Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Overcast — the popular podcast app by Marco Arment was updated to version 3.1 this week, which introduces two interesting features to the app — Standalone Apple Watch Playback and also a Custom Dark Icon for Premium Subscribers. Standalone Apple Watch Playback This feature lets users load podcast episodes (pods?) directly onto their Apple Watch. You need to have the Overcast app installed on your watch, after which you’ll see a new ‘Send to Watch’ option upon tapping the ⁺≡ queue button. Unfortunately, the transfer takes a while to show up on the watch, especially if the episodes are longer.…

Apple’s Environment Page Apple has a new environment page up on their website and it has been beautifully designed. To ask less of the planet, we ask more of ourselves. Climate change is undeniable. Earth’s resources won’t last forever. And technology must be safe for people to make and use. We don’t question these realities — we challenge ourselves to ask what we can do about them in every part of our business. Check it out here

Over the last few months, we’ve been working on a new website — a sister site to Beautiful Pixels. Although the idea itself has been brewing in our heads for a few years now, it was only in late 2016 that we got down to working on it. And today, we’re happy to introduce the newest member of the iXyr Media network — App Icon Gallery. As you’ve probably figured out by now looking at the cool domain name, https://appicon.gallery is a showcase of beautiful app icons. Just like how we write about beautifully designed apps on Beautiful Pixels, App…

Back in 2015, Wunderlist — one of the popular productivity apps that offered apps across the major platforms, announced that the team was joining Microsoft. The Berlin-based team continued building the app over the last couple of years, adding features and integrations to the app. Today, Microsoft has unveiled ‘Microsoft To-Do’ — a new app from the house of Microsoft and the logical successor to Wunderlist. Poised as an “intelligent task management app”, Microsoft To-Do is a completely new app built by the same team as Wunderlist. Microsoft is releasing the app as a ‘Preview’, essentially a public beta of…

Back in January, the folks at Nylas announced that Nylas N1, their flagship email client was being rebranded as Nylas Mail and also introduced a free version of the app, called Nylas Mail Basic. Nylas Mail Basic included most of the features of the Pro version, but was only available for Mac when the announcement was made. The company has today launched Nylas Mail 2.0 — a big release that brings some Pro featured promised in January and also makes the app available to Windows and Linux users. Nylas Mail 2.0 introduces power features such as snoozing, send later, and…

Google Maps 4.30.0 Google today released Google Maps v4.30.0 for iOS that introduces two nifty features in the app — a Today Widget and an iMessage app. The Today Widget allows you to browse and view turn-by-turn directions right on your lockscreen. You can tap small arrows to browse through the entire route, or it auto updates for you. This is great when you are only using the app to stay on track. The iMessage app on the other hand lets you quickly send your current location to your contacts. The app sends your GPS co-ordinates as well as a…