Author: Akshay Pathare

TeeVee 3 — TV Show Tracker TeeVee 3 — a popular TV show tracking app for iPhone and iPad is currently available for Free on the App Store for a limited time. I haven’t used the app in a while now since the app has been suffering from a few bugs in recent times, but the developer has released some bug fixes in the last couple of days that address some crashes and bugs. Get TeeVee 3 for Free on the App Store →

Burfi — stylized as ????? — is a simple web-based note-taking app that has been designed and developed by @minnix. It’s a super minimal product that just lets you start typing whatever you want. Burfi is lightweight and it loads in an instant, even on slow connections. The app has no account system, so there’s no user registration or login, and no syncing across devices. You can, however, download whatever you type in the app as a .txt file on your system. https://twitter.com/minnixio/status/1089963964321153025 I’m not sure where the name “Burfi” comes from, but in this part of the world, a…

10 Year Challenge: How Popular iOS Apps Have Changed Valia Havryliuk, writing on the ‘Flawless App Stories’ blog: Just last year App Store celebrated its 10th birthday. In 2008 it launched with 552 apps and some of them are still live inside your iPhones. Time has passed and design trends have changed dramatically. #10yearchallenge is a good opportunity to see how fast the evolution is and notice changes in the oldest iOS apps. Also see: How Websites Have Changed P.S: We know we’ve been away for a while, but we’re back now. Our regular schedule follows in the coming days.

Affinity Publisher Free Beta Now Available Serif has just announced that Affinity Publisher, the company’s new Desktop Publishing app, is now available in a Free public beta. The company had revealed that it was working on a third app, after Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, via a tweet back in July. You can download the free beta of Affinity Publisher for both Mac and Windows systems, with the fairly straightforward system requirements available here. The company does note that this is a beta, so you should not use it for any important production work at this time. It’s great to…

[linky url=”https://twitter.com/reederapp/status/1034821640864129026″]Reeder 3 for iOS & Mac Goes Free[/linky] Reeder 3 — the popular RSS Reader app available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices has gone Free on the App Store. In a tweet, Silvio Rizzi, the @reederapp developer has announced that the app will be free “until version 4 is released later this year”. Reeder is free until version 4 is released later this year as a paid upgrade. No subscription. It’s also interesting to note that Reeder 4 will be a paid upgrade for everyone, and will be available as a one-time purchase as opposed to the current…

[linky url=”https://www.instapaper.com/premium” title”Instapaper Resumes Service in EU and Relaunches Premium Subscription”]Instapaper Relaunches Premium & Resumes Services in EU[/linky] Instapaper, the insanely popular and feature-rich “read later” service has today announced that it is relaunching its ‘Premium’ offering. The service was created by Marco Arment around 10 years ago and he sold it to Betaworks before it was later acquired by Pinterest in 2016. However, as GDPR came into effect a few months ago, the service went completely dark for users in the European Union and there was no clear communication from the company when it would be back. Surprisingly enough,…