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

If you’ve ever found yourself looking for a quick way to carry out percentage calculations on the go, Percent Mate is here to help you. Percent Mate is an app that’s designed exclusively to help you with percentage calculations. It comes in two variants — Percent Mate — an iPhone-only app and Percent Mate Wearable — an app for Apple Watch. Percent Mate is designed for calculations of (sales) growth rates, climb rate s(RoC), response rates (returns, complaints), weight loss/gain, volume discounts, savings goals, ROI, profit vs. costs, tolerances, fees, discounts, rebates, interest, debt, taxes, VAT (Value Added Tax: in…

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Dribbble is one of the most popular design communities on the web. Every day, tens of thousands of users come to the site to post the designs that they’ve been working on, and other users from the site leave their comments on them. Although browsing the content is free, it still remains an invite-only community if you’re looking to post your own designs or comment on the work of others. Founded in 2009, Dribbble has evolved greatly over the last few years, introducing a host of features and improvements to the site to cater to its vocal community. Although Dribbble…

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Reddit User Analyser is a beautifully designed single-purpose-website that, as the name suggests, analyzes a Reddit user. It uses the Reddit API and goes through your activity on Reddit, analyzing your submissions and comments, and returns fascinating data about your account and illustrates it beautifully on the same page. The project is built by Github user atomiks and makes uses of lovely colors & graphs to visualize the data. It looks at things like Kindness, Text complexity, the top and most frequented subreddits, submission & comment activity & karma, as well as the controversiality of the account. Here’s a peek…

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Last week, I stumbled across an insanely beautiful set of vector icons on Twitter called Ego Icons. The name sounded very familiar to me, and I was sure I had written about them here on Beautiful Pixels, but I couldn’t find any reference or link to them at all on the site. It took me a while to find out that I’d included Ego Icons in our weekly newsletter feature ‘The Platter’, specifically, in the April 26th, 2015 edition a little over two years ago. Back then, designer Vincent Le Moign was still working on them and had released the…

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Ever since Apple shipped iOS 10 last September, and along with it the ability to add stickers to your iMessage conversations, we’ve seen all kinds of sticker packs debut on the iMessage Store. We’ve already told you about our favorite sticker packs for iOS 10 and we’ve also written about some beautiful stickers packs that have debuted recently, like the Design Feedback Sticker Pack and the lovely sticker pack that ships with Fantastical for iOS. Today, we’re featuring a sticker pack that offers a fun take on some Silicon Valley buzzwords and phrases you typically hear — Nerd Lingo. Introducing…

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iShows Adds a Landscape Mode My favorite apps to track TV Shows and Movies are iShows TV and iShows Movies respectively. Although there are several alternatives available out there, I prefer the overall experience that the iShows apps offer and have stuck to them through the years. After recently adding a new ‘Watch Now!’ feature to the app that lets you instantly know where a TV show is available for streaming, the developers have now finally added a landscape mode to the app. Yep, the app was only available in a Portrait design before this update, even on iPad. The…

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