Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Our thanks to the folks at Harvest for sponsoring Beautiful Pixels this week. Managing teams is hard. Imagine it’s Monday morning and your team doesn’t know what they’re working on for the week. Plans change and schedules change with them. Spreadsheets weren’t built for this. Harvest Forecast is a tool designed to plan your team’s time. Visualize schedules in Forecast and easily adjust them as needed. Forecast keeps your team’s expectations on the same page and helps you move projects forward. As new projects come in, you’ll know who’s available, and when to hire. Leave behind bloated spreadsheets and begin…

We’re big fans of Junecloud and their apps here at Beautiful Pixels. I personally love their simplistic style and the uniqueness of their apps. I have been using Delivery Status as a widget on my Mac for years now. The app, now called Deliveries, lets you track your shipments from various (supported) courier companies and get their status updates delivered to you. With the announcement of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite at WWDC ’14, I was pretty excited to see what Mike does with his apps. Features like Today widget and Action extension would place Deliveries in its own…

Here’s an interesting looking timer app for iOS that we came across a couple of days ago. Inspired by the Pomodoro technique of becoming productive, Flat Tomato is a Universal iOS app that helps you get productive by setting up times for you to work on tasks. As the name suggests, Flat Tomato features a flat, playful UI with neat animations and sounds. The colors change according to the task that’s currently running on the timer and the whole thing just looks great, including the app’s icon. Oddly enough, the icon doesn’t feature a Tomato at all. Using Flat Tomato…

NoteDash is a ridiculously simple utility app to jot down notes or snippets of text that you can view in your Notification Center. What you see above is the only UI you see in the app. Whatever you type here, shows up in the Notification Center widget that the app offers. There’s really not much to say about the app, except just how ridiculously simple the idea is. Let’s say you want to remember or recollect small snippets of information when you’re on the move. Your shopping list, someone’s long name, or pretty much anything else. All you have to…

When we first wrote about Numerical — the gesture driven calculator app for iPhone, its simple nature, beautiful design, minimalist elements and wonderful gesture-based interactions left us very impressed. The developers have now updated Numerical to version 1.2, that brings support for iPad, themes and some feature enhancements. The biggest change in this update is that Numerical is now a Universal app. You can now enjoy using Numerical, irrespective of which iOS device you own. The app looks just as beautiful on the iPad. Your calculations happen on the left and the history is displayed to the right. This way,…

Back in July, we wrote about Delight is in the Details version 2.0, the amazing collection of ebook, audio book, interviews and Q&As put together by Shawn Blanc. Delight is in the Details is a downloadable kit that contains an ebook, an audio book, 10 audio interviews (with transcripts) and 8 Q&As with some of the best designers, developers, writers, and makers of the creative industry, 3 beautifully crafted videos & a Resource Index. With this, Shawn makes a case for sweating the details & putting that extra effort to make good things great. If you’re someone who does or…