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

Today Weather Today Weather is a beautifully crafted weather website by Matt Birchler, who’s also behind the lovely iOS wallpapers for Firewatch. The site was designed to be fast, lean and easy to use and thanks to its responsive nature, it looks great on any modern device you browse it from. The information it displays is neatly structured, and even the charts look beautiful. It sources its data from the Dark Sky API, so it’s already got one of the best backends there is. We’ve looked at many different weather apps here on Beautiful Pixels, but this is one website…

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Every year at WWDC, Apple has some really clever artwork on display for the attendees that celebrates the Million+ apps in the iOS ecosystem. This year, at WWDC 2016, Apple had a massive wall comprised of colorful text with clever phrases related to apps. There’s a very good chance someone on Twitter on Twitter timeline posted or retweeted a photo of this wall during the WWDC week. Here’s what it looked like: Hello, wall of text #wwdc pic.twitter.com/YuLbIvvetS— Andreas Muth (@amx01b) June 14, 2016 Inspired by it and powered by a simple case of curiosity, Martin Conte Mac Donell from…

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Ever come across an iOS or Mac app that you want to download, but for some reason cannot download it at that very moment? How about that amazing new game that has just come out, but you’re out traveling and can’t spend your precious mobile data on downloading the 1GB+ file? Lookmark aims to makes this easy for you. Lookmark is an intelligently crafted iPhone app that helps you bookmark content from iTunes for later. It doesn’t just work with apps, but also with movies, music, books, etc. It’s essentially a bookmarking app that’s tuned specifically for this purpose, and…

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Letterpress — the hugely popular game that debuted back in 2012 has just landed on the Mac. Letterpress was originally developed by Loren Brichter, who is popularly known as the creator of Tweetie — the Twitter client that Twitter ended up buying for themselves and later ruin, and for the ‘Pull to Refresh’ software implementation that’s become a norm in almost all apps these days. Just like his previous efforts, Letterpress went on to achieve massive success and quickly became an addictive game that everyone was playing. Fast forward to a few months ago, when the game was acquired by…

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The Pixelmator Team has yesterday released Version 2.3 of Pixelmator for iOS that introduces two new impressive features to the app — Quick Selection Tool and Magnetic Selection Tool. Ever since its debut on iOS, Pixelmator has been one of, if not the most essential apps to have on your iPhone or iPad for editing photos or images. The Pixelmator Team has continued to add some incredible features to the app and it’s easy to forget that all this is capable on an iOS device. With Version 2.3, Pixelmator now gains the same selection tool capabilities that were introduced in…

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Shift 1.1 Shift is a Time Zone Converter and Meeting Scheduler app that we wrote about back in April this year. Available for both iOS and Android at a Dollar each, Shift beautifully handles all your scheduling needs across time zones. Today, the app has been updated to Version 1.1 that introduces some really nifty features to the app. The biggest change is the addition of Natural Language Processing, which lets you create new events with ease. You can also now sign in with your Facebook or Slack accounts, and thus, manage your invitations directly on the web as well.

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