Author: Rajat Sharma

I remember the first time a friend opened my eyes to the world of launchers on Mac, it felt like all my nerdy dreams had finally come true. Who amongst us hasn’t seen the admittedly puerile, yet strangely enticing, scene of a hacker in a Hollywood movie, pounding away on his/her keyboard, and essentially, pwning the world? Who amongst us hasn’t wanted to do the same? Well, thanks to Mac developers like the brilliant people behind Lacona, you can make all your Leetspeak dreams come true. Anyone who has ever used a launcher like Alfred or Launchbar, or even the…

Affinity Photo Windows Beta Now Available It’s all happening for Microsoft fans – First, the amazing Surface Studio was announced. Hot on the heels of this announcement, comes the news that Serif is launching a Beta for its 2015 Apple Mac App of the Year Award-winning pro imaging software for Windows, and what’s more, that it’s completely free for the duration of the Beta. The best news of all is that the Beta (and, of course, the final software) will feature complete feature parity with the Mac app. The Windows app will also share the same backend, meaning that files…

A single year of software testing taught me one simple fact – Engineers are from Xcode and Designers are from Photoshop. They speak completely different languages, most of the time. When they do manage to collaborate, they are both used to such different tools, that a well designed app or service actually ends up, almost always, as a compromise release – with both sides having a say, but neither side getting EXACTLY what it wants. Enter Origami, an amazing, opensource prototyping tool from Facebook. It’s been around for a while, but they’ve recently introduced Origami Studio, in lieu of their…

Medium’s App Update Makes Blogging Even Better Medium’s blogging interface is one of the finest out there, and their platform is also one of the most popular. With their latest update, the good folks over at Medium have made Mobile Blogging even easier and concurrently, more powerful. A highlight feature is the ability to create image grids on their iOS and Android apps. This allows you to add more than a single photo to your post, without sacrificing legibility or style. Tapping on the image thumbnails in this grid will open them up, for your fullscreen-viewing pleasure. Other features included…

These days, Email has been having one of those existential crises that is usually reserved for the fat molecules present in eggs ("Am I healthy? Or am I a part of an unhealthy item of food? Why am I stuck in this yellow goo?", you get the idea). It still forms an important part of our everyday lives — professional and personal, but it's generally considered so 1990s, that "I'll send you an email" is the new "How many Tazos do you have?". I, however, continue to believe that email is about as essential as a smart phone. It follows,…

In another life, I worked for a software company. Of all the things that made me want to gnaw off my own arm (and believe me, there were plenty), the one that truly broke me was the weekly time-keeping. Essentially, all employees had to recount the number of hours they spent working on projects for clients, and these hours were scrutinized like you wouldn’t believe, so you couldn’t just wing it. All I wanted was a simple utility that let me log these hours in the friendliest way possible. Alto is an app and service that offers that, and so…