Author: Akshay Pathare

Sleeve is a beautifully crafted app for macOS that displays your currently playing track as a tiny widget on your Desktop. Made by Hector Simpson* and Alasdair Monk from Replay, it works with Apple Music or Spotify and comfortably lives on your desktop without getting in your way. We’ve only been playing around with it for a day, but can confidently say that Sleeve is the ultimate example of a really polished and delightful app. Sleeve shows the album artwork, track name, artist name, and album name on the Desktop. It’s not an interactive widget, so you can’t control playback…

GitHub Codespaces GitHub has just announced a massive new feature during the GitHub Satellite that is sure to catch the attention of all kinds of developers around the world. The company has announced the availability of GitHub Codespaces in public beta, a complete dev environment that works entirely on the GitHub.com website. Developers can instantly get the full Visual Studio Code experience right in their browsers, launched from any repository they want to work on. Devs can code, build, test, debug, and event deploy using GitHub Codespaces. It’ll be free during beta, and pricing will be announced at a later…

NetNewsWire, the once quintessential RSS reader app for Mac, is back on the market. Released by Brent Simmons and friends as NetNewsWire 5.0, it is an Open Source app that’s available for Free for anyone to download. NetNewsWire has a long history behind it. Back in the day, it was the most popular RSS app available for Mac, and for many Mac users, it was the app that they began their RSS journey with. It was acquired by NewsGator, who also launched an iOS version along the way, then by the folks at Black Pixel who ultimately decided to shut…

Icons have become an important & integral part of any design workflow today. Icons are basically everywhere and if you’re working with web design, UI design for apps, or even presentations and marketing material, you will be involved with icons in some form or the other. Sites like IconFinder and FontAwesome have grown tremendously in recent times and there are several amazing and incredibly well-designed icon sets available today. But there are few that stand out from the rest, and one such icon set is Streamline. Streamline Icons is a project by Vincent Le Moign, who is also behind the…

Text Case is a really simple utility app for iPhone that allows you to convert any string of text into various formats. Created by Chris Hannah, Text Case can simultaneously convert text into 24 different formats, all on the same screen. The premise of this app sounds simple at first, but it’s only when you actually use it that you realize how nifty it really is. Multiple Text Formats The 24 different text formats available in Text Case are presented to you in groups, so it’s easy to find the exact one you want. You can choose from four different…

If you have been on the lookout for a quick and easy way to generate beautiful CSS gradients for your websites or projects, look no further than https://cssgradient.io. A project by Moe Amaya, the website allows you to create your own custom gradients exactly the way you want and automatically generates the corresponding CSS code for it. The beauty of this website is how easy and interactive it is. You are presented with a big preview of the gradient at the top, with all configurable options below it. You can tweak the colors using simple sliders, or tweak the HEX…