Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Here’s an interesting project we came across a couple of days ago. Devin Halladay — a designer and writer from Baltimore has crafted a complete visual overhaul of the Spotify Mac app that makes it look and feel more like the Rdio app — the music streaming service that Pandora acquired a few months ago. The Spotify app on Mac features only a Dark UI and while it looks great, this sure is an interesting way to theme it. Why exactly did Devin do this? Let him explain: I sorely miss Rdio. It was the perfect music streaming service: quality…

These days, Readdle has made a name for itself when it comes to apps that involve documents. The company makes some of the best apps out there, like Documents for handling your documents from various sources, Scanner Pro for scanning your documents, Printer Pro for printing documents, Spark for email, and PDF Office, PDF Expert and PDF Convertor for all your PDF needs. This week, Readdle introduces PDF Expert 2 — a gigantic update to the powerful and robust PDF Editor for Mac. PDF Expert 2 introduces four major features to the app that make it one of the best…

Pinterest Acquires Instapaper Instapaper — one the two popular read-it-later services today has today announced that it has been acquired by Pinterest. Betaworks bought Instapaper from Marco Arment about three years ago and since then, the team has added a bunch of improvements and polish to the app. Post acquisition, the Instapaper team will be moving to Pinterest’s HQ in San Francisco from their current base in New York. Although Pinterest says that Instapaper will continue to be a separate app, the company is announcing that it will be shutting down Instaparser — their text parsing tool for developers. As…

With the growth of social media and increased quality of phone camera, we are taking more pictures than ever. Yet, for the past decade, the process of organizing photos have remained pretty much the same: create folders, select photos to put in, create another folder, select photos… Sometimes it’s awkward to create a folder for just one or two photos, and if you were to look for a photo on a spot, you would be scrolling, squinting your eyes, looking for that one photo amongst thousands. Taggle is a photo gallery app that solves this problem. Unlike other native gallery…

Contacts Pad Our thanks to the folks at Think Code Release for sponsoring Beautiful Pixels this week with Contacts Pad. Contacts Pad offers an easy way to keep your most frequently used contacts grouped together and lets you easily communicate with them using apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, etc. In just a few taps, you can select who you want to contact and via which app — it’s that easy. Contacts Pad is available for just $1.99 on the App Store.

Following the success of the immensely popular games Hitman GO and Lara Croft GO, Square Enix Montréal is back with another insanely good turn-based puzzle adventure in its GO series of games with Deus Ex GO. Based off of the Deus Ex franchise, the game entails the covert agent Adam Jensen as he tries to infiltrate with the use of his hacking, combat and augmentation skills. The game ships with over 50 levels and the studio says that a new puzzle will be added every weekday. Deus Ex GO keeps you hooked and is just as fun as the previous…