Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Meet Pokki. Pokki is an app a program for Windows 7 that allows you to install special HTML5 apps onto your System Taskbar. These work like native apps and also feature local notification alerts. Currently in beta, Pokki already has custom designed apps for Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Wall Street and eBay. The Gmail Pokki in particular is extremely beautiful. Designed by Julien Renvoye, it features just the right blend of aesthetics, icon and pixel love. Compared to the native Gmail UI (not counting the new Preview theme), this Gmail pokki is a lot more elegant and using it just feels…

If you use Google Analytics on any of your websites, here’s a dashboard widget that should totally exists on your Mac. Developed by Zoltan Hosszu (which, btw, is a really cool first name), GAget is a beautiful Google Analytics widget for OS X. This gadget widget gives you a quick overview of important statistics like the number of visits for the last two weeks and lets you see the rate of new visitors. You can easily switch between different profiles of the same account and view one, two or four weeks’ data within the widget. GAget is available free from…

A majority of people I know have either transitioned over to Reeder — the fantastic RSS Reader app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, or Flipboard — the excellent magazine-style iPad app. So was there any space left in the market for another entrant? There sure was, at least the developer of Mr. Reader thought so. And I’m glad he did. Mr. Reader is a powerful RSS news reader app for the iPad that synchronizes with Google Reader & brings the full functionality on your iPad. It takes a very elegant and aesthetic approach in its design and is just as…

Over the last 1.5 years, Beautiful Pixels has grown into a wonderful community of loyal visits of the website, over 11,000 RSS Subscribers and over 4500 Twitter followers. For a long time, we’ve had very minimal advertising on the site — just a beautiful, single ad block in the sidebar. We were recently accepted into the Carbons Ads Design community, and we’ve been displaying their ads on our site this past month. It’s very likely that you wouldn’t have even noticed the change because the ads that they carry are just as beautiful as the ones we were running —…

These delicious little tags pictured above are the fine work of Thomas Bossée, a designer from Belgium. Titled ‘Sliding Tags’ by him, these scrumptious pixels were posted by him on his Dribbble account yesterday. When you hover over them, the tags are designed to reveal a count by elegantly sliding out — much like a chocolate bar slides out of its wrapper. Developer Mike Carter has then gone onto create a live demo of these in action. The way the tags appear slowly, one by one inside the panel just looks marvelous. Fine details like the ease-in and ease-out in…

Here’s the newest kid on a block that’s already populated by a large number of photo-sharing apps for the iPhone. The iPhone makes a great pocket camera, so it’s not surprising that many big and small companies want to put out apps that take a bite out of it. Photovine is a gorgeous new app that functions very much like Piictu. In Photovine, when you post/upload a photo for the first time, it starts a “vine” of sorts where other people on the service can add their own photos to the vine that fit the title. So if I start…