by raghu on March 10, 2013 ·
You might have a flood of apps with promising feature that enhance the photo with visual effects and other visual balances. Instagram is famous for its filters, snapseed is famous for its intuitive UI and great deed of image enhancing features and so on. But here comes a new photography app that does something different and amazing, “Path On” which is available for $1.99 on iPhone and iPad. This app basically aims at allowing the user to draw a freely drawn path or go for a template of shapes and then type text on the hand drawn path or the shape. It might seem simple but the final results are really good. Read on to know more about Path On.
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Each one is different. Different in shape, different in size, different in colour, and different in the feel and smoothness in action. Before I let you wander your minds somewhere else, we are talking about the Stylus business. Today, there is a huge crowd of styluses in the market. From Samsung bringing in its revamped S-pen for the new Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0Â to Targus, the stylus that makes your non-touchscreen Windows 8 machines into a touch responsive screen, with just plug-and-play.
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by raghu on March 8, 2013 ·
On Monday, PC Mag’s Glenn Rubenstein and his friends from TWiT had a simple task of reaching Apple’s campus at 1, Infinity Loop. As a real world experiment they wanted to test out how well Apple Maps directions will fare against Google Maps and Waze. The testers were Leo LaPorte from TWiT who was using the Waze app, John C. Dvorak who had Google Maps and finally Glenn Rubenstein who had Apple Maps. Surprisingly the much bashed and hated Apple Maps won the test. Though this is not a professional test of all kinds Apple maps seems to be not that bad afterall.
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by raghu on March 4, 2013 ·
Back in 2007 when iOS was launched it sent the tech industry to go bonkers! It wasn’t because iOS was a perfect OS but it is because of the huge usable shift from the conventional smartphone OSes. An year later Google made its entry into the smartphone ecosystem with its Android OS, just like iOS even Android was half baked initially but it turned on the heat and proved to be a worthy competitor. Over the years Android evolved to an extent that it beat out iOS by volumes and created its own cult of followers. Accepted, iOS nor Android neither of them are perfect even now. Each one of the OSes can learn a lot from one another, in this post we sum up few features that iOS could borrow from Android and yet could retain the fluidity of iOS and yet add lot more functionality to its users.
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by monis on June 23, 2012 ·
In a comment on Google+, Google’s SVPÂ Jeff Huber said that Google look forward to provide an amazing maps experience on iOS. Since Apple has dethroned Google maps application from iOS 6, it was expected that Google would want to release a standalone application through App Store which would serve as an alternative for those who need it. Also, Google could take a step forward and integrate Navigation service as well.
At this point of time, Apple maps application is unusable for many people. Specifically, in India, the drill down for detail is pathetic. You couldn’t see many of the streets and places when you zoom in inside the Apple maps application. It’s definitely a good news for those who still want to replace Apple maps with Google maps in near future when iOS 6 goes public. Moreover, Google has announced reduction in its Google Maps API pricing followed by high profile defects from the service. [click to continue…]
by monis on June 21, 2012 ·
The NDTV application for iOS has remained on the top 10 free news category applications on App Store for months. Recently, their application for iPad has received a major update which changes the User Interface of the NDTV app. Similar to twitter application, it now has a UI of deck of cards where  multiple windows are overlaid on one another. Also, you have an option to convert the window into full screen mode to read or watch a video conveniently.
If you have already used the native twitter application on iPad, you already know how to control the new User Interface. It’s more intuitive than ever. When you download the NDTV application on iPad, you would notice that the UI elements including the icon on home screen have been completely optimized for the retina display. All the categories such as News, Live Radio, Videos, Photos, Cricket, Markets, NDTV Social, Favourites and Soduko appears on the extreme left are static on their place. [click to continue…]
by monis on April 5, 2012 ·
Do you remember when Apple demoed a real-time counting of 5 billion apps download at WWDC where one application was falling over the top of another randomly? Now you can have the same experience on your iPad with the help of a twitter client called ‘Crest’. Crest is an altogether different approach to view your twitter timeline in the form of falling people from the top to bottom, one over the another randomly. Though it offers limited functionality, but the gestures have been made really simple.
Once you open the Crest application, you would be thrown with a tutorial. Just read the tutorial on how to control the application using gestures. However, even if you skip the tutorial, it won’t cause you much harm. The application is really intuitive and requires a negligible effort to understand it completely. Enter your twitter credentials when prompted. Unfortunately, it doesn’t link itself with the system integration of twitter in iOS. So, you would need to enter them manually.
As soon as you have surpassed that login page, you would see a completely black screen. Now the Crest application would fetch data from twitter and boom! you would see icon of people from your twitter timeline falling onto your screen. Depending on the orientation, those icons would fall from top to bottom. If you want to read a tweet, tap on the icon and it would appear instantly. But don’t confuse yourself about the way in which those icons have been arranged. The arrangement of twitter timeline is absolutely random. Hence there’s not a way to figure out who tweeted first until everything is loaded perfectly and timeline slows down. [click to continue…]
by sahil on March 8, 2012 ·
At the March 7 event alongside the blockbuster ‘The New iPad” Apple also unveiled the new Apple Tv. Apple has says that Apple Tv is produced by them just as a hobby. But they have been pretty serious and ambitious with their hobby this time around. Lets find out whats new.
The major upgrade to the set-up box has been its capability to stream 1080p video content. Even iCloud streams full HDÂ 1080p movies – a much-needed upgrade from the previous 720p. Previously we could just access Music and Tv shows from iCloud. But the new upgrades lets you access even Movies in iCloud anytime anywhere.
The Apple Tv also come preloaded with a slick new User Interface. Its been highly inspired by the iOS UI with streamlined big icons. The Movies icons look really stunning with banner-esque icons taking full advantage of the Full HD output.
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by sahil on March 3, 2012 ·
Apple recently made clear its intention to bring AirPlay mirroring to the Mac with the launch of Mountain Lion. But third party apps like Airparrot, brought the same functionality to Snow Leopard. The same developers have now released Reflection app which lets users of iPad 2 and iPhone 4S have their iDevices display on Mac’s display over Airplay.
The App is not complete but provides good functionality for a daily use. Once the app is installed users can select Mac from Airplay on iPad 2/iPhone 4S and Voila! the iDevice screen appears on the Mac in real-time. The display is encased in an iPhone/iPad frame and runs around 30 fps with quite a high-res of 1929-by-1080. Reflection supports Full Mirroring which means it mirrors both audio and video signals complete with orientation  lock. The Device can be set in portrait or landscape though. [click to continue…]
by raghu on February 29, 2012 ·
Who wouldn’t like to have a summary of articles from all their favourite websites in one place? Streamified for iOS is exactly the app to do that. It helps you in creating your own custom feed according to your own preferences and pool up all the articles as a beautifully created timeline. Originally created as an extension to chrome browser, streamified pooled up a huge set of happy users in a short span which prompted them to release their app for iOS. But is the app equally good enough? Read on to know more.
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