OpenEmu is an open source video game emulation app for Mac that aims to bring all your favourite consoles to you in a single gorgeous app. The app uses a dark theme throughout and has a beautiful retro icon that is reminiscent of an arcade controller. I’ve been looking for a way to play the Game Boy Advance version of Final Fantasy IV on my Mac and downloaded OpenEmu on Mikhail’s recommendation.
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First Tracks with Helly Hansen First Tracks with Helly Hansen is a gorgeous alarm clock created specially for those looking out for the perfect time go skiing. The app uses the Forecast.io API to find out if it snowed at night in your location. If it did, the app wakes you up earlier than your default alarm time so that you can catch a ride on that fresh powder. First Tracks uses a lovely image as its background and blurs out the image while displaying UI elements. The app is clean, does one thing, and does it well. It’s available…
Numerical is a beautiful gesture driven calculator created by Andrew J Clark over at Very Tiny Machines. You might know Andrew from the entertaining podcast he hosts with Zac Cichy – The Menu Bar. The app is dead simple and uses lovely colour gradients throughout. It even has a beautfiul icon that looks gorgeous on the iPhone’s homescreen.
We’ve written about Wake Alarm Clock and Rise Alarm Clock before on Beautiful Pixels and both apps have received a thumbs up from us. Since the arrival of iOS 7, Wake and Rise have been updated to version 2.0 and 4.0 respectively. Both updates include new features and now require iOS 7 or later. Wake and Rise are minimalistic in their own way and have only gotten better with their recent updates. Since we’ve written about the functionality of these apps before, we’ll only be covering the new features and beautiful pixels that have been added. With version 2.0, Wake…
Jelly is an iPhone and Android app brought to you by Biz Stone (Co-founder of Twitter) and Ben Finkel. The app aims to make it easier for you to get answers to any questions you might have with the help of social media. Jelly’s interface is extremely simple and full of playful animations that make the app an absolute joy to use. The fonts, colours and glyphs used in the app are slick as well. Since Jelly posts your queries to your friends/followers on social media, you need to connect Jelly to one of your social accounts, either Twitter or…
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