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

Microsoft has today released a major update to the OneDrive app for iOS. This release introduces a new cleaner design, along with support for the Drag and Drop feature and full support for the Files app. OneDrive is one of the major storage platforms available out there for users, so it’s good to see the app getting support for these iOS 11 features. The new look introduced in Version 10.1 is said to make efficient use of available space and removes unnecessary clutter. File names are now easier to read and the company has made thumbnails larger and more details…

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iLend is a gorgeous app that helps you keep track of the things or items that you lend or borrow with your friends, family or colleagues. Available for iPhone and Android devices, iLend lets you quickly add any items in seconds so you don’t just have a ready list of items, but also who it belongs to or who you’ve lent it to. Adding things in iLend is easy — simply choose the type (Borrow or Lend) and the Category from six available options — Money, Tech, Books, Clothes, Games or Other. If you choose money, you can specify the…

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Paste by FiftyThree Paste — the collaborative presentation tool by FiftyThree, Inc (makers of the fantastic Paper app) has today received its first major update since launch in November last year. Built for creative teams, Paste enables you to create beautiful presentations on the go with ease and makes sharing your work even easier. Today’s update introduces integrations with two amazing services — Unsplash and Giphy. Unsplash has a plethora of outstanding royalty-free photographs to use in your work, while Giphy really needs no introduction. The update also includes natural language processing (NLP), so you’re offered automatic suggestions based on…

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Design+Code is an interactive book & app that teaches you how to design an app. It includes in-depth lessons that will help you learn how to design and code beautiful user interfaces (UIs) for iOS 11, and is designed for beginner folks who do not know coding yet. Design+Code helps you grasp the basic principles of design, along with the concepts of colors, typography, and icons. The book is not only updated for the latest technologies used by Apple today, including Swift 4 and Xcode 9, but also makes use of popular apps like Sketch — so you’re learning the…

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Cornerstone — the popular and possibly the best Subversion (SVN) client for Mac has been acquired by Assembla — known for its Enterprise Version Control solutions. As part of this acquisition, the company will also be acqui-hiring Zennaware, the team behind the Cornerstone app. Paul Lynch, CEO of Assembla, announced their acquisition on the company blog earlier today. We are investing in the future of Cornerstone. Never wishing to stand still, it is our plan to take the key improvements we’ve made in both Subversion and the Assembla web app, and bring them to the already excellent Cornerstone desktop app.…

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Retweet Animation by @mfayax We came across this beautiful retweet animation created by Mohamed Fayaz — a Motion Graphic designer based in the Maldives. 11 years since @Twitter launched and we still don’t have a retweet animation. Well now you have. We won’t reproduce the animated GIF here, so click through to check it out. About these At a Glance posts: ‘At a Glance’ is a new type of post we’re introducing on Beautiful Pixels. These will usually be short posts with little to no text content, and will feature a quick look at something new we’ve spotted that we…

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