Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Here at Beautiful Pixels, we love Google’s Chrome Experiments. We’ve already written about two amazing such experiments — Super Sync Sports and Chrome Maze and for the last few days, we haven’t stopped playing Roll It. Roll It is another one of Google’s many Chrome Experiments that uses both your Desktop and Smartphone devices. It involves using your smartphone (ideally running Chrome) as the ball for one of those arcade games you play at a fair. You can choose between 1 to 3 players, and you only need one phone as it’s a turn-by-turn game. Once connected and sync’d, you…

Tapmates have had a number of great looking apps to their credit in the past. They have some exceptional design & development talent with them and have churned out apps like Cookmate, Dribbblr, Piictu and designs like this Instagram Facelift back when the app was ugly. Tapmates also released the App.net app Twiggy and most recently, Moment for Mac. Moment is an absolutely gorgeous menubar app that makes it easy to share updates, links, photos and videos to Facebook without going to the website in the browser. It supports drag & drop, so you can share a single photo or…

Tall Chess is a gorgeous and fun game for iPhone that might just make more people take up playing chess. It’s an absolutely incredible implementation of chess for your iPhone and since it’s powered by Game Center, Tall Chess becomes a lot more fun when you’re playing with friends. Very similar to Letterpress by Loren Brichter, Tall Chess uses Game Center’s turn-by-turn feature to make the game of chess social. The integration makes finding an opponent or challenging a friend quick and easy, without having to sign up for an account on a 3rd party service. When you start a…

Here at Mad Mimi we know that good design is crucial to success and impacts both form and function. We’ve put a great deal of time and energy into getting the design of our core email composer just right. This means that our good design helps with your good design. Mad Mimi’s email composer uses a simple drag-and-drop interface that allows the user to custom-build their perfect email newsletter. You can add text, links, resize images, add titles, dividers, and much more. Everything lines up to the pixel and looks terrific. You can then apply different themes to your newsletter…

The monsoon gods decided to surprise us with some spectacular rain this Sunday evening at the iXyr Media HQ and the accompanying Petrichor has me pumped up about this week's Platter. We're just over a week away from WWDC '13 and are just as excited as everyone else for what new announcements Apple has lined up for us. Till then, let's take a look at what's been served on the Platter this week. Recent Recent is a tiny menubar app for Mac created by Mert & Prekesh that brings you the breaking news. It sits in the menubar and using…

Today, the iPhone is one of the best cameras available on the Market — not only because it takes some amazing photos through the camera, but also because the apps available for it result in some fantastic post-processing on those photos and also make it easier to quickly share those photos with friends, family and followers. You’re probably more likely to come across a photo shot with an iPhone than a professional DSLR while browsing any social network feed. There are already tons of camera apps available on the App Store today, with Instagram being the most popular one. Most…