I’ve talked about filler time before. These scarce moments in our incredibly advanced lives where there is not enough time to be productive and or to read something worthwhile. Like standing in line at Starbucks or walking to work. During long commutes you can usually listen to Audiobooks or podcasts and while that’s all well and good, there’s no good way to read/listen any content from the web. Umano fills in that gap.
Author: Khamosh Pathak
When someone mentions mobile first websites, Medium jumps to mind. If there’s one website made expressively to provide a pleasurable reading experience on any and every screen size, it’s Medium. Ever since it came out, there have been talks about a mobile app, because we just can’t stop coveting for new apps. But the team had a different approach. It did not want to make a iPhone app that merely replicated the web experience. It had to have something more, something special, something that justified its existence on the App Store. Looks like they finally figured it out – Speed.
Zippy joins a pool of quirky task management apps for iPhone. 2014 seems to be the year of list apps. With UpWord Notes and Listacular already taking the limelight. Zippy, just as many other apps, has a unique feature that sets it apart from the rest. And that is Insights.
Learnist is a crowd sourced online learning platform, much like Udemy or Codecademy, but not as specific. It lets users create lessons for any topic, with focus on curation rather than creation. We live in the times of information overload, with thousands of blogs writing about the same topic. While that’s a wonderful thing, finding good content from this stack can be overwhelming. The curators at Learnist take a topic, arrange the content in a logical manner, link relevant content – like YouTube videos or an NYT article explaining the topic, and then sort everything with a table of contents.
hello sms Hello is an SMS app for your Android phone. The UI is minimal, and the app easy to use. Hello’s breakout feature is its tabbed interface. The left pane gives you access to circle avatars of all the contacts you are conversing with (which turns grey for unknown numbers and shows initials for contacts without avatars). Tapping an avatar takes you to the conversation view where you can read and send SMSs. If you weren’t pleased with Google’s decision to integrate SMS into the Hangouts app, Hello is the best option you have right now. It’s not the…
One of the better parts of any freelance project is getting that payment comfirmation. But the process of billing itself is not so jolly. Invoicing is an important part of a freelancer's life but it's also the most dreaded. A lot of freelancers lack a dedicated billing system with a words/time/flat rate system and instead choose to just wing it at the last minute with Excel or Numbers, promising self to set up a better system next time. If that sounds like you, Hiveage is what you've been looking for. Hiveage is a new online invoicing platform from Vesess, the…