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

Mac

Readdle’s Spark seems to be everyone’s favorite email client these days. It made its debut with phenomenal apps for iOS (including a watchOS app) as well as macOS just last year and it has only gotten better since then. I’ve completed moved from Airmail to Spark as my primary email client and it has been a fantastic daily companion so far. Readdle has today released version 1.2 for the macOS version of Spark that introduces better email management features, so that you can bring order to the chaos in your mailbox. Labels Spark 1.2 for Mac adds support for Labels.…

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Squarespace Circle Many thanks to our friends at Squarespace for sponsoring us this week with Squarespace Circle — the newest offering from the company for customers who build using Squarespace. If you are a creative professional who builds Squarespace websites for friends or clients, you can become a part of the Squarespace Circle program and enjoy a number of benefits. Most notably, as a Squarespace Circle member, you get a six-month trial period instead of the normal 14-day period, more than enough for you to complete building the website before being charged for it. You also get a 20% discount…

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This week, we’re super excited to be introducing a new series here on Beautiful Pixels called The Roundup. Published every Friday, the Roundup brings you a collection of some incredible designs from across the web in the form of UI concepts, visual designs, illustrations, icons, etc. Every day, we come across amazing examples of beautiful, creative and inspiring work done by designers across the globe and this is our way of highlighting some of that for you, our readers. We hope you enjoy The Roundup and as always, if you have any feedback or suggestions, we’re always eager to hear…

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Cortana 2.0 for iOS Cortana — Microsoft’s own take on digital assistants is also available on Android and iOS devices. Back in December, Microsoft announced that the app, which was US-only at launch, would also be coming to the UK and at the same time, would also be getting a complete visual makeover. This redesign was available immediately on Android app, but wasn’t available for iOS until today. Version 2.0 of the Cortana app for iOS is now available on the App Store and introduces a complete redesign of the UI, along with a redesigned calling, texting and reminders screens,…

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YouTube has become an amazingly rich source for some exceptional music out there. Passionate musicians all around the globe have been uploading their work to YouTube over the last decade and there’s countless hours of great music there. While a good part of this is original music, YouTube is also home to some lovely covers. Cover songs — songs that are performed by someone other than the original artist are a great way to get started for a lot of musicians and if you like listening to this kind of music, Covers is a great way to get started for…

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Project Phoenix Successfully Funded Project Phoenix — The Iconfactory’s ambitious Kickstarter project to revive Twitterrific for Mac that we wrote about last month has now reached its funding goal of $75,000. This means that we’ll definitely see an all new version of Twitterrific for Mac soon, with an early beta expected to hit the campaign’s backers in a few months. That said, the campaign still has 8 more days to go before it ends and we’re hoping it meets its first stretch goal of $100,000, failing which the app won’t have DM support in the initial release. Check out Project…

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