Author: Beautiful Pixels

Our thanks to Write app for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed. Developed by Tanmay Sonawane (who’s also one of our new Editors here on Beautiful Pixels), Write is feature-packed and is designed to work as your goto text-editor on iOS. You should definitely check it out. The act of writing in this age of computers & mobiles has completely evolved from pen and paper to a purely digital form. We now prefer writing down something in a text or word processor than on a piece of paper. The downside to that is – data loss, it’s a rampant problem and…

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Wow! This last week surely flew by pretty quickly, didn’t it? It’s time for another Platter to be presented to you and boy do we have some tasty pixels for you this Sunday. We received all positive feedback for the inclusion of screenshots in the last week’s Platter, so we’ll be continuing that going forward. Without wasting any more of your time, here’s this week’s Platter. Artista [showcase id=”6461″] Artista is another simple Last.fm client for iPhone. Lovingly made by the folks at Phantom Sun Creative, Artista is designed to be a simple & elegant companion on your iPhone while…

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Hey there! You’re probably wondering what ‘The Platter’ is all about, aren’t you? The Platter is our new series of posts that we’ll be publishing every Sunday. In writing for Beautiful Pixels, we come across a lot of great apps, tons of examples of beautiful design or exceptional cases of web apps that we would like to share with our readers. The Platter is our way of serving these to you. No one likes reading too much about one thing on a lazy Sunday so we decided to do this. Every sunday, we’ll pick an assorted selection of these interesting…

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So far, as a part of our ‘Best of 2012’ series, we’ve already shown you our picks for the Best App Icons, Best UI Animations, the Best apps to replace the default/stock apps on iOS. So today, to conclude the series and the year, we thought we’d pick the absolute best apps of 2012. Mikhail and Preshit have put together a list of their favorite apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and Mikhail has curated a list of his favorite Games. Note that we’ve decided to leave out Twitter apps from the list below. Most of our readers have already…

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As a part of our ‘Best of 2012’ series to end of this year, we’ve already shown you our picks for Best App Icons and the Best UI Animations so far. We thought today would be a good day to feature some excellent alternative apps or replacements to the stock/default apps that Apple offers for iOS. We’re sure many of our readers would’ve either gifted or received an iOS device this holiday season, so this list will hopefully help you find a better app that fits your needs the best. We should note that unlike Android or OS X, iOS…

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We continue our ‘Best of 2012’ series with our favourite UI animtions from apps that came out this year. Apps can have stunning UIs & great functionality, but having unique animations and transitions in them make you coming back to them and make the apps worthy of showing off the platform. A good animation or transition when you least expect it gives you that feeling of delight and often makes you fall in love with it. 2012 has seen many popular apps get refined and also big companies finally realizing the importance of a good UI in an app. Android…

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