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

Apple’s WWDC 2016 is just over a week away and there’s already talk of a very software-focussed keynote, as Apple is expected to reveal the next major versions of macOS OS X, iOS, tvOS and watchOS. We have to wait and see what Tim Cook and his team have in store for its users, but till then, excitement is sure in the air. Matt Bonney has made available these lovely WWDC 2016 themed wallpapers with the Apple logo in the center. The wallpapers are inspired by the classic six color Apple logo, but uses the color palette of the WWDC…

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Goodshows is a community built around TV Shows, Movies and the users who love watching them. It’s a great way to discover new movies and TV Shows from your friends or other folks who share the same taste as you. Goodshows features a well-crafted UI and offers a pleasing experience when you use the app. Once you create an account in the app and start following a few people, you’ll see all their activity in your Home tab. So whenever someone rates a show or writes a review about a new movie, you can read it here and find out…

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Cleanz is a really simple and elegant iPhone app to clean up the accumulated junk in the Camera Roll. We take hundreds of photos in a month using our iPhones and then share it on places like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc. There are thousands of apps out there that let you edit your photos before posting, and most of these apps create and save copies of the photos you edit. Additionally, we also take screenshots on our devices, such as for sharing our homescreens on Homescreen.me. Many a times, we may also come across some images on Twitter or Facebook…

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Mac

Pixelmator has long been our favorite image editing app for Mac. With every update, the Pixelmator Team has delivered fantastic new feature sets to the app and it has shaped up into the phenomenal app that it is. Today marks the release of Pixelmator 3.5 on the Mac App Store, a major update that introduces three new features to the app. Codenamed “Canyon”, Pixelmator 3.5 introduces a great new Quick Selection Tool that, as the name suggests, lets you quickly select an area on an image with a few simple brushstrokes. This is great when a photo or image that…

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Mac

Hocus Focus is little menu bar utility for Mac that helps you keep your Desktop clutter free by hiding the inactive windows automatically. Hocus Focus keeps an eye on all open windows on your Mac and if there are any inactive windows in the background that haven’t gained your attention for a set period of time, it automatically hides them for you. In a way, Hocus Focus does what Marco’s Quitter app does, but in a much more elegant way. With only the windows you’re currently working on active and visible in front of you, it’s easy to focus and…

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Mac

Of all the time that you spend on your Mac, have you ever wondered how much of that is actually productive? There are far too many apps and websites out there today that are distracting for you and take you away from your work. Up until now, I’ve tried using a service called RescueTime to track what I do on my Mac. Although it works great, it lacks severely in the ‘design’ aspect and also costs $72 a year (or $9 a month). Thankfully, there’s now a fantastic alternative that looks and works way better — Qbserve. Qbserve is a…

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