Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Preshit Deorukhkar is the former Editor-in-Chief of Beautiful Pixels. He is now a Freelance Consultant, Principal at iXyr Media & SharpShutter Media. You can reach him on Twitter @preshit

As someone who watches a lot of movies, I have been loving these new movie apps coming out on the App Store. So far, we have seen TodoMovies 2, the app that boasts a ridiculously good design and a powerful feature-set. It has become my favorite app to explore and manage the movies I want to watch and have watched. There was also ‘Watched’ app that offers a much simpler and elegant experience for managing your movies. Today, another major player enters this market. Limelight, by 9:42 AM is beautiful way to browse, explore & organize your movie library. 9:42…

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A huge thanks to the folks at Squarespace for having sponsored our RSS feed this week. We’re gearing up for a big announcement next week, so we’re thrilled to have their support with us. Squarespace is a beautiful, intuitive website publishing platform that makes innovative web design more accessible than ever before. Create and maintain a professional website with responsive, magazine-quality layouts – all without touching a line of code. There’s a Free 14-day trial for you to try them out. But we’re sure you’ll love them.

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Mac

The number of Mac apps that get showcased here on Beautiful Pixels is very low compared to all the iPhone, iPad and (now) Android apps that we write about here every day. Ever since the launch of the iOS App Store in 2008, we have seen some remarkable apps come out for Apple’s mobile platform and they have only continued to get better with every passing year. Yet, there are a few Mac developers who continue to churn out beautiful & powerful Mac apps for the masses. Once such Mac app that has been consistently blowing our minds with each…

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I’m usually not into games. Word games excite me, may be a couple of FPSs, but that’s about it. That’s why it’s always Mikhail who talks about beautiful games here on Beautiful Pixels. Last week, he happened to demo a particularly interesting looking game to me, called Circulets. I was intrigued. And it was really good. When Mikhail first showed the game to me, he pitched it as an Indie game completely “forged and crafted in India”. Conceptualized, designed & developed by Hashstash Studios, Circulets is a brilliantly simple game that involves two players going head-to-head on the same device.…

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One of our awesome readers, Pete, sent us a link to this amazing app by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Making great use of the iPad’s real estate, the WWF Together app introduces you to the world’s most amazing animals in a fun and interactive way. Beautifully designed, the iPad app tells the audience some fascinating facts about the animals and makes us aware about the problems faced by them. The app follows an Origami theme for each of the animals and takes you through specially put together story streams for each animal. The stories are available for Giant Pandas,…

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Our thanks to Mad Mimi for sponsoring our RSS feed this week. Mad Mimi is an email marketing service that’s designed to be simple with a very beautiful user interface. It offers the easiest way to create & send newsletters via email and then offers advanced tracking tools with statistics. The service is extremely simple to use and both novice & advanced users can navigate through the various features offered by Mad Mimi very easily. It’s very simple to begin using the service — Mad Mimi offers a Free plan that lets you send 12,500 emails to up to 2,500…

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