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

I’m far from calling myself a “photographer”, but I do occasionally takes photos that turn out to be quite good. No, not the ones at a family event or with tens of people in the frame, but photos of products, landscapes or even random interesting objects I come across. There was a time when I used to share them on my Flickr profile. However, Yahoo! has pretty much left the product in a stagnated state in the last couple of years and a lot of users — amateurs and professionals have since moved onto other networks. The network that is…

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Batch is a collection of 300 beautifully crafted icons by Adam Whitcroft. Each icon has been lovingly designed and the collection includes a variety of different cases where you could use the icons, either when designing for the web or just simple in User Interface Design. Each icon in the collection is available as a single Photoshop shape layer, so you can easily scale the icons without worrying about quality loss. While Adam had originally released the set as a paid download, he decided to make them available for FREE after gauging the initial response and feedback. The zip contains…

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Many of the users on Twitter today have already settled onto their favorite mobile client or app. There’s a good chance that many of your reading this are already using Tweetbot as your client of choice — widely regarded as the best Twitter app available for iOS. There are also the users that prefer other client apps, like Twitterrific or simply the official Twitter app. Many other iOS Twitter apps have come to the App Store in the past, but have not succeeded to win over any substantial number of users. Moreover, Twitter itself has been pretty hostile towards developers…

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The App Store can never have enough alarm clock apps, can it? Start is a freshly released gesture-driven alarm clock app by Tack Mobile that features a refreshing UI style, very rarely seen on the App Store these days. The app boasts a slick & flat-ish UI, something I’m sure will catch Mikhail’s eye. It uses brightly blended colors throughout all the screens and is very spiffy in its animations. Start focuses heavily on gestures and taps for all the actions in the app. Primarily an alarm clock app, it’s very easy to set up alarms using a few simple…

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Have you ever tried to reflect back on your day or week, wondering where your time was spent or which activity ate up most of your time? Or you’ve just wanted to chalk down your activities during the day and visualize them? iTrackMyTime will help you do exactly that, with a UI that’s coated with some scrumptious pixels. The app is essentially very straightforward in its premise — it lets you track your time & log your daily activities. But iTrackMyTime excels in the way it analyzes and then presents this data it collects from you. Getting started with the…

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Entypo is a wonderful collection of beautifully crafted pictograms by Daniel Bruce and Andreas Blombäck. The collection of over 250 pictograms is offered completely free of cost and comes in the form of an icon font — OpenType, TrueType and @font-face as well as in file formats like PSD, EPS and PDF. Along with various generic pictograms, there is also a collection of 46 little social pictograms including sites like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ and the others. The duo offers a helpful character map for you to peruse. The package is offered under a CC BY 3.0 license while the…

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