WWDC 2018 — Apple’s annual conference for its developer community — is being held in California this week and while the keynote and the big announcements have already taken place, it has been quite interesting to see Apple’s approach towards the macOS and iOS platforms this year. Since its release last year, iOS 11 has been a combination of frustration and “awesome” for a lot of people. While the iPad continues to get more powerful, features like Drag and Drop have been more of a pain than a feature considering how some apps still haven’t supported it. Announced this week…
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Wix.com — The Web is your Playground Our thanks to the folks at Wix.com for sponsoring Beautiful Pixels this week. Wix.com lets you build stunning websites for yourself for free. Using their free website builder that makes use of easy drag-and-drop tools, making websites becomes super easy and super fun. You can even download Wix’s free kit of icons to use on your website and customize your website just the way you want. If you’re in the market for a beautiful website, give Wix a try. You won’t be disappointed.
Archisketch, which was initially called Archipad, has come a long way since Version 1.1 which was positively reviewed here on Beautiful Pixels. This week, the developers of Archisketch dropped version 2.7.1 which is available for download from the App Store. True to its initial objectives, Archisketch continues to combine freehand sketching and solid line drawing tools to facilitate early stage design and development process, a counterpoint to complicated CAD and BIM softwares used in the design industries. This has made Archisketch not only popular with Architects but with anyone that requires a simple way of working with scaled drawings such…
Apple officially released iOS 11 to the public a little under 24 hours ago and by now, I’m sure it is already up and running on your iPhone. iOS 11 is a major release from Apple that brings along an updated User Interface along with a host of new features and improvements. More importantly, though, iOS 11 is a massive release for iPad and introduces some incredible and much-needed features that make the iPad a truly powerful computing device and a very viable product for most consumers. One of the biggest features of iOS 11 on the iPad is Drag…
Web design is not the same it used to be several years ago. It keeps developing with every passing year, unveiling lots of opportunities to people across the globe. Websites become more functional and visually appealing, which makes it possible for their owners to reach their special business and personal goals. As the need for quality websites keeps growing, more people start thinking of creating their own services. For those of them, who have specific skills and knowledge, this doesn’t seem to be a problem at first sight. This is not altogether true, however. The thing is that they have…
If you’re someone who spends a good amount of time and money on the stock market, then keeping up with the stock prices is an essential part of your day-to-day lives. People usually keep an eye on several stock prices simultaneously, so having a nifty iPhone app in your pocket that does the bulk of the work for you is something that everyone craves for. There were two good iPhone apps for keeping up with the stock prices — Shares and Portfolio, but both of them are now dead and unavailable on the App Store. Thankfully, Firetail is here to…