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

Web

There are already a large number of websites and services out there that let you build and showcase your own online portfolio. They all offer different features, some concentrating on compatibility across various devices, some on their organizational and management features while some simply focus an all integrated service that lets you not only host your online portfolio, but also lets you sell your work to visitors. Dunked is one such website that that let you build your online portfolio and share it with the world. But in this crowded market, Dunked offers a beautiful design, ease of use and…

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Mac

A little over two years after the release of CleanMyMac 2, MacPaw has released CleanMyMac 3 — a lovely update to the beautifully designed utility app for Mac that helps you keep your Mac optimized and functioning well. Although most utility apps focus solely on the functional aspect, the designers at MacPaw have crafted CleanMyMac 3 with all their pixel love. The app has undergone a visual overhaul and now looks stunning on OS X Yosemite. With this update, CleanMyMac 3 also gains four additional modules — Mail Attachments, iTunes Junk, Maintenance and Privacy. The Mail Attachments module helps you…

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We teased these freshly printed stickers on Twitter a last week and we’re happy to announce that they’re now available for sale. We’ve had the official Beautiful Pixels Square Vinyl Stickers on sale for a while now and now you can also order these full logo rectangular stickers. Buy Now The stickers are transparent and are printed on custom, durable and long-lasting vinyl material and look absolutely stunning. They measure 1.5″ x 5″ and are custom cut to look great on any surface. Of course, you can still purchase our square logo stickers, now at reduced prices here: Buy Square…

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This article is part of the weekly sponsorship. Many thanks to our friends at Squarespace for sponsoring us this week. I still remember the early days of me using the internet on a Windows PC. I was on an ISP that offered a 64kbps plan as its “high speed” offering, Firefox was still relevant and widely used, and millions were still using Windows XP. I thought it would be fun to have my own little page on the internet and started looking around for ways to build my own website. I didn’t know HTML/CSS back then, so my options back…

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Pretty much everyone in your social circle posts photos these days. Instagram and other similar apps are immensely popular today and people are posting all kinds of photos to the service. If you love taking photos and applying filters to transform some into something extraordinary, you’re gonna love Filters for iPhone. It is an iPhone app by Mike Rundle, who’s previously built apps like Interesting for iPhone and runs projects like Design then Code. Filters lets you choose from over 800 filters, overlays, effects and textures to apply to your photos and then save or share them anywhere you want…

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I wasn’t really a big believer of the sleep cycle or sleep tracking apps available for iOS or Android. Sure, they did what they advertised, but I still wasn’t seeing the point. As long as I was getting sufficient sleep somehow, I was happy. I didn’t care what my sleep patterns were and I never felt the need to know when I went to sleep or woke up. All this changed when I came across Pillow 2.0. Pillow is a smart sleep cycle tracker and alarm clock app for iPhone and iPad. The app not only allows you to track…

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