Alfred 3.3 Alfred App is one of the first apps I recommend to anyone either new to the Mac, or wants to get the most of our it. The app is a quintessential productivity app that gives you a powerful toolset for every need. Two of my favorite workflows in the app are to convert currency from USD to INR with a simple c 20 string or to lookup domain names and records with the dig example.com command. Last week, Alfred 3.3 made its way to its users and brought along a fantastic new feature for workflow and snippets users.…
Author: Preshit Deorukhkar
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
ReadKit 2.5 ReadKit for Mac has been my choice of RSS app for over 3 years now and I spend several hours in a day reading through the content it brings to me via FeedBin and Instapaper/Pocket. However, the app’s development had somewhat stagnated in 2016 with lack of updates and bug fix releases, so much so that I was looking for a replacement. Thankfully, the developer has been working on a substantial update over the last few months and version 2.5 of the app is now ready for the Mac App Store. ReadKit 2.5 introduces a new design, a…
If you’re a designer, a front-end developer, or quite simply someone whose line of work involves working with icons (or glyphs), then you know how cumbersome it gets to manage all your icons and icon sets. Storing your icons into folders is not at all ideal, especially when you have icon sets with hundreds and thousands of icons, but only a few useful ones. Iconjar is a Mac app that aims to make things easier for you. Iconjar is a library app that holds all your icons and offers you the flexibility and ease of working with them. Think of…
Fiery Feeds Adds Full Support for BazQux & Wallabag I have been a Fiery Feeds user for a little over three years now. The app has been evolving remarkably well since 2013 and continues to add improvements with every update. Today’s release (v1.9) adds full support for the BazQux Reader — the feed sync service that’s slowly and steadily getting more attention, and wallabag — the self-hosted read-it-later service. This release also adds support for on-demand preview images supplied by the server as well as a bunch of other improvements. Fiery Feeds is available Free on the App Store with…
Magnet Our thanks to the folks at CrowdCafé for sponsoring us this week with Magnet — the phenomenal window manager for Mac. Magnet makes it ridiculously easy to arrange app windows on your Mac into neat pre-set layouts, so that you can compare content or become more productive. It’s hard to explain the genius of Magnet till you actually use it. That moment of delight when windows snap into place with a simple drag of your cursor is something you have to experience. Magnet is available for just $0.99 on the Mac App Store.
Marc Edwards and his Mac App Icon Design Workflow Marc Edwards has been crafting some exceptional apps at Bjango for many years now. Bjango’s iStat suite of apps is an essential addition to my toolkit. Marc has shared his Mac app icon design workflow on the Bjango website today. My favourite Mac app icons are simple enough to be easily read in the Dock, yet they contain interesting details when viewed up close. They have large vibrant areas of colour, yet they contain enough contrast and shading to give them a sense of volume. If you’re a designer or just…