Author: Milind Alvares

Here’s a fun app. Ever wanted to keep a record of your beer drinking activities? Yup. BeerStat allows you to add beers to your life counter in a deep and fulfilling manner. You get to add your favourite brands, add average costs to its variants, and specify quantities. This is a one time setup, as adding beers to your counter is a very quick process. You can then delve into detailed statistics of your beer drinking habits, and suggests interesting ways to burn off the excess calories. So what does it bring in terms of UI? The biggest thing of…

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This is an app I’ve been dying to mention, and finally I have an excuse to do so—Due is finally an iPad native app. In case you don’t know what Due is, check out Brandon’s review. It’s really a lifesaver and one of the most crucial apps on my iPad and iPhone. The iPad version doesn’t add anything in functionality, but I’d say the developer has been quite clever with its UI. One of the problems designers have with iPad apps is what to do with all the extra space? Due is designed to be a compact app, so changing…

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There’s no denying that the iPod app is a superb way to play music on your iPhone or iPod touch. There have been music apps with 3D covers and automatic timers, but at the end of the day I think most just fall back to using the default app. If there’s one thing that the iPod app can’t do, is display lyrics for songs that don’t have lyrics in their database. It’s 2010, with ubiquitous internet connectivity, and we still have to sync over lyrics. On Stage automatically fetches lyrics from online, and can look up artist and track info…

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Even when I first saw screenshots of the app, I felt pixel lust. Scratch that, even when I first heard about the app I knew I’d have to feature it; Aleksandar Vacić makes beautiful apps by default. Couch to 5k is a popular program for getting in shape, or something. It follows a pattern of running and walking, with an ultimate goal to get you to run 5 kilometres at a stretch, the specifics of which you had best learn elsewhere. Vacić’s app Go Couch to 5k takes all the aspects of learning this program and keeping track of your…

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Pillboxie is an app that helps you remember to take your medications. Add your pills, describing their shape and colour, and then schedule reminders throughout the day and further by days of the week. The user interface for scheduling your pills is not just cute, it’s functional. Just drag your pills into ‘pill boxes’ representing the hour. You can drag more than one pill, drag out pills; it’s crazy nice. Local notifications remind you when you need to pop one. Sure you can use your regular reminder app — you are using Due, aren’t you? — for the task, but this…

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I don’t usually post about fonts, but I’ve got a good feeling about this one. It’s totally free for use, and looks great as a title and body font. Kind of has that same freshness as the now overused Museo (yes, even Dell now uses it in their ads). Go get it.

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