Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

There are thousands of Twitter apps out there today. In fact, Twitter announced last month that it now officially has one million registered twitter apps. Twitter has also seen a substantial growth in the number of tweets sent out daily by its users. There are lots of twitter apps that let you manage your timeline, either by filtering the content or taking a different approach altogether. But what about when you just want to tweet something out, without bothering to get lost in the timeline? Yes, there are apps that do just this too. But none comes close to being…

For the longest time, I’ve been a Simplenote premium subscriber and have been pretty happy using the app and service for all my needs. It’s a nifty little app that gives you a clean, clutter-free interface to manage your notes and while there have been numerous other apps for keeping notes on the App Store, nothing really caught my attention. But then I came across Notefile. Notefile is an app by Junecloud, the same folks who’ve brought to you Delivery Status Touch in the past. Notefile brings the same kind of finesse to the table that Junecloud is known for.…

Here comes along another photo-sharing app for your iPhone. And yes, this features some stunning pixels as well. vvall is a photo-sharing app that lets you bring photos from you and your friends to a central location. The photos are organized automagically into daily events, so you can browse through the photos of a particular event from multiple sources. The app lets you import photos from popular services like Instagram, Picplz, DailyBooth and even lets you backup your photos to Dropbox. Yes, you can ‘heart’ each photo too and leave a comment as well. The app seemed a little slow…

In my opinion, Command+Ctrl+D is still one of the most nifty shortcuts in Mac OS X, more so when you’re not a native English speaker. I was happy to see the same being introduced systemwide in iOS 5. But availability of iOS 5 is still a few months away and we’ve only seen Beta 1 land into the hands of developers (and countless other “enthusiasts”). We recently got an email introducing us to Definition, a sexy dictionary app for your iPhone and iPad. The app features a gorgeous skeuomorphic UI and looking up words is quick and easy. The UI…

Subtle Patterns is an amazing little project by Atle Mo that features high-quality design patters. These patterns are available for free, both for personal and commercial use. The patterns can obviously be tiled and are not only made available as .png downloads, but the site also offers a Photoshop pattern file for all the patterns. Presently, the site has 36 patterns available for download, but you can also Submit your own pattern or support the project by making a donation.

I stumbled upon NowPlayer a few days ago on Twitter, and it didn’t take me long before I was convinced that it deserved a place here on Beautiful Pixels. NowPlayer is a beautiful music player app for your iPhone and iPod touch that lets you share what you’re listening to, on Twitter, Facebook or via Email. The app supports customization options in the form of 2 UI Styles (Light and Minimalist) and 7 Album Artwork Themes, all of which are spectacularly designed. You can even set up a custom background. The app lets you fully control your music through gestures,…