Yes, yes! We hear you. We love the great feedback you’ve been emailing us about our Platters and we really couldn’t be happier. We have also noted your suggestions and continue to improve every week. Along with the usual serving of iOS and interesting web stuff, we also have two great Mac apps for you to munch on. Moreover, you’ll also notice some shiny new ads on the right. We’ve started serving our own ads from today and we hope you like them. We’d like to thank the advertisers who support our work on the site and to you, our…
Author: Beautiful Pixels
Hey there! Feeling hungry, are we? Fret not, for this week’s Platter has been served. The banner for this week was created using a photo that I took a couple of days ago and the text was added using Over, an app that we recently wrote about. We also have another round of delicious pixels served for you, so take a bite and let us know how we’ve done. Reduce [showcase id=”7061″] Reduce is a fantastic app by Tobias Wiedenmann that makes it super easy to batch resize images and photos. Available as a Universal app for both the iPhone…
We have been receiving some tremendous feedback about our Platter posts from you guys and we’re glad that you like the word we’ve been doing. We have a lot more interesting content to share with you guys this week, so here’s what this week’s Platter looks like. The New Article Design on The New York Times Earlier this week, The New York Times announced a new article design that it would be bringing to its web presence. Stepping away from their age-old newspaper design, this new layout would work seamless across a desktop browser, tablets and smartphones. Based on modern…
We’re back with an all new Platter this week and boy do we have some great content ready for you. We missed serving the Platter last week due to some scheduling conflicts, but we promised to make up for it and here we are. Thermodo — A Hardware Thermometer by Robocat Another post about Robocat? What gives? Another weather app? ARGGHH. Well not really. After creating amazing weather apps for iOS and Android, Robocat have gone beyond software and have created Thermodo. Thermodo is a very small attachment for your phone or tablet that will enable your device to display…
Even though Android as a mobile operating system has improved considerably in the last year, the 3rd party app ecosystem is still severely lacking. Most apps haven’t been updated to support the new high resolution phone screens let alone have tablet UIs. So it is always great to see developers going that extra mile for apps with a polished Holo UI. Cliffhanger is one such app and a great example of how you can work with the Holo design guidelines and create something beautiful. The main screen of the app is presented in a beautiful, Holo style, with green highlights…
It’s Sunday again, which only means one thing around these parts of the pixelverse. It’s time to serve you another delicious Platter of assorted pixels. Here’s what we have in store for you today. Conditions [showcase id=”6609″] Conditions is a new simple, minimalistic take on Weather apps by Jake Marsh, and Jake gets many things right with this one. Conditions sports a very barebones and clean UI that shows you today’s temperature and condition with a neat Climacon. Tapping once reveals the five-day forecast at the bottom. Depending on what time of the day it is, Conditions will show you…