Apps you must have !

Evernote: A revolution in note-taking
This app is revolutionizing notes as we know it. Evernote is a mobile and web sync friendly, media-rich note-taking machine. The basic function of the app is note-taking with the ability to add voice, photos, location and tags as well as the option to share with friends. The most exciting feature of this app is the Evernote trunk, which is filled with all sorts of valuable tools that are sure to help you excel at multiple things on your mini handheld.
Platforms: iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile.

Wikipanion: Who needs a textbook?
Who needs an encyclopedia when you have Wikipedia’s brain child, Wikipanion? This app has really high ratings – because it’s simply a great app. You can access open source content on any topic imaginable, an essential tool for everyone.
Platform: iPhone.

Cliqset: Consolidate your stream
Sharing, discovering and discussing on mobile and the Web just got easier: Follow your streams on Facebook, Twitter, Buzz — 70 social networks all told — in one place with Cliqset. This app is sure to simplify lives.. Platform: iPhone.

iTranslator: Translations at your fingertips
You can use iTranslator to connect to Google Translator, Babel Fish or Free Translation to help with your language translation on your go, best app for business travelers who travel to multiple countries. Platform: iPhone.

Kindle: Save money on textbooks
Digital books are for sure the way to save space and maintain your own handy personal library. With over 6,000 textbooks available for the Web, mobile and tablets, Amazon’s Kindle is the easiest and environment friendly way  to grow your library.
 Platforms: iPhone, iPad.

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The 3 Most Expensive Paintings of the world

A wise man once said, “The world is unjust and irrational, and thank god for that!”

Ever got angry watching the 4 year old at your home draw on the walls? We bet this article would work as an anger management course for you. Here’s presenting to you the 3 most expensive paintings in the world. Hope you’d like it!


Rank No: 3
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (painted in 1907) By Mr. Gustav Klimt
Cost: US$ 135 Million

Klimt took almost a year to complete this painting, and it is made of oil and gold on canvas. This painting belongs to the Jugendstil Style. The Painting was commissioned by a wealthy sugar baron, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, and the model used for the painting is his wife. This painting is also a subject of 3 documentary films.
 

 Artist: Gustav Klimt
Year: 1907
Type: Oil, silver, and gold on canvas
Dimensions: 138 cm × 138 cm (54 in × 54 in)
Location: Neue Galerie

Rank No: 2
Woman III (painted in 1953) By Mr. Willem de Kooning
Cost: US$ 137.5 Million

Woman III is the most expensive Abstract Expressionist art. It is a part of a series of 6 paintings by the same painter. It was once famously a part of the Tehran Museum of contemporary art, which was traded by the curators post the revolution in a quiet trade on the tarmac of the Vienna airport,  in return of the reminder of a 16th century Persian manuscript, Tehmasbi Shanameh which basically is about the accession of Shah Tahmasp of Persia to the throne. 

Artist: Willem de Kooning
Year: 1953
Type: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 172.7 cm × 123.2 cm (68 in × 48.5 in)

Rank No: 1
No. 5 (painted in 1948) By Mr. Jackson Pollock
Cost: US$ 140 Million

According to a report in the New York Times dated, 2nd of November, 2006, the painting was sold in a private auction for a whopping $140 Million, making it the most expensive painting ever sold in the world. Many still wonder the reason for its high cost! 




Artist: Jackson Pollock
Year: 1948
Type: Oil on fibreboard
Dimensions: 243.8 cm × 121.9 cm (96 in × 48 in)
Location: Private collection
Date of Sale: 26th November, 2002.






Source : The New York Times|Wikipedia