Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

As a kid, I used to love playing Housie (or Bingo, as it is known elsewhere). It was a game of sheer luck, and in most cases lunk would be in my favor and I’d end up winning cash prizes like crazy. Even today, it’s still a very enjoyable game played at our society’s annual function or group outings. Bingo Machine is a neat little iOS app that eliminates the need of a “caller” when playing the game. All you need is a Bingo card sheet/book and the app will do the rest for you. The app randomly picks numbers…

Weather apps are dime a dozen on the App Store today. There are literally hundreds of weather apps available for both the iPhone and iPad. So it’s very difficult to pick out the apps that are not only beautiful and gorgeous, but also have the information that you need. Weather 2x by McLean Mobile Solutions is a once such app that packs the perfect combination of beautiful pixels and insightful data. Weather 2x displays gorgeous, animated, fullscreen real-world visuals on the screen, based on the weather in the selected city. These are absolutely stunning to look at, and look great…

Our thanks to TeleTweet for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed. Don’t just tweet, TeleTweet! Turn a mundane, everyday Twitter update into a nostalgic trip back to a simpler time. Instead of wondering how to navigate an out-of-date relic like the Qwerty keyboard (c. 1878) and its confusing array of rows upon rows of keys, use a classic, straightforward communication instrument, the telegraph key (c. 1835), and an infinitely simpler keyboard based on Morse code’s two keys: dit and dah. Life is hectic, busy, rushed, and filled with unnecessary distractions. More and more, people are shunning today’s digital lifestyle, going “off…

I’m sure everyone who has attempted to prepare something to eat in the kitchen has found himself in a situation where you have to use X units of an item, but you have no clue exactly how much that unit is exactly. Many a times, a recipe for your favorite food item asks you to mix 4 pints of item A with 4 fluid ounces of item B and then add 3 milliliters of item X. Kitchenator is a simple iPhone app that’s built to help you in cases like this. It features an intuitive, single-screen UI that lets you…

Invy is a beautiful & elegant app that lets you quickly and easily schedule a meeting/event/appointment with anyone. The app is perfect for cases where you have to co-ordinate with multiple people and go back and forth with emails and messages trying to fix a specific date and time for the meet. The app is extremely well designed and easy to use. Say you want to go watch ‘The Avengers’ that’s releasing this Friday on April 27th here in India. Just launch the app and tap the new Invite button, give it a title, location and select all the recipients…

Here’s a simple yet gorgeously functional app for all of you who like to keep a track of how the weather’s going to be over the next few days. Nubilous helps you glance at the temperatures for you city over the next seven days. It displays a simple list of temperatures and how the weather is going to be for that day of the week. Tapping on each day shows you the temperatures and weather predicted for the Morning, Noon, Evening and Night. The app automatically geolocates you current city on launch, but you can add multiple cities that you…