Author: Rajavanya Subramaniyan

Turbine Reader is one of the few newsreader apps which stay extremely faithful to iOS 7’s design philosophies and technologies. It has a highly minimalistic design, which I think is essential to all kind of news reading apps. It takes all the clutter out and puts the focus on just one thing — the ‘content’. Turbine Reader currently supports just two services — Feedwrangler or Feedbin, although you can use only one account at a time. The app presents a standard sidebar approach on the iPad, with all your subscriptions listed in it. These can be accessed by a simple…

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Having lived the major part of my childhood in a small town, there is one memory vividly etched in my brain. Some days, very early in the morning a little before 5 am, my mother would wake me up to show the planet ‘Venus’. It was such a magnificent sight to see the planet decorating the sky with its beautiful shimmering glow. That could be where my interest for sky-gazing started. ‘Sky Guide’ is a jaw-dropping, beautifully crafted iOS app for anyone who is interested in astronomy or star-gazing.

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Nonapkin, the iPhone app, is a photo-recipe based, mobile only social network. The app seems to have a good number of existing recipes on its network already created by users who are professional chefs and is available for you to browse through and try them out. Lets go through different aspects of the app one by one. Features Nonapkin at its core is a photo-recipe sharing social network. To get the most out of the app, you need to login with your facebook account. But even without that, you can just browse through all the recipes on their network. They…

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“Food Journals Double Weight-loss” says the American journal of preventative medicine. But keeping a food journal is not at all as easy as it sounds, if you have ever tried it. Having tried many calorie tracking apps in the past, and failing each time miserably to update it and keep up with it regularly, I can say ‘Pictrition’ definitely makes the task 10x easier and simpler. Developers of Pictrition call it a ‘game’ that helps you eat healthy, lose weight and stay on track by keeping a photo-based food journal. Being out just 3 days ago, the app is still…

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I still remember the day when I spotted my ex-colleague using Silvio Rizzi’s ‘Reeder’ on the Mac for the first time. Before that, I wasn’t convinced enough to use any of the desktop news reader apps, and the only place I used to read was on Google Reader in my browser. But Reeder changed that instantly within a few minutes. Reeder’s two key strengths were the reason for it — its simplicity and speed. Reeder 2, the recently launched Universal app, stays completely true to the two original strengths of its predecessors. While most other popular news readers have attempted…

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Aviary doesn’t do anything radically new when compared to the usual photo editing apps on the App Store. But what it does manage very well, is to present you with all the features you will ever need in a photo editing app with the ‘best’ possible interface on iOS. It has a huge set of features comprising of the usual photo filters, frames, stickers and every other option you might expect from an iOS photo editing app, along with some interesting one-touch enhancement options, a very cool splash mode editing, text tool and more options which includes even a basic…

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