While the Internet is an all giving place filled with useful information, we still turn to books when we want something solid. There’s something authoritative about a book, a sense of completion. But in our fast and busy lives, we hardly have the time to swift through books. Snippet is a new app that combines the best of traditional authoritative books with the wonders of digital age, and it does it far better than an ebook.
Author: Khamosh Pathak
Technology is so widespread these days that people actually take vacations from Tech. Where they leave their laptops and tablets and even their smartphone at home and embark on a journey of self fulfillment and discovery. I’m not sure that’s for everyone. Information is useful. Especially when you are going to totally new place you know nothing about. This is the time to use technology and apps to improve your experience.
Foursquare is what most of us use to check in to places, show our love for our favorite restaurants and to become the mayor of the place, hoping to reserve a permanent parking spot. These days, you can do a lot more than just check in to a place with Foursquare. There’s reviews and maps and pictures among other things. Placescore is a stripped down version of Foursquare with a slice of gamification. Placescore is a really simple iPhone app. It uses your GPS to track your location and shows you the nearest attractions, courtesy of Foursquare. Pick the one…
Sports tracking apps are nothing new and they have existed since we’ve had GPS built into phones. With iOS and Android, we finally could have great apps. As a fan of the great outdoors, I’ve tried a handful of these apps to track my bike rides. Endomondo is great for tracking runs but buggy when it comes to bikes. MapMyRide is great at mapping my rides but nothing else. Runtastic promises to do it all. Runtastic have added a bunch of features, streamlined their interface across different platforms in Version 5.
Once there was Flickr, then Facebook, then Instagram. Different ways to share your photos. As advanced as these systems are, it’s still just about sharing a collection of photos, may be you add a caption to some of them or bundle them up in an album. But there’s no narrative. These tools are perfectly capable of satisfying the photographer in you, but what about the storyteller? Photo stories seems to be the answer. It’s not just a slideshow of a photos or even a photo essay. It’s photos, videos and text placed in order to create a narrative – to…
I’ve tried my fair share of expense trackers. Attempting to log every penny I spend — be it my electricity bill or a cup of coffee, trying to get an exact idea of where all my money ends up and hoping to manage it in a better way. I’ve tried my fair share of apps, ranging from Expense Manager for Android to Finances for iPhone but the process soon got too boring and nothing stuck. Next 2.0 seems to be simple enough to keep me going and powerful enough to manage my money better.