Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Here’s a beautiful icon set by designer Kenny Williams. Available in three scaleable sets, Uicons is a fantastic collection of 348 different icons that you can use virtually anywhere. While two of the sets, ‘Original’ and ‘Scribble’ are readily available for download, the third — @Fontface is currently under development being designed. Available for $20 and payable via Paypal, Ken promises that all future updates will be free. Head over to the site and check them out.

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you’ve already purchased the new iPad and are absolutely in love with its stunning Retina display with 3.1 million pixels fit into just 9.7″ of screen estate. What’s that? It has a higher pixel density than an HD TV? Of course, you’d want a lovely wallpaper to shine on that screen, don’t you? Although the new iPad has been out for just a few days, there are already many beautiful and unique backgrounds and homescreen wallpapers out there. We thought this would be the perfect time to put together another roundup…

Byword is an exceptional writing app for Mac that has just been released for iOS as well. It is one of the few “distraction-free apps” that is simple, elegant and yet features an unmatched level of polish. At its core, Byword is a simple text editor. It provides a beautiful and elegant on-screen environment to write in and is a fabulous tool for long-form writing. The app was first launched for OS X a few months ago and was a great alternative to iA Writer. The Mac app offers both a Windowed mode and Lion’s native fullscreen mode. You also…

Who knew photographing water droplets was this interesting and beautiful? Meet Markus Reugels. This father of two has an exceptional skill of talking photographs of perfectly timed water droplets that bounce forming weirdly interesting shapes, which are then shot with differently colored LED lights and photographed. What this results in some of the most stunning liquid art you may ever come across. Markus has an extensive gallery of his work over on his Flickr account or his website. Also see Aqueous Fluoreau — Spectacular Underwater Ink Photographs by Mark Mawson. [Via This is Colossal]

There are plenty of iTunes replacement apps out there. We’ve covered a few of those right here on Beautiful Pixels. So I wasn’t surprised when I came across Sonora. But after getting a good look at its UI and playing with it for a few minutes, I realized there’s a lot more to this app than I’d imagined. Sonora is a beautiful, elegant and a simple, yet featured-packed audio player app for your Mac that boasts, “It’s time to love your music again”. Unlike the boring, unchanged UI of iTunes, Sonora brings a much needed and refreshing approach to an…

Analytiks app is a completely new approach to viewing Google Analytics on the iPhone. Instead of recreating the web experience of Google Analytics on a small screen, Analytiks focuses on metrics that matter the most. Analytiks will show your site’s pageviews for Today along with the percentage rise compared to yesterday. It also shows you the pageviews for the current month and will neatly segregate traffic originating via Facebook, Twitter and Google. Turning your iPhone from portrait to landscape, pageviews and unique visitors are laid out on a beautiful graph. On top of that, Analytiks offers a powerful function for…