Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Ulysses III v1.1 Back in April, we wrote about Ulysses III. Ulysses III is a phenomenal writing tool for Mac with a boatload of features to please every kind of writer. If you haven’t already, I urge you to read what we had to say about it. The developers yesterday released version 1.1 of Ulysses III that managed to make an already great app even better. With this release, the app not only gets OS X Mavericks optimizations, but also adds some fantastic features like Global Search in the sidebar, customizable export styles with ability to export as PDF &…

Tublme is a new Tumblr Desktop Client available for Mac that was released a few days ago. It boasts a powerful feature-set and comes packaged in a gorgeous, Retina-ready UI. While there have been other native desktop apps available for Mac that use the Tumblr API, none of them come close to Tublme’s features or finesse. Tublme’s most striking feature is its UI. The app sports a dark & bold interface that is already optimized for the Retina Displays. It makes use of some nice glyphs for buttons and overall, it looks great running on your Desktop. The content from…

Pixelmator Team has just released Pixelmator 3.0 FX, the much awaited update to the incredible image editing app on the Mac. With Apple introducing a lot of performance improving technologies in OS X Mavericks, Pixelmator 3.0 FX now comes with an all new Image Editing Engine that utilizes these advanced technologies of Mavericks, making the app blazing fast & spiffy. With this update, Pixelmator also introduces non-destructive Later Styles, something that the users have been demanding for a while now, along with other features like Liquify Tools and Mavericks feature support, like Tags, Multiple Displays, App Nap, etc. It even…

Boxie — A Gorgeous Dropbox Alternative on iOS Boxie is a fantastic new Dropbox app for iPhone. Unlike the official Dropbox app, Boxie looks stunning on iOS 7 and has spiffy animations, transitions & gestures to navigate through the app. The interface is gorgeous and the features that Boxie ships with make it a superb alternative to the official client on your iPhone. Federico Viticci has a lovely overview of Boxie over at MacStories. Boxie is available on the App Store for just $1.99 and the iPad version is currently in development.

Steps is a new activity tracker app available for iPhone that boasts a simplified user interface to display only the relevant bits. Steps counts how many steps you’ve taken and displays the number front & center. You can set a daily goal in the app and as you get closer to the goal, the app motivates you by showing your progress by changing the colors. Steps has some nice gradients used in its UI, which gives it a nice look. Unlike most other apps, there’s no ‘Start’ or ‘Stop’ in Steps. It works in the background, thanks to iOS 7…

After Google shutdown Reader a few months ago, a lot of new RSS services & apps sprung up and hit the market. In the last several weeks, RSS enthusiasts have seen quite a few web-based services being released as alternatives to Google Reader, along with apps that sync with these services. I personally subscribe to a lot of feeds and have tried most of the services, finally settling on Feedbin. My ideal setup for RSS involves client apps on my Mac, iPhone & iPad powered by a service that works in the background and syncs my feeds and their read…