Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

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How many times have you had to take down notes on your iPhone and found that your full-fledged note-taking app was either slow or required a few too many taps to get to the actual screen to type in something? I use Simplenote and often find myself in such a scenario. There are times when I need to quickly jot down something when I’m out & about — not something I want to save forever but just briefly, usually for the rest of the day till I attend to it. This might be a driver’s phone number of the registration…

There’s no doubt that Instagram has become one of the most popular apps on the iOS platform. In fact, after the recent launch of an Android app and the much hyped Facebook purchase, I’d say it is one of the most popular mobile apps to have been released in recent years. A large number of apps spawned after Instagram released its API and went on to become popular too, even though posting photos to the service is still only possible through the main app. Flipagram is one such beautiful new app that makes use of the Instagram API. The app…

In the years that I’ve been actively writing and publishing on the internet, I have seen my fair share of some amazing websites that have blown me over either with their design or the use of newer web technologies. But my mind just wasn’t ready to handle the sheer goodness of the Ramayana project. For the uninitiated, Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic from India about the prince Rama, one of Hindu mythology’s most popular gods. The site has been commissioned by Google to launch their Chrome browser in Asia and was developed by Fantasy Interactive (more commonly known as…

In August last year, we wrote about Pokki — a fabulous program for Windows PCs that lets you install and run specially made HTML5 apps as regular apps on your system taskbar. Pokki has some beautiful apps designed for it today, including the gorgeous Gmail interface that we featured back then. Today, we came across Instagrille — another stunning app built on Pokki. Instagrille is a beautiful Instagram client for your PC. It features a very elegant UI with a nice dark grey color scheme. Instagrille lays our your Instagram feed in a neat grid, also letting you view Popular…

Your mobile device makes for a perfect journaling tool, doesn’t it? You carry it all the time, so it’s always with you no matter where you are. It’s almost always connected to the internet. It comes with a smart keyboard to type on and a fantastic camera to take photos or shoot video. All this makes is very easy to jot down your moments & experiences into your phone and recollect them months, even years later. There are already some beautiful journaling apps available for the iPhone — we’ve talked about Momento, Roller Journal and Day One in the past.…