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This month’s app-review column features a couple apps for helping you pick a great bottle of wine — and the video features my fiance, Clare. Thanks to Bridget and Zach and Whole Foods, and again great work on the production by Steve Serio and Peter Holderness.

I love the alarm clock app Rise, which I reviewed in January. Here’s a link to the column; the video, from the superstar duo of Steve Serio and Peter Holderness, is above.

My two most recent “Innovators” profiles for Crain’s are very different: the musician Andrew Bird and Ross Shelleman, who runs Target Data, a moving-data company.

Yet here they are, linked forever: Andrew Bird | Ross Shelleman

Here’s my review of two shopping apps, Smoopa and ShopSavvy. The video is one of my favorites, thanks to Steve Serio on camera and Peter Holderness’ great editing.

Here’s my November app-review column, featuring a couple of organizer apps, Cue and Any.Do. It’s a watershed moment of sorts . . . shot just two days after I made the move to an iPhone 5.

Here’s a link to my review of transportation apps, following the disastrous launch of Apple Maps. Also check out the video above, featuring Waze and SpotHero, which features the fine videographic craftsmanship of Steve Serio and Jeff Hartvigsen.

Here’s a link to my review of the communication apps Sidecar, Voxer and Sounder. The accompanying video includes my friend Naphtali Marshall, the incomparably talented guitar player and graphic designer.

Here’s a link to my article reviewing various sports apps that help you keep up with your favorite teams. I feature NFL Rewind and MLB At-Bat in the accompanying video segment.

Here’s a link to my Q&A with Bryan Johnson, founder and chairman of Chicago online payments company Braintree, shortly after Braintree acquired mobile payments company Venmo.

SpotHero received funding from Dave McClure’s Bay Area-based 500 Startups in August, while SpotHero was taking part in the Chicago accelerator program Excelerate Labs. I got to break the news; here’s the link.