Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Every so often, comes along an app in our inboxes that blows our senses away. There’s a special category of apps that I know has little use for me. Yet, there’s something about that app that just yells to be bought and downloaded. Your first few minutes with the app are usually spent staring cluelessly at it — wondering how something so beautiful exists. You start playing with the app, swiping & tapping your way through the different screens and sections of the app till you get to the point of realization, “Wow! The designers/developers of this app have truly…

Here’s a stunning example of what the new web technologies are capable of. The fine folks at HelloEnjoy have put together this highly visual & colorful interactive music experience that utilizes the power of WebGL in modern browsers. It’s interactive, so you can move your mouse pointer around to steer the “light” and even click on different areas for colorful bursts. There’s no way I can summarize the experience in words, so go ahead and open this link in your browser and let us know what you think. The site should work just fine in Google Chrome and Safari, except…

A student’s life is tough. keeping a track of all the classes, their timings, the plethora of assignments that need to be completed before the end of every week gets extremely difficult, especially when you’re pursuing a technical career. I, for one, could never manage to complete my assignments on time back in college. Probably because we never had tools like iStudiez Pro around. iStudiez is a brilliant app available for your Mac, iPhone and iPad that’s designed to make your student life easy by helping you keep a track of your busy schedule and better manage it. To read…

A few months ago, I was looking around for apps that could help me take down notes and other things during the day while I was on a tour of the remote parts of this country. There were going to be multiple places that we’d likely visit, so I wanted to jot them down neatly — complete with the names of places and the time I visited them. I figured a ‘daily journal’ type of app would be perfect for such a thing. In my search, I stumbled upon Day One. Day One is a beautifully elegant app that lets…

Here’s a nifty little web app by UI/Visual Designer extraordinaire Jeff Broderick. You may have previously come across his beautiful pixels on various app UIs — most notably in Stratus app. Jeff has put together a very nifty (and beautiful) web app, aptly called ‘Settings’. Settings gives you quick and handy access to the settings on your iOS device. Jeff has included gorgeous icons for almost all kinds of settings such that they’re just a tap away. For example, if you wanted to enable the Wi-Fi hotspot on your iPhone, instead of going to your homescreen > Settings > scroll…

Over the past few days, there has been quite a lot of buzz about a certain “new kid on the block” iOS app. The app has been praised for taking the perfect approach to rating & recommending things for your friends and followers by many and has been receiving splendid ratings on the App Store as well. Yep, we’re talking about Stamped. Stamped is a new app for iPhone that takes a very simple, interesting and the correct approach towards the whole idea of “rating and recommendation apps” for iOS. There have been quite a few apps, released on the…