YouTube has announced some big changes to the service today, most notable being an all new Logo. The company has ditched the ‘Tube’ inside the Tube and now sports a slightly updated look. Here’s a GIF comparing the old logo with the new one: Designed for our multi-screen world, the updated Logo combines a cleaned up version of the YouTube wordmark and Icon, creating a more flexible design that works better across a variety of devices, even on the tiniest screens. Why’s it more flexible? When room is limited (say on a smartphone) you can use the brightened up Icon…
Author: Preshit Deorukhkar
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
Panda is a “superminimal” dark Syntax Theme for a variety of coding IDEs and Terminals created by Siamak Mokhtari. It features a dark background and some lovely subtle colors to make your code look elegant and pleasing to the eyes. The theme is specially crafted for the Atom editor, but you can also download versions for the macOS Terminal.app, iTerm, Sublime Text, and a few other apps. Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be a version for Panic’s Coda yet. Get Panda Syntax Dark Theme. About these At a Glance posts: ‘At a Glance’ is a new type of post we’re…
Our friends at Bjango posted this app icon for the upcoming major release of iStat Menus. iStat Menus is one of the first apps I install on a new Mac, and comes highly recommended from us. If you’d like to help Bjango by testing the app, you can sign up for a beta here. Here’s how the app icon has evolved since the first release: About these At a Glance posts: ‘At a Glance’ is a new type of post we’re introducing on Beautiful Pixels. These will usually be short posts with little to no text content, and will feature…
Recall is a really beautiful Android app for creating simple reminders. Created by Felix Jamestin, it does a fantastic job of letting you create reminders in mere seconds and doesn’t bother you with unnecessary options or settings. Recall presents you with a simple text field to describe what you want to be reminded about, and optionally, when. You can quickly type something and hit the ‘Save item’ button and your reminder is added to the list. Just below the text field are preset options to choose from, such as 1 hour later, 2 hours later, 3 hours later, Tomorrow 8…
Pushpin for Pinboard is our favorite Pinboard app for iPhone and iPad. It offers a lovely mix of simplicity and elegance, combined with a great set of features. Ever since the complete overhaul of the app with Version 3.0, Pushpin has been an easy recommendation for anyone looking for a Pinboard app for iOS. And with the offline support introduced in Version 4.0, Pushpin has become the best Pinboard client out there. The developers just dropped v4.1.2 on the App Store last night that seems like an incremental update, but actually, brings along a host of new goodies and improvements.…
If you take a lot of photos and videos on your iPhone or iPad and share them with your friends, colleagues or on social media, Metapho is a must-have app for you. No, it isn’t another photo editing app or the newest set of filters. Metapho is actually a fantastic iOS app that helps you take control of the meta data that’s stored in every photo or video you take. We wrote about the app in December 2014 when it had just hit the App Store. The photos you take using your smartphone’s camera contain much more than just the…