I started listening to podcasts (like the TED Talk, Ellen deGeneres Show, NPR etc.) to listen to something other than country music on my way back home every day. On the iPhone, the Podcasts app (from Apple) is a standard affair – and it’s hardly necessary for most purposes to

In my free time, I tend to play around with MIDI, audio tracks, sequencing, mastering an what not. Making music – for fun or profession – is extremely interesting work. Like any other art form, a lot of ideas float around and it takes some amount of a talent and effort to

To some of us, news is like email: it’s one of the most important things to check on a daily basis. A long time ago, catching up with news was simple – you subscribed to a daily newspaper. After this, radio news bulletins and television news channels came up. In

When it comes to customizing keypads on your smartphone, Android rules. iOS has been pathetically late to the party and in that time, custom keyboards on Android have gone from simple imitations to feature-packed apps. There’s a discernible trend in the way keypads are designed / developed. One of the

We’re still finding interesting things in Android M (thanks to all the developers who’ve been playing with it). From a super-smart context-aware search feature across all apps to some new experiments in dark/light modes, Google’s Android M is turning out to be a major step in making smartphones much smarter

You said something to your computer and it magically transformed that into text, ready to be used in your email, document, notes etc. This used to be one of the futuristic things for me back in early 2000 (before the advent of smartphones) and continued to be something I wished

Expense tracking is a good thing. Out of all the benefits it has, what has helped me most is the ability to budget my expenses for the month, check out the trends (of where my expenditure goes), and a bird’s-eye view of how I’m doing on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. I’m

Project Ara: Almost Ready for Launch At Google I/O, folks finally put together a true Project Ara phone and turned it on. The project is all about true smartphone customization where you can cherry pick the hardware components (system memory, battery, camera, processor etc.) and assemble your smartphone yourself. Project

Did you know that a factory reset – something we’ve all come to believe is a full wipe/format for our Android phones – does not remove all data? In last week’s news, we found out this and other interesting things. From the possibility of fingerprint tech in Android M to

Many people have to get to their computers to create and send invoices. With a large chunk of business transactions going mobile – sending payments, requesting payments, email communication, sending docs for signature etc. – invoicing is still stuck in the PC-era in most cases. With startups, small businesses and