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It’s not just stunning. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Magical Weather is crafted by Sophia Teutschler, a designer and iOS developer, who keep pushing many beautiful apps under her own brand Sophiestication. Without doubt, Magical Weather carries the essential of “great design in simple app” that I can’t stop myself from not writing about it.

Weather Exposé displays your current location weather and allows you to add 8 more locations. Each Exposé will show the temperature and weather condition in front of the scenic images. Easily add location by city, zip code, or airport code.

Captivated by the animation that changes according the weather condition, the iPad on the side of desk has turned into a useful weather station.

Detailed weather information can be found by tapping on each Exposé. Weather Panel will show the atmospheric pressure, humidity, chance of rain, wind speed, and also UV index. Under the same panel, you can see the weather forecast for upcoming 6 days. You can easily hide the forecast by dragging the side panel down.

Drag the side panel and you can view today the temperature and chance of rain change measured in hour interval. Especially useful for someone like me who lives in a tropical country.

This gorgeous app is current on sale, and you can get it on your iPad for $0.99.

I can hardly tell the DragonDrop’s purpose from the its description. The developer describes DragonDrop as a utility that makes dragging and dropping easier on your Mac. One thing is true. The process of dragging and dropping on Mac is difficult. There are many times where I need drop the files into “Open File…” window and miss the hold state during the process.

Out of curiosity and also the due to the price drop from $4.99 to $1.99, I bought this app after using the trial. It does makes dragging and dropping easier on my Mac.

DragonDrop uses a very simple approach to ease up your life. It creates temporary holder whenever you shake your mouse cursor and allow you to drop anything you can drag out. That includes folders, images, and URL from the browsers. The use of shake movement to activate the holder is easier to remember compared shortcut. Not only the use of kinesthetic control makes everything easier, DragonDrop carefully take care of the user by showing the holder right beside where the cursor is activated.

If you’re fond of working with menu bar, DragonDrop also provides a way for you to drop the dragged files into its icon in menu bar. Personally, I prefer the shake approach compared to dropping in menu bar.

At the price of $4.99, DragonDrop may not suit everyone. While it does its task very well, I can hardly find anyone beside Mac power users enjoy using this app. If you’re not sure whether you’ll need this, you can download the trial from developer website.