Author: Mikhail Madnani

There are now apps for almost everything you do during your day. Foursquare brought gamification to going places and nwplyng brought it to music. Flying was initially a concept app born at The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. The app aims to make the act of flying something special. Most travel apps aim to be your travel companion but few get the job done. I was very curious to see how Flying handles the gamification of flights in a non annoying manner. On first launch you are forced to sign in either using the built-in Twitter or Facebook integration on…

Back in March I watched a concept video of a surf guide app called Tide. It looked amazing and fitted perfectly on the platform shown in the video, Windows Phone. While Microsoft is paying developers for app numbers, the store is getting loads of garbage in the name of apps. Luckily there are gems like Tide that make the platform shine. Martin, the developer, has posted a few sketches of Tide along with the story of why he made it here. Tide isn’t an over the top app with detailed information and statistics. It displays the information you need brilliantly.…

I’m really lazy when it comes to using services on the internet properly. Until a few months ago, I used Pocket for storing articles I needed to read later and also random bookmarks I wanted to save. Thanks to that my Pocket list was a mess and I eventually spent some time cleaning it up and tagging things properly. Pocket is great for saving articles to read, videos to watch and media in general but it isn’t good for bookmarking. It isn’t meant for that. Preshit has mentioned Pinboard to me and the service seemed perfect for what I wanted…

Calca by Krueger Systems is not your everyday calculator app. It is really powerful and text based. Now I know you’re thinking of Soulver but Calca takes that vision and goes so much further. Frank Krueger wrote about why he spent a few months to make this app a reality here. [showcase id=”8906″] The first thing you will notice about Calca is the elegant almost iA Writer-esque interface. In fact it has full Markdown support as well. Calca has a very clean look. Colours are only used for syntax highlighting. On launch you can set your location for storing documents.…

The App Store is full of amazing apps for when you travel. There’s everything from apps to book tickets to specialized cuisine apps for cities. I’ve always missed an app that helps you pack and stay organized. Stow fixed that. It is perfect for people who don’t want to worry about remembering stuff like how many pairs of jeans you brought along. Stow has a lot of great things going on. Keeping track of what you pack is annoying enough but actually maintaining a list of the stuff makes me not want to bother at all. Stow takes care of…

I’ve been discovering a plethora of great games recently and just like everyone else, I bought way too many games during the Steam sale last week. Out of all the games bought and seen during the sale, one game was left out: Kentucky Route Zero. I only got to know about the game when Nathan posted about voting for it during the sale. After doing a bit of research and watching a few videos I was more or less sold on the game. The only stopping me from going in was the fact that the game is split up into…