Many creatives can agree that starting a new project can be the hardest part. Staring at that blank page can be tough, and the longer you’re on it, the more painful it can get. Coming up with ideas is such an intangible process – you never know when inspiration might hit. When you’re working with deadlines, wouldn’t it be great to get some control around that process? Enter Thoughtflow, a beautiful brainstorming app for the iPad that’s designed to remove creative block, and start filling that blank page quickly. Thoughtflow projects revolve around the classic mind-map, but instead of simply…
Author: Preshit Deorukhkar
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
In today’s day and age, it’s very difficult to keep up with the news. There’s always so much happening around you and thanks to all the smartphones, comparatively cheap internet and apps like Twitter or Periscope, news travels blazing fast from one corner to the other. All this means there’s a lot of daily clutter that’s generated, not all of which may be relevant to you. Many a times, I come across a news story that leaves me confused, as I may have missed it in the past and often can’t relate to the update. Timeline is a brilliant app…
Complete is a task management app for iPhone with a “social” twist. Like any other task management app, you can create tasks in the app by giving them a title, then adding details and notes to them. However, with the social aspect of Complete, your tasks can optionally be public and thus be shared with others on the Complete community. Once you’re set up with an account, you can invite your friends and start following others who’re already part of the Complete community. You can then start following the tasks that others post, like them or leave comments on them.…
Last month, we told you about OneShot, a brilliantly executed iPhone app that lets you share screenshots with highlighted text from an article or any other block of text. OneShot creates a beautiful image containing the text that you highlight, which you can then share with your friends and followers on social media. Today, we have Cite, another iPhone app that does the same thing, although it takes a shorter, more practical route to achieve this. Cite is designed to make the process of recommending articles worth reading much more interesting than it already is. Just like OneShot, Cite creates…
If you love inspirational quotes or are a fan of good typography, this new app is sure to catch your attention. Typorama is beautiful app for iPhone and iPad that lets you transform your text into stunning typographic designs with a few different customizations. The workflow that you follow in Typorama is simple. First, select an image to use for the background. Either pick one from the default set or search using a keyword. Next, enter some custom text or use a randomly generated quote. Choose from a select few text styles and adjust the opacity, drop shadow and color.…
Density is a really simply app for Mac that lets designers and developers calculate dimensions for multiple screen sizes. It is by far one of the most simplest utility app I have seen for OS X, but one that’s a super handy tool for anyone who works with different screen and display sizes in their line of work. The app is a single window that lists different screen densities along with the Width and Height values in pixels. You can enter the value in any of these text boxes and Density automatically calculates and displays the corresponding values for other…