Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

After rocking our socks off with the National Parks app early last year, National Geographic has released their second app on the App Store, this time focusing on guides for some of the world’s most popular tourist cities. The National Parks app, which was developed by the talented bunch at Rally Interactive, was content-rich and particularly spectacular at its animations & transitions. Overall, it felt like a really awesome & polished app, even making it to our list of Best of 2012: UI Animations as well as our Editor’s Choice of 2012. Rally Interactive has added the same level of…

There are numerous simplified blogging tools on the market today. Some of these tools are from developers who believe that WordPress, arguably the world’s best blogging platform, has become too bloated and is more of a CMS now. The others are from developers who want to work on their own take and ideology of what an ideal no-hassle blogging tool should be like. A lot of these new tools are either available as a service or as downloadable self-hosted systems and put a huge focus on distraction-free writing environments. Roon is a similar service that claims to be “the easiest…

Squarespace is a beautiful, intuitive website publishing platform that makes innovative web design more accessible than ever before. Create and maintain a professional website with responsive, magazine-quality layouts – all without touching a line of code. There’s a Free 14-day trial for you to try them out. But we’re sure you’ll love them. A huge thanks to the folks at Squarespace for having sponsored our RSS feed this week.

Instagram today has become an immensely popular social network to post your photos on. The concept of adding filters and posting your photos to your followers has worked so well that you see numerous other apps mimic that behaviour, including Twitter’s official app and the stock app on iOS 7. There are all kinds of photos that are being posted on Instagram and Instapuzzle brings photo puzzles powered by these photos to your iPhone or iPod touch. Instapuzzle features a really beautiful UI that makes use of bright & playful colors, wonderfully done animations and transitions throughout the app. The…

The folks at Ramotion are known to design some of the most photo-realistic apps that I’ve come across. We’ve already written about two of their previous apps that they’ve released on the App Store, Pick’n’Roll — the iPad app to browse shots on Dribbble and TurnPlay — the Most Ridiculously Detailed Vinyl Record Player App for iPad. For their third app, Ramotion decided to step back a bit and in keeping up with the newest design trend, have released a simple app with a, dare I say, “flat” design. Flipper is a simple iPhone app that lets you flip or…

Google is by far the most popular search engine on the market today and they have _jiggabits) of data that they can analyze and pull interesting stats from. For a while now, Google has been listing all the currently popular and Hot Searches on their Google Trends page. We just came across this very beautiful and visually fabulous way that Google is now offering to view all the hot searches and keywords currently trending across different regions that the search giant is available in. The visualizer displays these keywords using different bold colors and there’s a really nice slide animation…