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Short pieces about Culi’s apps and the everyday problems they’re built for. New ones go up a few times a week.

How to Check If Your Squat Is Actually Good
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How to Check If Your Squat Is Actually Good

A squat is good here only as a placement against judged meets, and that percentile will read lower than you expect because everyone in the data chose to compete.

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What Kindred Records in a 30-Day Dose History
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What Kindred Records in a 30-Day Dose History

Kindred keeps a 30-day dose history: taken, taken late, skipped, or not logged. It organizes and reminds. It does not give dosing advice.

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How to Save a Developed Rolla Roll
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How to Save a Developed Rolla Roll

After a Rolla roll is developed, save it in HD, share it to Instagram, or print it at home. Version 1.2.0 can send every frame to Photos.

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Set Up Reset Tonight: A Five-Minute Wind-Down Checklist
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Set Up Reset Tonight: A Five-Minute Wind-Down Checklist

A step-by-step checklist for setting up Reset and running your first nightly wind-down, start to finish, in about five minutes.

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6 Ways to Get More Out of Benchmark Than a Single Check
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6 Ways to Get More Out of Benchmark Than a Single Check

Benchmark answers whether a lift is good in one tap. These six habits turn that single number into something you actually learn from over months.

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Your bump time-lapse does not have to stop when the baby arrives
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Your bump time-lapse does not have to stop when the baby arrives

Little Lapse can keep going after birth: add a birth date, take one photo a month through the first year, and keep it in the same keepsake.

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A Bedtime Routine Chart Your Child Can Run Without You Narrating It
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A Bedtime Routine Chart Your Child Can Run Without You Narrating It

A bedtime routine your child runs from pictures: set it once, repeat the nights you choose, one step on screen. Finishing earns a star. Nothing turns red.

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Spreadsheet, Calendar, or Tracker: What Actually Stops Late Fees
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Spreadsheet, Calendar, or Tracker: What Actually Stops Late Fees

Memory, spreadsheets, calendar reminders, and all-in-one budgeting apps all try to solve the same problem. Here's where each one breaks down, and where a focused bill tracker actually wins.

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How Bona Fide Turns Years of Photos Into One Visa Packet
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How Bona Fide Turns Years of Photos Into One Visa Packet

Bona Fide reads the dates and places already sitting in your photos and chats, then turns them into a labelled, indexed PDF built for USCIS, Appendix FM or IRCC filings — entirely on your iPhone.

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How photos and WhatsApp messages become one dated, labelled PDF packet
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How photos and WhatsApp messages become one dated, labelled PDF packet

The photos and the chat are already on the phone. Bona Fide puts them into one dated, labelled packet. You can read it before you export. The app does not file it.

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Two People, One Phone: How to Guess a 4-Digit Code Without Peeking
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Two People, One Phone: How to Guess a 4-Digit Code Without Peeking

Two people, one phone, two secret codes. Don't Peek covers the handoff so the other person cannot see the code, and only a digit in the exact spot locks in.

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How to Split a Restaurant Bill Equally on iPhone (Full Table or One Shared Dish)
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How to Split a Restaurant Bill Equally on iPhone (Full Table or One Shared Dish)

Use an even split when the table ordered the same kind of meal, or when you are only splitting one shared dish. Assign the lines when the orders were not close.

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