Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Sidebar 2.0 Sidebar.io has been a lovely little project by Sacha Greif, something that he began working on almost four years ago. The idea was simple — showcase the five best design links of the day, every day. Although the project had taken a backseat over the last few months, Sacha is today launching Sidebar 2.0 a huge revamp of the site. He details the thought process behind the relaunch as well as what’s new in the Medium post here. You should definitely check out the new Sidebar and subscribe to the newsletter.

Goodshows for Android Goodshows is a lovely iOS app to discover new movies and TV Shows, as well as to discuss anything you’re currently watching, with your friends and followers. We wrote about Goodshows last month and last week, Goodshows made its way to Android as well. The app carries a familiar look and feel on Android and lets you do everything you can in the iPhone app. When we wrote about the iOS App, we said that apps like it largely depend on how many of your friends and followers are using it, so with the Android availability, you’re…

Clipboard managers are immensely helpful and powerful tools for your day-to-day work. Once you get used to having your clipboard history at your disposal, you’ll realize how faster and easier it is to get things done. Last year, we told you about Paste — a terrific clipboard manager for Mac. A year later, the devs have released a humongous update to it, and having used Paste 2 over the last few days, it has quickly made it to our list of must-have apps for Mac. Paste 2.0 improves upon not just the shortcomings of the first version, but also introduces…

Procreate 3.1 for iPad Savage Interactive has just released Version 3.1 of Procreate — the phenomenally powerful app to sketch, paint and create wonderful work of art on an iPad. Procreate has by far been one of the best apps creative apps to get on an iPad and with today’s release, it’s getting better than ever. The folks at SI are calling it their “biggest update of 2016!”. Version 3.1 ships with features such as Streamline, Quick Menu, Automatic Selection, Better Canvas Creation, a Modify button for the Eyedropper tool, Advanced Gesture Controls, Tilt customizer for the Apple Pencil, Video…

I have waited a really long time to write this. Six years ago, we introduced you to Homescreen.me — the third website on the iXyr Media network. We started off with Smoking Apples, the now defunct Apple blog in 2007 and then in 2009, we went on to launch Beautiful Pixels — this very site that you’re reading this on. Following that, we announced Homescreen.me — a simple way to share your homescreens and discover new apps. Today, we’re delighted to announce an all new Homescreen.me. We have completely re-built the website from scratch to be a place where iOS…

Back in 2011, we told you about Silk — an experimental project in generative art by Yuri Vishnevsky. It was a stunning example of what could be achieved using HTML5’s <canvas> element and back then, as I stood in awe, I always wondered what could be achieved had this been implemented natively on iOS. Unfortunately, I somehow lost track of the project up until a few days ago, when Devin, one of our regular readers, emailed us about Silk 2 on the App Store. Silk 2 not only answers the question I had back in 2011, but it also goes…