Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Using your phone while driving is never easy. Well, using your phone while driving is not recommended, but there are times when you have to carry out certain actions and it seems like a mammoth task to hit tiny buttons on the screen. It could be a quick message to your wife saying you’d be reaching in 15 minutes or just a simple “I’ve reached, good night.” to your parents. A lot of car owners have Windshield or Dashboard docks for mounting their iPhones, either to navigate or just to make it easy for single-handed use. Drive is an app…

Technology today has made it ridiculously easy to discover, consume and enjoy media content like movies, TV shows, books, apps or just some good music. On any given day, I go through tons of different recommendations from friends & peers or via Twitter or other social networks. It may be a random song recommendation from Mikhail or a new TV Show recommendation from friends — it’s never easy to keep track of all these recommendations. It’s never easy to recollect what your friend had recommended that day and you can’t always take action on them right there either, so you…

There are plenty of tools available on the web to measure and analyze all the traffic a website receives. There are the the popular free ones like Google’s own Analytics service that can handle every big and small website out there but is downright cluttered and confusing for most users and then there are the others like GoSquared, Gauges and Observer (Sad that the project was abandoned) that offer plenty of features along with an easier and customizable UI. On Beautiful Pixels, I primarily use Google Analytics since it has the most number of apps that suit my need. Additionally,…

Back in August, we wrote about Benchwarmer — a brilliant little browser extension for Dribbble that replaces the bland look of ‘New Tabs’ in Chrome and shows you shots from your Dribbble feed or based on a search term of your choice. It is a nifty little tool to have in your browser, specially since it doesn’t make you go to the site and spend time there but instead, shows you the content as you open a new tab. The team behind Benchwarmer has released another such Chrome extension, this time for Instagram. Titled Instatabs, it works exactly like its…

Coffee lovers and connoisseurs have never been far from some excellent content about their favorite brew. Be it sites like Brew Methods, ventures like Ethical Coffee Chain or apps like Barista or Spro — a lot of us take pride in our love for coffee and knowing about the various coffees out there. The Great Coffee App is another stunning coffee app for coffee lovers by the team at Mobile Creators. The app has a gorgeous collection of photos of 17 (including one that you have to unlock by sharing) different coffee cups, along with a short description of each.…

I choose WordPress to build most of my sites. There are numerous reasons for this, the two most notable ones being total control and extensive community support. If you’re stuck at something, you’ll almost always find a solution either on their forums or by someone who’s blogged about it. There are thousands and thousands of free/paid themes and plugins available for WordPress, which makes it a great platform to work on. While WordPress comes with its own web-based control panel that lets you publish and edit content, it also offers an API for native 3rd party clients. Both iOS and…