Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Doroto Pankowska is an Art Director, Artist and Designer from Paris (via Toronto) who I came across last week for this beautifully crafted project titled 13 Animations Made From 13 Circles. Inspired by the Twitter logo, which is made from 13 perfect circles, I decided to give myself a design challenge. I haven’t done aesthetic work in a while and I wanted to show something simple & nice in my portfolio! So, here are 13 animals each made out of 13 circles! The project, which is available for viewing here includes animals like an owl, rabbit, monkey, elephant, toucan, giraffe,…

Back in May this year, Google announced two new apps for messaging and video calling — Allo and Duo. Today, the search giant has released Google Duo into the wild, both for Android and iOS. Google Duo is a pretty simple and straightforward video calling app. It works with your phone number and doesn’t require a Google account. I love the simple interface with just a giant ‘Video Call’ button at the bottom, along with avatars of people you can call. The app lets you preview incoming video calls before you answer them via a featured called ‘Knock Knock’. To…

Perhaps you have dozens, hundreds or even thousands of contacts in your Address Book, but how many of them do you actually use on a daily basis? Exactly, just a few, like everyone else. For those people that you contact often, Contacts Pad provides you tons of ways to communicate with them. From WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat or FaceTime to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Simply open the app, or better yet, do it right from your Notification Center. Some key features you can expect in-app: Beautiful and handy app that keeps you closer to your favorite and most frequently used contacts.…

Storm It for iOS Storm It — The Tweetstorm app for Android that we wrote about early last month is now also available for iOS. Made by the talented folks at NFN Labs, Storm It lets you collect or compose your ideas down as a continuous note and then automatically splits them into <140 character tweets that are sent out from your account. The app looks and works just like the Android app, but with the added advantage of signing in directly through the Twitter account configured on iOS. Storm It for iPhone is available Free on the App Store.

I wrote about Moni a little over four years ago in 2012, after I’d started using it as the default app to manage my finances. It was unlike any other money manager I had come across back then, and it had a lot of praise-worthy things going for it. I wrote, Moni features a very elegant interface that uses a very impressive choice of colors and interactions. The app has a very flat-ish look to and features absolutely no native elements, giving it a very sleek and dare I say, sexy look. It’s not just Moni’s UI that makes it…

Hotstar Gains Chromecast Support Hotstar — Star India’s video streaming service that debuted in early 2015 and introduced Premium Subscriptions in April this year, has today updated their iOS app with support for the Chromecast. Up until now, the service was limited to smartphones and tablet devices, or you had to watch everything in a browser. Hotstar currently has the exclusive streaming rights to HBO’s Original Shows, and makes them available for streaming within hours of the US broadcast. The addition of Chromecast to the iOS app follows the update to the Android app that also gained Chromecast support a…