Today on ‘The Highlight 2014’, we’re focusing on the world wide web. There are some terrific websites & web apps out there and designers and developers are doing some crazy things in modern browsers with newer technologies. Along with apps, we’ve also been writing about our favorite examples of beautifully designed websites for quite some time now and we thought we’d bring you our picks for some of the best websites that we came across in 2014 and kept returning to. Pocket Casts Web Pocket Casts Web is a beautifully designed web app for listening to your favorite podcasts that…
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
Just like last year, App Santa is here, right on time for the holidays. This year, Realmac Software and friends have brought us a fantastic collection of some of the best-looking and award-winning apps available for both iOS & Mac. The apps have been discounted to up to 80% for the holidays, so there’s no better time to grab them in case there’s a chance that you haven’t already. Here’s a list of all the apps that are part of App Santa 2014. There’s a good chance that you already own most of these apps as we’ve been recommending most…
NOTE’d is an absolutely stunning app for iPhone that lets you jot down notes, ideas, thoughts or pretty much anything. It features a phenomenally designed UI and sports an extensive, yet easy to use feature set that make it really stand out as a gorgeous notes app for iPhone. NOTE’d has been around for quite some time now, but was recently updated with a slick, post-iOS 7 UI. You can create notebooks in the app for different ideas and purposes and each of these notebooks can have multiple notes. Each note can include not only text, but you can also…
The photos you take using your smartphone’s camera contain much more than just the moment you’ve captured. Additional data such as the make & model of your smartphone, details like ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed, and Focal Length as well as the location where that photo was taken is available along with the photo itself. Every time you share the photo with anyone, all this information is directly available to them. Metapho is a simple utility app for iOS 8 that lets you view all this additional meta data from your photos and also gives you the ability to remove it…
Realmac Software is one of the first names that comes to mind when I’m asked about who I think are the developers behind some of the most stunning Mac & iOS apps out there today. Realmac Software have been responsible for apps like Clear, LittleSnapper, Ember, Rapidweaver and today, they’ve released another Mac app for the masses, called Typed. Typed is a stunning text editor or writing app for Mac powered by Markdown. Typed offers a distraction free experience through a gorgeously minimal UI and ships with some neat features that help you get your writing done. When you launch…
A little while ago, we told you about Banca 6.0 the beautiful currency converter app for iOS that lets you quickly convert any number right from your Notification Center using a Today widget. Today, the Stacks 2.0 update has just hit the App Store and it offers a remarkable way of converting currency right in your browser. We had previously written about Stacks 1.0 back in November 2013 and it had left us impressed. Today’s Stacks 2.0 update is a big release that brings some incredible new features to the app. The most notable feature in this release is a…