Author: Rajat Sharma

Today, the trend for most professionals is to go freelance. This allows them to cherry-pick their projects and be in complete control over their work. Freelancers usually get paid by the hour, however, so logging the amount of time they spend on projects is a critical part of their lives. This is about as interesting and fun as it sounds, i.e., not at all. But the people over at Timely are here to help.

Do you think Drafts is just too complicated? Do you feel Evernote has way too many options? Are you not completely happy with Simplenote? If any of these questions is making you nod your head, Fetchnotes might just be the app for you.

Reader was one of the most popular services from Google's stable. In fact, when they decided to can it, the backlash was quite severe, with eulogies being written from all and sundry. People believed that it signaled the death of RSS, with only the enthusiasts sticking to this news aggregation method. How wrong they were! Subscriptions to feed aggregation services – like Feedly, Fever, Feed Wrangler and Feedbin – ballooned in the wake of Google's announcement, and users these days have more choice than they've ever had (or need, for that matter). Riding on the coat-tails of this newfound popularity…

I’m not much of a photography buff. I like looking at great photos as much as the next guy, but I haven’t found myself spending time browsing through apps/services like the excellent 500px or Flickr to discover new photos. In case of Instagram, well, I just let Tweetbot’s mute filters do the work for me. All that might change very soon though, thanks to Colorbay. Colorbay is a fantastic new Photo Discovery app for iPad. It connects to services like 500px, Flickr, Instagram and Pixter to not only aggregate the popular photos on those services, but also fetches your own…

'Many hands make light work' is one of the most oft quoted mantras this side of Y2K. Of course, this omits the nightmare that is team management. With limitations ranging from paucity of time, to team members' own agendas, one needs all the help one can get. Flow is an online Collaboration and Task Management tool. It allows a user to set up a virtual office of sorts, where team members can be added and tasks planned and assigned. Flow is a web service with companion apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac. At first glance, Flow looks like it has…

Most of us claim to be foodies, without realizing that actually cooking your own food is part and parcel of said title. Lack of skill, patience and ultimately, lethargy, usually win when it comes to sustaining oneself. Every once in a while, however, something comes along that changes that. For some, it could be an enforced absence of one’s mother or wife. For me, it was the launch of Basil 2.0 on the App Store. Basil is a recipe aggregator. Think of it as Ember for your kitchen. To add new recipes to the app, you can use the ‘Add…