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What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026?

This is wonderful! https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/ At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose...

Build an intelligent map of your personal and professional network in Saropa Contacts. Link contacts as colleagues or family, and see a relative's phone number appear directly on another’s profile. This gives you instant access to critical contact info in an emergency.

Summon your favorite wizards! The Harry Potter collection in Saropa Contacts lets you choose characters and import their details—pictures, birthdays, jobs & houses. It's your personal enchanted guide for your address book! 🧙 Accio, contacts!

Keep all your relationships dependable. Saropa Contacts' Intelligent Audit proactively scans your contacts, identifying issues like missing details, invalid entries, or duplicates. Its unified dashboard guides you to strengthen every connection.

Get ready for any scenario. Saropa Contacts now includes the Demo Companions Library, a private space to test emergency calls, messages, and privacy settings. Practice confidently and with all the app features without using any of your real contacts.

Never miss a key date for the people you admire. Saropa Contacts tracks birthdays and anniversaries for the scientists, musicians, and business leaders in your network. Get a rich, visual briefing so you're always ready to celebrate your heroes right on time.

Build your ultimate network of leaders, artists, and innovators in Saropa Contacts. Saropa turns your heroes—from business to the arts—into a smart, searchable guide, structured by their role and industry for instant context and influence.

Transform goals into achievements with daily support from your virtual mentor. The Coaches Hub has specialists for your exact needs—from mastering career skills to improving personal wellness. Receive structured advice to stay on track with a reliable, expert guide.

Want to be a more thoughtful? Our Country Events calendar shows you the major holidays, festivals, and observances for your colleagues and loved one's home countries. It's the perfect tool for finding a reason to reach out and share important moments.

A world atlas built around your address book. Explore every global capital and instantly see which of your contacts live there. It's an encyclopedia made personal, creating an intelligent guide for your global connections.

Explore how countries greet, dine, debate, and disagree. Learn what’s taboo, what’s sacred, and what’s good manners. From national colors to sensitive topics, World Explorer helps you navigate cultural nuance with clarity—before you message, meet, or misstep.

Map Explorer plots your contacts on a live map. Tap any marker to view names, addresses, and timestamps. Filter by region or category, or search to jump to a location. The map updates instantly as you zoom and pan.

When every hour counts, the World Clock List Screen becomes your global command center. Preview contact availability across time zones, simulate future schedules, and filter by country to coordinate without disruption.

Timezone Explorer organizes your contacts by region and offset. Filter by country, search by name, and review who’s active now — so you can plan across zones without guesswork.

Transform your address book into a gallery. Saropa's Avatar Designer uses a contact's name to generate a unique cartoon portrait, making them more recognizable at a glance.

Gain a new perspective on your contacts. Saropa automatically detects their Zodiac sign from their birthday, showing you personality keywords, ruling elements, and lucky colors for each of the 12 signs.

Gain deep cultural insights with Saropa. The app automatically finds a contact's Chinese Zodiac animal from their birth year, showing their characteristics, elements, and Yin/Yang balance for each person.

The age map automatically organizes contacts into useful Age Groups, from infants to older adults. This offers insight into different life stages, diverse needs, and generational perspectives. Track birthday milestones for your people and their family.

Uncover your most vital connections. The Contact Points dashboard intelligently ranks your relationships, assigning points for activity, and factoring in profile completeness.

Declutter your active network without losing critical connections. Create a secure archive, removing profiles from your main lists while keeping them fully searchable and accessible. Maintain a focused address book and complete control over every record.

Guard your most private connections. Saropa’s Biometric Lock creates an impenetrable shield around select contacts, requiring your verified face, fingerprint, or iris scan to reveal them.

Map the fabric of your network as we intelligently charts how everyone is connected with automatic, two-way links. See their role in your broader social and professional circles for a contextual overview of the people you know.

Map your network's digital footprint. Our Internet Hub organizes websites, social media, and payment links, providing rich previews for every URL. Using automatic checks and country identification, every online interaction is informed and secure.

Instantly pinpoint any contact's location. Saropa transforms your address book into an interactive map of home, office, and custom addresses with time zones. Find who you need, fast—for a planned meeting or an unexpected crisis.

Before you call an international contact, get an instant briefing on their country’s customs, from proper greetings and etiquette to sensitive topics to avoid. With local holidays and other insights, you’ll be prepared for any conversation.

In a crisis, clear instructions are critical. Search our library of expert-guided emergency plans for step-by-step advice on everything from earthquakes to power outages. Find the right plan for any situation, right when you need it most.

Feeling unwell? Describe your symptoms, even with typos, and our smart search will find the most likely medical conditions. It cross-references a library of trusted resources to guide you to the right information, right when you need it.

