Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

In the image above, on the left is what Beautiful Pixels looked like in Google Currents after I had just flipped the switch and enabled the the feed in the app. It wasn’t yet listed in the app and you had to specifically search and subscribe to it. To my delight, a few weeks later, our edition was approved and listed in the ‘Design’ category in the app. Since then, I’ve seen a steady rise in our subscriber count, even seeing a quick glimpse of it in the Google I/O keynote where they introduced the Nexus 7 tablet. On the…

Pattrn is a simple and elegant wallpaper app for Android devices that pulls gorgeous (or at times chaotic) wallpapers created by the amazing COLOURlovers community and displays in the app, giving you the ability to browse through some amazing pattern-based wallpapers from the site. Pattrn features a minimalistic ICS standard UI and is very quick in fetching the wallpaper data. It’s also quite responsive in the interactions and doesn’t feel laggy at all. Not only can you browse though the latest and popular wallpapers from COLORlovers, you can also tap on each wallpaper to view the colors used in it…

Kara Zichittella and Andrew McCarthy have come together to design a beautiful set of app icons that can be used to replace the default icons on a Mac. The icons are very flat and minimal but with just enough detail in them to have their own identity. There’s no unnecessary colors, shadows or gradients in these apps. The icon set is named .app.icns and contains 20 high-quality, beautifully designed icons for the following apps. Finder Dashboard Mail iTunes iPhoto Preview Sticky Notes TextEdit Chrome Safari Firefox Skype iChat Calendar Contacts Quicktime Activity Monitor Trash VLC Candybar Of course, you could…

“What’s this? Another Weather app on Beautiful Pixels, what’s going on?” There’s a good chance a few of you may have exclaimed that after reading the title of the post or our tweet. We agree that we often feature a LOT of weather apps here on the site, but that’s only because there are a TON of good looking weather apps being developed for iOS and Android. Thanks to our love of beautiful pixels, we simply cannot resist featuring the work of some talented designers and developers and giving them the exposure they deserve. A few weeks ago, I came…

In spite of having a good GPS, the iPad didn’t ship with a Compass app like on the iPhone. Apple doesn’t bundle a Compass app with iOS for the iPad, which is something that bothered Eric Birgel when he bought his new Retina iPad a few months ago. Some would argue that it’d be stupid to carry around such a huge device to use as a compass, but Eric saw an opportunity. So he built Simply North — a super simple compass app for iOS that works both on the iPad and iPhone Simply North’s most striking feature is its…

Have you ever wished you had a super simple way to keep track of important events? Events like Birthdays, Business or Travel trips or even work deadlines? Sure, you could use a calendar to mark those or a powerful GTD app. The beauty of the App Store is that there really is an app for that. Pronto is a beautiful app from the fine folks at Createful, based in Bournemouth that lets you easily keep track of important upcoming events. It essentially is a simple lists app, but one that’s build with some very pretty pixels. There’s a very distinguishable…