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

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Today’s modern web technologies have made it possible for developers to do some remarkable things in the browser. We have covered some pretty great examples of that here on Beautiful Pixels, but when I stumbled across Super Sync Sports a few days ago, it still managed to blow me away. Super Sync Sports is a Chrome Experiments project by Google UK. Built entirely using modern web technologies including the HTML5 WebSockets feature, the website lets you pair your smartphone or tablet with it, allowing you to control & play three athletic games — Running, Cycling and Swimming. You control while…

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Just when you think you’ve found the perfect app for your iPhone, along comes another beautifully designed app that blows you away. In writing for Beautiful Pixels in the last three years, this has become a weekly occurrence for us. Last week, we came across the T3 Player app that knocked our socks off. Heavily inspired by the designs of Dieter Rams, T3 Player is a spectacular music player app for your iPhone. The app has been designed by Eder Rengifo & Developed by Bryn Bodayle and sports a very vintage, minimal design and aesthetics. It does what your typical…

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Thanks to the advent of cameras in smartphones and with their quality improving year after year, along with apps like Instagram to go along, the number of photos we users take these days has gone up substantially. It has become ridiculously easy to capture precious moments, various events and happenings and store them digitally. However, our photos collections are often spread over multiple locations. There’s Instagram, Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Twitter on the web, Camera Rolls on your smartphone and local libraries like iPhoto, Aperture or Lightroom. Depending on our own preference, we end up uploading different kinds of photos on…

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Apps that make me drool looking at their pixels are my favorite kind of apps on the App Store. And we’ve written about plenty of those here on Beautiful Pixels. But you know what’s even better than those? Apps about food that have some tasty pixels. So the drool factor that these apps bring along is ridiculous. One such app that stands out from what we’ve covered in the past is the Green Kitchen app. It has a collection of absolutely stunning photographs and delicious recipes for your perusal & the app managed to blow us away when we first…

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Groove is a wonderful new metronome app for your iPhone. Designed and developed by Tom Reinert, Groove is a simple app that has been designed to be fast & precise and excels at being super simple to use. Groove’s USP, in my opinion, is its sleek, suave look. The UI looks extremely spiffy and you can quickly set the required beat and hit play. The app gets to work right away. There’s a gorgeous dial in the center that lets you set your bpm & the app also lets you manually tap the dial to set the count. Once you…

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About a year ago back in January 2012, Filibaba debuted their app ‘Veggie Meals’ on the App Store. We sung praises about how the app managed to bundle some delicious dishes into a UI filled up to the brim with scrumptious pixels. A year later, the team at Filibaba is back with a freshly baked update to the app that’s sure to tickle your taste buds. With this 2.0 release, the app has been renamed to ‘Filibaba Meals’ and now comes bundled as a Universal app. While the original app was iPad only, the team has managed to bring the…

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