Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

There’s no scarcity of IM apps on the App Store. From official apps like Yahoo, AIM and Skype to multi-protocol apps like IM+ and Beejive, there’s enough choice for all kinds of users. But good looking IM clients so far there have been none. Verbs is the new kid on the block and brings to the table two lovely things: elegant aesthetics and Cloud App integration. Being developed by Chaitanya at #Include Tech with the graphics designed by the lovely Alan van Roemburg, Verbs features some stunning pixels on every screen. The app only supports GoogleTalk protocol for now, but…

RMK Voices is an Australian Voice Artists’ management company that has a mammoth collection of voice and performing artists under their umbrella. Every artist has his own compilation and audio samples available for people to listen to and get shortlisted. And what better way to make it super easy to take their voices to thousand of people than the App Store. RMK VOices have just released their iPhone app, simply called RMK Voices. The App, designed by Blind Mice Studios, has a brilliant retro look and feel to it. RMK Studios say they used to distribute compilations on cassettes (remember…

We’ve already covered Kaleidoscope, the file comparison app from the folks at Sofa, here on Beautiful Pixels. When the app came out, Milind was in awe looking at the app’s webpage and claimed that it was more beautiful than the app itself. But me, on the other hand, was quite impressed by the app’s icon. The unusually nice blend of colors in the icon, with the rotating, color changing animation of it on the webpage had me looking staring at it continuously. Today, Jasper Hauser, Sofa’s designer explains their thought process and what went into the making of the Kaleidoscope…

If you’ve been following this blog, or know the who’s who in the design community, there’re no way that you haven’t heard about Marcelo Marfil. Marcelo has worked on some incredible designs in the past that we’ve featured on this blog and we even brought you the artist profile of the man himself. Marcelo is at it again, this time with Jubilee, a gorgeous new app for iPad, developed in concert with Vemedio, the same guys who brought you Snowtape. The app lets you manage your friends’ birthdays on your iPad, and Push-notifies you of upcoming birthdays that you’re likely…

A few months ago, a very special email dropped into my Inbox. “Dear Mayor McPreshit,”, it greeted me. I was one of the very few lucky recipients of that email, one of the very few who were selected to test drive an update to the internet’s oldest known, possibly the most beautiful Truck. Originally known as Transit, the gorgeous and powerful Truck went through hundreds of bug fixes and enhancements and was finally unveiled to the public on April 27th, 2010. The brilliant folks at Panic, arguably the most loved Mac software development firm on the internet today, had put…

Zander Martineau, a freelance Web Designer and Developer from London, has put up some rather splendid icons up on his blogsite. These icons, however, have been created entirely using just CSS, using some of the newer features of CSS3 such as gradients and rotation. Since these are built upon completely open standards, you can view the source and study how they were created; a great learning experience. If that’s not the way you like to learn things, Zander has also chalked up an explanation for each icon and how he created them. Pure CSS Icons