Author: Akshay Pathare

Serif Ltd. — the powerhouse behind the popular creative apps Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer has today introduced Affinity Spotlight — a new website for creative professionals and enthusiasts. Affinity Spotlight is poised as a place for news, learning resources, and inspiration and it will bring weekly updates from the insightful community of Affinity app users. Serif is known for its incredible suite of apps targeted towards creative professionals. The company offers Affinity Photo — a professional image editing app for Desktop as well as for iPad and Affinity Designer — a professional graphic designing app for Desktop, for which…

Google finally seems to be getting serious about ‘Gettings Things Done’ and is realizing the importance of “to do” lists in today’s day and age. The company is today introducing a major revamp to Google Tasks, along with fresh new standalone apps for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. These apps were introduced alongside the announcement for the new Gmail UI and features, which will be rolling out to G Suite customers as well as personal Gmail users in the coming weeks. Until now, Google Tasks always seemed like a side-product that was quite neglected. It was well integrated with the…

Cornerstone 4 Introduces Shelving & Checkpointing for SVN Earlier this year, Cornerstone — the popular and possibly the best Subversion (SVN) client for Mac was acquired by Assembla. The company has been working on a major update to Cornerstone over the last three months, which was released this month in the form of Cornerstone 4. Cornerstone 4 is the first and only Mac SVN app with support for Shelving and Checkpointing features of SVN. Shelving allows you to temporarily save your uncommitted modifications (that is, “shelve” them) and return to the main working tree. Checkpointing allows you to create checkpoints…

Unsplash is one of my favorite websites on the internet today. It is not only a fantastic resource for stunning, high-quality photos that you can download and use for free, it is also a brilliant source of inspiration for photographers like me to spend their free time. There are some super talented photographers posting their work there and it’s quite motivating for me to get out there and capture the beautiful world around us. So I was delighted to learn that just last week, they released the official Unsplash app for iPhone and iPad. Unsplash already has a native Mac…

Mozilla seems to be the only major entity today that cares about user security, privacy & data control. The company has over the last year taken some commendable policy decisions and has released products like Firefox Focus for iPhone & iPad — a privacy-focused browser that blocks ads and other trackers on any websites you visit, the Facebook Container Addon for Firefox on desktop — a specilized addon for Facebook to disallow it from tracking you. Last week, Mozilla updated the main Firefox browser app for iOS to version 11.0 that enables the Tracking Protection feature by default and adds…

Google Assistant for iPhone and iPad Now Supports Hindi and Indonesian Languages The Google Assistant app for iOS has just been updated with support for Hindi and Indonesian languages. Version 1.2.5806, which is now rolling out on the App Store, comes hot on the heels of version 1.2.4507 released last week that introduced iPad support in the app. To make Google Assistant speak these new languages, you have to change your iOS Device language by going to Settings → General → Language & Region → [Device] Language