When it comes to gaming on the iPad, options flow like the river Nile. You’ve got classic word games like Letterpress and innovative number games like Threes!. This is the iPad we’re talking about, so naturally it doesn’t stop there. There are many games that are somewhere in between, made by passionate indie developers creating & experimenting with all sorts of game mechanics.
Author: Khamosh Pathak
I love writing about tech and I love food. Looking up recipes, prepping it, sharing it with friends and even with the internet if something turns out to be particularly delicious. The former is rapidly turning into a real profession while my passion for latter is fleeting. Time seems to be the culprit. Talking in sports metaphor, I’m no longer playing in the field. I’m sitting there on the 2nd deck, munching on the stuff I bought from the concession stand. Thankfully, on the internet there’s a place for everyone. An entire industry built on capturing your imagination when it…
When it comes to emailing photos, Gmail’s 25 MB limit runs out before the 15th picture is attached. We take more photos than that of our lunch these days. Of course, there are alternatives. You can use Google Drive storage and attach that in the email, or share via iCloud or Dropbox. But your friends might not be Beautiful Pixels readers. We want a dead simple solution for the sender and receiver. WeTransfer’s iPhone app is more than happy to help.
When it comes to music or entertainment magazines, I usually just flick through them waiting in line at the doctor’s office or at the barber shop. In other words, I’ve never bought or picked up a music magazine with an express purpose of reading it. Those odd visits through the glossy papers usually told me what was hip and alerted my sharpened filter what to stay away from. And when you’ve got Twitter at your disposal, who needs a carefully curated music magazine? Or so I thought, until I came across Pause.
If you are a fan of the written word displayed on an a high resolution illuminated screen, Mac is the best place to be. Over the past few years the experience of reading and writing on the Mac has kept on improving. There are innovative Markdown editors like Ulysses and Writer Pro out there, as well as beautiful RSS readers like Readkit. Slicereader joins this club with its own take on reading on the Mac.
Morning for iPhone Last year, I wrote about an app called Morning for iPad — a dashboard app showing you constant updates from your events, appointments, RSS feeds, reminders, weather, etc. on the big beautiful iPad screen. Now the developer has updated the app and added support for iPhone as well. The design language is mostly the same, only a bit more sharper and refined. And of course, due to the size constrains of the iPhone screen, you can’t have 6 big boxes of live updating content, here you have to make do with 6 rows instead. You interact with…