet connection
to your Helium Router, which then is connected to all
of their Helium Routers all around the world.
So this is basically creating an open wifi network
for internet of things to connect to these devices.
So it's interesting because it's giving internet access
to devices that may never have been able
to have internet before, like dog callers, scooters,
they even have these rat traps
that need internet connection, and by using these miners,
you get rewarded in Helium tokens.
And those tokens can then be cashed out for cash.
And it's very hard to explain in under two minutes.
Another app that I've been using quite a lot,
is called Mileo. And Mileo is really amazing because
it is a really cool photo organizing feature.
And what's great about it is it doesn't store
your photos on the cloud,
you're able to sync all of your photos
across multiple devices, Android, Mac, PC, iPads,
whatever it is that this app with run-on,
you're able to sync all of those photos.
And it's really great because I've been using it a lot for
keeping all of my thumbnails and my social photos organized.
So no matter where I am or what device I'm on,
I have everything here.
It has photo tagging, you can do various albums.
So here I have a bunch of thumbnails that are all
stored in here. You can sort things by folders,
so I have a lot of my Android photos from
various Android phones that just auto connect to here.
It's super cool.
Another app that had been using a lot of is
the DJI Virtual Flight. I had made a video previously
talking about the FPV drone that DJI came out with.
So what's cool about this app is it allows you to
virtually simulate what it's like doing an FPV flight.
And why this is cool is flying FPV is very challenging,
but you're able to connect this to the DGI headset
and then you're able to use the controller
so it will actually feel like you're out flying.
When I was flying a lot, a few months ago,
I would do this every night before bed, just to practice and
try to get better.
Another app that I've been using a lot of is Telegram.
And what I've been using Telegram a lot for is
I was doing a video where I spent a week
with my OnePlus nine phone. It was so fun because
I had set a limit for myself,
that that was the only device that I was going to use
for a week and it actually turned into two weeks,
'cause I got so comfortable using it
that I just was kind of going about my ways.
So I was able to send high quality photos and videos,
right from my computer to Telegram that then were sent
to my OnePlus film because I was connected on Telegram.
And it was so cool because it was so seamless,
and I did not feel hindered at all. And like I said,
all of the usual suspects, Instagram,
I also use the Threads app instead of hopping into
Instagram just to send people a message.
This is just basically your Instagram DM's,
it's kind of like a little inbox. We've got YouTube,
we got the YouTube Studio, of course Tik-Tok, Spotify,
and then Twitter.
This is something that's also kind of interesting,
this is called CubeStation.
And I don't have it hooked up right now but,
this is the cube station!
I got into...
cubing over the pandemic,
and it was strange because, this all came about
because I hit myself in the head with my phone,
and I thought that I gave myself a concussion.
(playing with bracelet)
And when I was reading, how do you tell
if you have a concussion, my results,
determined by not going to a doctor
but by Googling that I had a mild concussion.
The one thing that it suggested that if you
do have a concussion that you should do brain games
and I was like, well, what am I going to do?
I've always wanted to learn to solve a Rubik's cube.
So then I made that my pandemic challenge
to be able to solve one. And then I thought, okay,
I'm getting pretty decent at this algorithm
that I have managed to learn so I'm able
to solve the cube almost under two minutes now,
which I think is pretty good.
I was getting concerned that I wasn't actually scrambling
the cube good enough. So I was looking up
for cube scramblers and then I found this thing.
It's so cool because,
once you have it linked up to Bluetooth on your phone,
you're able to not only scramble the cube,
but it connects to it so every move that you do
is tracked on the phone. And if you end up stuck
and you can't solve it, this will solve it for you.
I know.
(drinks coffee)
Did anybody just see that I spilled coffee on myself?
Did you see that? Yeah.
(cleaning table) (coffee mug clatters)
So anyway, my new pandemic hobby, it's been so much fun
and honestly I want to get better at it,
and this has kind of helped me because it's given me more
challenging solves because I'm not the one that is
physically scrambling the cube.
So it's pretty cool.
Another app that I've actually been using quite a lot during
the whole GameStop and AMC trading fiasco,
I downloaded Public which is a social trading app.
Now, I'm not giving you any investment advice
with Helium or with Public, but it's really cool to kind of
jump into investing but have this social
kind of conversation around it to make it a little bit more
easy to understand. So I've really been enjoying kind of
getting into stock investing. Now I do have someone
that does manage actual investments, but this is really fun
because it's something that I can do right in my phone,
doing small trades and being able to get feedback
on the things that I'm doing.
And sometimes I don't really want the feedback,
but you get it regardless.
So it's like you have this whole social feed
of people talking about various stocks, what they've sold,
and it's really fun! If you guys want to
be my friend on there, I'll put a link in the description.
Another app that has just, really kind of
took over a lot of my time recently,
since I was back visiting my family the flight that I took
didn't have wifi. And one of the things that's cool
about Apple Arcade is a lot of their apps,
you don't have to have internet connection to play.
So I had downloaded this game called Story Time,
I was testing it out whenever they launched
a bunch of new games.
So it's called Simon's Cat Story Time.
I played this game, it was just kind of passing the time
on this overnight flight, not having very much fun at all.
And then I played this game and now I have played it
I think over 30 hours over the last month, which is,
I mean, I guess it averages an hour a day, which is fine.
But I'm on level 258, I have been building out
my little garden area here. It's cool because it's
like a little, like comic book story
that's kind of going through and super interactive.
And the type of game that it is
that is sort of tying it all together,
are these little matching games.
And these types of games to me,
(playing game) are so addictive!
Mm, so fun.
Another random app that I've been using is,
it's for my grill, I just got a Traeger grill,
and this app will connect to your grill,
it'll send recipes to it so that you'll be able
to monitor the time that you need to cook.
And it also give you the recipes on here so you can
kind of prep everything and then toss it in the grill.
I know, crazy! It's so funny to think of how different
my app usage is kind of from year to year,
a lot of these things I've never grilled in my life.
And now this is a very common app that I've been using
and a lot of these recipes, you could actually,
you can make them, even if you don't have the grill,
but obviously it is set to connect to the grill to be able
to give you the precise times to cook the right temperatures
and whatever. But there's cookie recipes on here,
it's pretty freaking awesome.
Another app that I use a lot is called LumaFusion.
It's a mobile editing platform that is available on iPad
and on your iPhone and it makes editing,
like high quality videos, very, very easy.
It also supports HDR, you can do 4k content
and they are coming out with a multicam editor in
I'm not sure exactly when the release date is,
but very excited about that! I have a demo
that I did in my iPad review video,
so I got a chance to check that out and I'm so,
so excited for it. So yeah, if you're looking for
mobile editing solutions, definitely check out LumaFusion.
I would love to hear from you guys,
if there's any unique apps that you've been using
that you think that I might enjoy,
feel free to leave them in the comments below
or send me a tweet. I do spend a lot of time on Twitter
so that's probably a good way to reach me.
Thank you guys for watching, I will see you
in my next video.
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