Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

NFN Labs is a small design-driven team from Chennai, India known for crafting some beautifully designed apps and websites over the last 5 years. The company is best known for their apps like Storm It, Water, Demonstrate and Screeny — all of which have been featured here on Beautiful Pixels, as well as their other projects such as BuySell Tickets and of course, Homescreen.me. Today, the folks at NFN Labs have launched — nfnlabs.design — a new site to offer free goodies like wallpapers, icon packs, UI Kits, tutorials to any visitors. The site currently offers nine beautifully illustrated wallpapers…

Anchor Pointer is the lovely GPS Compass app for iPhone that we first wrote about back in July 2014. The app lets you drop pins anchors on a map to bookmark those locations, and then helps you point towards them using the compass, so that you can navigate your way easily. The first version of the app was really nicely done with a simple and elegant UI and worked really well. A few days ago, Anchor Pointer was updated to version 2.0. This isn’t a humongous update to the app, bur rather an evolutionary one that makes the app more…

Letterpress 3.0 Introduces Chat, Statistics, and more Letterpress, the insanely popular turn-based game originally developed by atebits (Loren Brichter) and acquired by Solebon, LLC earlier this year before debuting on the Mac has today been updated to Version 3.0 for iPhone and iPad. Letterpress 3.0 introduces some much requested features, such as Chat, detailed statistics for the head-to-head matches, and universal Leaderboards. There’s also a new 5-Day turn limit. This version also apparently enables upgrades for everyone and unlocks features like the ability to view played words, themes and also removes the 2-match restriction for Free users. Letterpress is available…

The next-gen web browser, Maxthon’s MX5, released its official version on October 27th after a successful beta trial testing the browser series’ newest features. The improved Maxnote (named Infobox in the beta version) is an all-in-one bookmarking, note-taking, and screen-shot saving feature that ensures you’ll never forget why you saved those webpages again. This combined with MX5’s password-saving Passkeeper and spam-filtering UUMail make MX5 a user-friendly, new wave of browser that is guaranteed to change the way you surf the web. The PC version of MX5 boasts Android-integrated Cloud sharing and the returning Split Screen feature that make MX5 a…

Yoink App on Sale @ $1.99 Yoink, the brilliant app that simplifies drag-and-drop gestures on your Mac is currently on sale @ $1.99 as part of TwoDollarTuesday. Every time you’re trying to drag and drop files or folders between apps or windows, Yoink will casually display a small window from the edge of your screen, so that you can temporarily drop these files onto it. You can then use your mouse pointer to interact with other elements, such as bringing another window into view or perform an operation — say creating a new folder and naming it what you want,…

Google has today announced the 2016 winners of the company’s prestigious Material Design Awards. Introduced last year, the Material Design Awards honor the efforts taken by app developers in embracing and embodying the Material Design principles. Announcing this year’s winners on the Google Design blog, Rich Fulcher, the Lead UX Designer @ Google, writes: A design system only comes to life when it’s used to create meaningful experiences. Last year, Google introduced the Material Design Awards to recognize best-in-class achievements in employing Material Design. This effort extends beyond our direct team as well—earlier this year, at Google I/O 2016, Robinhood…