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

In spite of many options out in the market, Google Analytics continues to be a solid, free and extensive solution for tracking your website’s traffic. There are many different ways you can access your Google Analytics data without visiting their clumsy website, including beautiful iPhone apps like Analytiks and Audience and Dashboard Widgets like GAget and Analytics. Analytics Tiles is another beautiful app to access your Google Analytics stats, but this one comes coated with the Metro flavor that Windows Phone devices are synonymous with. Analytics Tiles, as the name suggests, display your Google Analytics stats in a beautiful, tiled,…

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I know what you’re thinking. Another twitter app? Why would anyone need need another option when the market is already flooded with Twitter apps and when Tweetbot already managed to capture most of it? These thoughts went through my mind too when I first heard about Quip. But once I had the details about the app, I was sold. Quip is a new Twitter app for iPad from the house of Glasshouse Apps. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because they’ve already been featured twice here on Beautiful Pixels — once for Gift Plan and very recently, for The Early…

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Our thanks to VPS Remote for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed. All iXyr Media websites, including Beautiful Pixels and Homescreen.me are hosted on some kick-ass servers at VPS.net and we use VPS Remote app to handle, manage and keep track of those servers. It’s a fantastic app and a great way to handle all your servers without having to open a browser window. ————————————————— VPS Remote is a nifty iPhone app for anyone that hosts a VPS at VPS.net. The app gives you an easy-to-use and simple interface to manage all your VPS.Net servers. Perform critical reboots, view service status…

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Degreees is a small side-project by Stuart Regan and Oleg Tsaplin, the talented duo behind Finely. Designed to be a extremely simple way to glance at the temperature of your current location, Degreees does a phenomenally good job of a minimalistic look at just the relevant information. Degreees uses W3C’s Geolocation API through the browser to automatically locate where you are, and then fetches the temperature, displaying it beautifully in the middle of the screen. The count actually goes from 0 to whatever the temperature is, which is a very nice touch. The web app also displays the name of…

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Shares is a simple iPhone app that lets you keep track of your stocks portfolio. Unlike most other stocks apps out there on the App Store which let you follow the stocks of the companies you are interested in, Shares gives you the option to add how many shares of that company you own and what price did you buy them for. This way, instead of tracking just the cost of each share over time, you actually track the status of your investments. Shares displays all this data in a very beautiful, yet simple and straightforward UI. There are no…

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Regular, light running is the best way to keep your body fit. Go Couch to 5k is the perfect app to get you off the sofa and introduce you to the world of running. Recently released version 2 of the app features one of the most precise GPS-based tracking engine on the App Store. It uses location services to track your distance and pace in near real-time, all displayed in beautiful animated run view. At the end, it generates a map of your track, which you can then upload to a popular runner community, dailymile.com, along with rest of the…

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