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

Vellum Adds New Premium IAP @ $1.99 We’re big fans of Vellum here. It’s a lovely little app that delivers some amazing wallpapers for iPhone and has been growing its collection over the last few months. Vellum added a new ‘Daily Wallpapers’ section back in May and last month, introduced a $0.99 option to disable the ads in the app that we’ve complained about. In an update released today, Vellum has replaced the $0.99 IAP with a new $1.99 ‘Premium’ IAP that not just disables the ads, but also gives you access to the last four weeks of Daily Wallpapers…

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For as long as I can remember, every time someone asked me the question, “Hey! Do you know a good FTP app for Mac?” my standard response to that has been to point them to Panic’s Transmit app. Panic has been making really good apps for consumers for almost two decades now, and I’ve personally been witness to their astounding ability to ship incredible & pixel-perfect apps for about a decade. The company is known for their popular apps like Transmit, Coda, Prompt and of course, Firewatch the game. Their apps have made it to our Editor’s Choice Awards of…

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Shotsgram is a Dribble app for iOS and Apple Watch that we wrote about back in 2015. It was intricately crafted and offered a lovely experience when browsing Dribble. Shotsgram was one of the best Dribbble apps out there for iOS and Apple Watch. The developers LittleBigCode have today released Version 2.0 of the app that introduces a redesigned UI to the app, along with a bunch of new features and improvements. Version 2.0 introduces a visual refresh to the app, getting rid of the dark tab bar & navigation bar, and replaces them with flat whites. Certain UI elements…

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Fantastical 2.4 for Mac Flexibits today released Fantastical 2.4 for Mac — a major update to the popular calendar app for Mac that brings some much-requested and power-packed features to the app. Fantastical 2.4 for Mac introduces features like travel time notifications, attachments, ability to combine identical events across multiple calendars, improvements to the month view, and a bunch of other improvements across the board. This is a free update to existing Fantastical 2 users, and the app is available for $50 on the Mac App Store.

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Earlier this year, we wrote about IconJar — a fantastic Mac app to organize and manage all your icon sets. It’s a great utility for designers and front-end developers who work with a lot of icon sets, especially considering how well the app manages to handled everything you throw at it. It retails for just $20, so it’s quite an easy buy. Similarly, Iconfinder is a lovely online resource where you can find a ton of icons for all kinds of work. The site holds a vast collection of icons, all of them neatly named, categorized and tagged. Iconfinder yesterday…

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Objective Development — the Austrian software development studio known for their popular Mac apps like Launchbar, Little Snitch and Micro Snitch, have today announced the launch of Little Snitch 4 — a major update to the popular network firewall app for Mac. This release comes in five years after the release of Little Snitch 3 and brings along a bunch of new features and improvements. For the uninitiated, Little Snitch is a Mac app that monitors the network activity on your Mac (all incoming and outgoing connections) and lets you control which apps, processes or services are able to connect…

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