Author: 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

Ever since the iPad landed at my door-step, I have been looking for an app I could use to manage my daily tasks. I’m a pro-procrastinator and GTD apps have never worked for me. I have Things on my Mac and iPhone and I get some use of them, but I was not going to spend another twenty on the iPad app. Browsing through the App Store and thanks to @jorgeq, I came across Sorted. Sorted is an iPad only list app by Savage Interactive that has so much pixel love given to it, I was drooling all over within…

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The iXyr team finally finally—finally!—got their iPads, and have been busy all weekend devouring all kinds of apps on the next revolution in personal computing. We had a friend in the US order the iPads from the Apple Online Store (which ship out from China), after which he re-routed them to the mysterious and magical lands of India. To help us salivate throughout its travels, we had the help of one hell of an awesome service, Junecloud’s Delivery Status. Delivery status is an app/service from Junecloud that lets you track your shipments and packages from various shipping/logistics companies or online…

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I first came across Epicurious when I signed up for a Premium account on Ars Technica. One of the many websites owned by Conde Nast Digital, Epicurious is a collection of Recipes, Menus, Food Guides, pretty much everything about food and drinks. The website also has apps for iPhone and iPad and boy are they delicious. The apps bring easy access to an abundance of recipes and yummy content through some very lick-able pixels. The app isn’t only good looking though, and offers plenty of functionality. You can find recipes by ingredient type, occasion or just browse through the huge…

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A few days ago, we took you on a tour through the secret designer community of idzr and even though the site remains out of bounds for many of you, the screenshots managed to colour you impressed. Not wanting to stop at that, we bring you the Artist Profile of Na Wong, the brilliance behind idzr. Na is a 28-year-old from Hong Kong, who, surprisingly enough, hasn’t had any formal training in design. His journey begins back in 2000, when he applied for a job as a clerk. Having seen some of his websites, the company hired him as a…

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Server Density is a web service to easily monitor the statistics of your web-server. From their site, Easy server monitoring Monitor CPU load, memory, processes, disk usage, network traffic, Apache, MySQL & Nginx. Keep an eye on your servers and get e-mail, SMS & iPhone alerts when things go wrong.

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