Turn your address book into a professional network map. Saropa intelligently scans job titles and company names to group your contacts by organization. See your entire team or client list at a glance in a clean, structured, and instantly searchable view.

Your family network, finally mapped. Group your relatives, in-laws, and their extended families all in one place. Our app is smart enough to link everyone by current or maiden names, giving you a complete, up-to-date view of your entire family tree.

Stop sorting contacts and start using them. Saropa automatically scans job titles and company names to group your contacts by industry. Need a legal opinion or a tech expert? Find the right person in seconds with smart, effortless organization.

Don't just intend to follow up—make it happen. Add any contact to a dedicated to-do list for your relationships. This focused space ensures important conversations never get dropped, helping you stay proactive and reliable with your network.

Stop hunting through menus. Instantly find a contact, change a setting, or navigate to any screen from one universal search bar. It's smart enough to understand typos, so you find exactly what you need on the first try.

In an emergency, doubt is dangerous. Link your account to a contact to verify your identity. This gives your network the confidence to act fast, ensuring the right help finds the right person, without question.

Your context aware daily briefing. See birthdays with the age they’re turning, anniversaries with the correct year, plus get daily public holiday alerts and a new emergency preparedness tip. Be thoughtful and prepared, automatically.

Ever wonder who you added last year, or when you last called a client? The timeline is your complete and searchable relationship memory. Instantly recall past interactions to make every follow-up smarter and more personal.

We started with birthdays, but soon in Saropa Contacts you’ll get perfect‑timing alerts for anniversaries, milestones, and custom dates. Each one‑tap easy. No scrambling—just being there when it counts most.

Missed birthdays? Not anymore. Saropa's Event Notification System sends reminders right when you can act—early to plan or later when you’re free. No stress, no guilt—just thoughtful nudges so you can show up for the moments that matter most.

From @apolsky_ux - nostalgia overload! www.tiktok.com/@apolsky_ux/... Lovely music too: soundcloud.com/danielmp3-mu...

Ari Kuschnir on Instagram: "🎙️🎥 AI can Talk! I spent 2 hours playing with Veo 3 @googledeepmind and it blew my mind now that it can do sound! This is all Generative AI text to video out of the box... ...

This is simply one of the most impressive things we've ever seen! https://www.instagram.com/arikuschnir/reel/DJ5Etoix0wS/

We're really excited about today's 3.32 upgrade - especially the dart analyzer changes! 🎉 @flutter.dev

Who could've guessed joining a make-believe Resistance against an Evil Empire would ever happen in real life?

We're designing a bar for the Families screen to show your largest family groups. Each segment will represent a top group, its width showing its size, and will include the group's icon and color. Tapping a segment will take you to that group's details. What's missing? 👇

1️⃣ We know Git history is gold for devs, but for product, QA, or clients, it IS a black box. This means devs constantly explain what's actually shipped, and folks still get different ideas about progress. All that manual reporting & re-explaining kills our time.

We're trying out varied icon colors linked to the scrfeen content they represent (like red for Marvel, green for Medical). The idea is this visual association might help you spot specific sections faster when scanning lists like Navigation History. What's missing? 👇

Here’s the "DC Universe" screen in development. Notice how the header image smoothly shrinks and fades as you scroll down? The description also expands over it when needed. We're building visual details like this to make browsing collections feel more fluid. Refining as we go. 👇

'Top Contacts' learns as you use it to show important people. It considers contact frequency (calls/messages), who is marked as favorite or emergency, family, friend and work relationships, groupings, location, hidden/locked status, and even Facebook friends. What's missing? 👇

We're designing a Chinese Zodiac tool. You'll pick a birthday (planned range 1930-2064), and we'll show the right animal sign instantly (e.g., May 1, 2025 = Snake). Learn about the rich history, and see curated insights like traits, meanings, and lucky colors. What's missing? 👇

Trying to make the calendar/event list a bit richer. Added these detailed tooltips (showing Aries here) for Zodiac transitions, giving more context right where you see the event. Hope it adds a little fun! Would you use this? 🤔

Tinkering with the Star Trek importer in Saropa again. Adding more character quotes (like Spock's wisdom!), organizing contacts better (like grouping the Captains) & experimenting with Stardate birthdays. Little details, hopefully fun for fans! What do you think?

Refined the character importer flow. Made a quick video adding Harry Potter – birthday reminders & info access are fully automatic within Saropa once imported. Trying to make this fun & seamless. See it in action. Thoughts? Thoughts?

Chatting with Google devs highlighted the need to quickly estimate project size. Built this script to counts LOC/files/KB, uses smart exclusions, groups by ext/dir & gives color output! ✨ gist.github.com/saropa/c63be...

Experimenting with character animation tools

We made a quick website usability update - dark mode support! (plus can now share directly to ). Check it out saropa.com (to avoid confusion, this is a constructed screenshot showing both display modes)