Author: Rajavanya Subramaniyan

The iPad has a lot of apps for drawing, sketching and doodling. These apps are loaded with options like calligraphic pens and fancy brushes. They also come with great user interfaces and cater to the needs of hobby artists and professionals depending on the app. There aren’t a lot of apps which might meet the requirements of a professional architect or a designer who works with precision drawing and sketching software tools on a daily basis. Archipad is a scale aware sketching app created with the semi-professional and the professional designer in mind. But Archipad isn’t built just for the…

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Outread improves reading speed by guiding your eyes through text with a regularly moving marker which highlights text. As this was the first speed reading app I was about to try, I was both curious and excited to experience speed-reading. On first launch, you get a default first article which serves as a tutorial where you are explained about how to tune the app according to your reading speed and how to increase your speed eventually. The app explains that the reading speed of a human being is slowed down due to an inner voice reading it inside your head…

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Unless you are one of those weirdos who doesn’t like to learn new languages, you are going to absolutely love Duolingo. Duolingo is a free interactive language trainer which lets you learn new languages on-the-go. You can choose to learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian or English. Duolingo is also Apple’s iPhone app of the year for the year 2013 and it’s the first time this honor has been awarded to an educational app.

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Every once in a while, somebody makes a game that stands apart from every other game that has been done before in the same genre. And sometimes it gets made so well, that it sets an entirely new standard and expectations, for anyone who tries to adapt the same genre again. The genre I’m talking about is the age-old “Text-based adventure games” and the game is Device 6 by Simogo. Text-based adventure games have almost gone obsolete. They were at their popularity peak only in the days when computers weren’t sophisticated enough to display images or animation. Simogo have bravely…

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A lot of you might have, atleast once, come across the term ‘Fourth dimension’. While it is often said that time is the fourth dimension, it’s not. In fact however we try, we might never fully understand the fourth dimension. Simply because, we exist in a three dimensional space. Hence it makes it extremely hard to even imagine how the next dimension might look like. But a few weeks ago, I came across ‘The Fourth Dimension’ app and it was the closest I came to understanding the mysterious fourth dimension.

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Some apps impress you right from the second you launch it and to me Gneo was definitely one of them. Gneo is a comprehensive task manager app available for your iOS devices that tries to set itself apart from the thousands of other similar apps on the App Store by providing some unique set of features. When it comes to productivity apps, there has never been, and there will never be, the ultimate “one size fits all” app. If you are the type of hardcore user who deals with massive to-do lists on a daily basis, you are going to…

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