Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

In our day-to-day lives, every so often, we’ve all used our iPhone camera to take photos of things that we want to remember for later. It could be an ad you saw in the newspaper, a poster you saw on the street, funny bumper stickers, an interesting recipe you came across on a friend’s coffee table or contact details painted on home improvement trucks. There are many such examples where you just want to store that information and taking a photograph is obviously quicker and easier than typing it down, one keypress at a time. The problem arises when you…

Our thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring the Beautiful Pixels RSS feed this week. Squarespace is a super simple way to build your own website, portfolio or e-commerce store. It offers a beautiful and intuitive publishing platform, allowing you to create and manage a professional looking website with ease. You get dozens of great-looking templates to get started on your own website and customizing them to suit your needs is extremely easy. Squarespace is a full-featured platform, so you don’t have to worry about hosting or domains. Everything related to your website is managed right on Squarespace. Squarespace is a great…

Vert is a beautifully crafted unit conversion app for iPhone that quickly managed to blow me away with its simplicity. The App Store is already filled with dozens of different unit converters, some of which we’ve written about here on Beautiful Pixels. Yet when I first laid my eyes on Vert, I was instantly hooked. Vert’s most notable thing is how spiffy and quick it is. Taps, swipes and transitions happen quickly and you are taken to the screen you want to go to, in no time. The units available for conversion in Vert are neatly categorized, so it’s easy…

I have been a Simplenote user for the longest time. I had briefly moved to a couple of alternate apps to try them out, but Simplenote’s best feature is what kept bringing me back to it every single time — its simplicity. Simplenote has always kept the focus on content — your content. With a bare minimum chrome in its apps, Simplenote has stayed away from flashy gradients, big UI elements and detailed icons and instead, has offered a minimal, mostly white user interface to its users. I liked everything about Simplenote, so paying for its Premium subscription and supporting…

Smartphones today have made reading while on the move a much better experience. You could be waiting anywhere — on the bus, in the queue, at a café or even at your dentist’s and you could whip out your iPhone and spend your time reading something. Services like Pocket, Instapaper or Readability have made it possible to save a long list of content that you’d want to read, but don’t have time to read at that very moment. Syllable is a new iPhone app that works as a companion app to help you speed read. Syllable is designed to help…

I have come across and tested quite a few online invoicing services over the last couple of years. While every service offers their own unique set of features and different pricing to best suit a customer’s needs, I found that they were always lacking in some form or the other. For a long time, I was using CurdBee (Sidenote: Hiveage is launching soon) which was pretty great, but I soon grew out of it and began looking elsewhere. I tried out a few different services, including Harvest and Freshbooks, before finally settling on Ballpark. One of the major reasons why…