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

The Ultimate Logo Mock Up and Design Kit Many thanks to Mighty Deals for sponsoring us this week with The Ultimate Logo Mock Up and Design Kit. This includes 70 retro logo templates, 50+ photo-realistic logo mockups, high-quality vector files and other files. It’s a great way to get started on your logo quickly. You can go ahead and purchase it for just $24 (a whopping 76% OFF).

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Blixt is a superbly and lovingly crafted iPhone app for App.net by developers Bryan Clark and Jesse James Herlitz, who have been working on the app for several months now. Mikhail and I have been beta testing the app and really like its unique style and minimal approach to the social network. App.net launched with some great hype and promise and steadily garnered a fair bit of serious users who actively participated in conversations on the service. Although there were plenty of naysayers, the active users always found App.net useful as a service. There were several apps developed for App.net…

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Pictorian is a really interesting and efficient way to store and manage photos or images on your iPhone. The default photos app on iOS 7 is a little too basic and lacks some much needed management tools. Pictorian offers a really simple UI and some nifty features that make it a great app to store images. Although the developer touts Pictorian as a ‘photo storage’ app, I think of it as more of a box that holds random images. You can dump all the GIFs, funny memes, interesting photos and pretty much anything from various sources such as Twitter, Facebook,…

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Web

Exposure is a service that lets you create stunning photo narratives from the browser. Unlike Storehouse which is a native app on iOS (and which won an Apple Design Award at WWDC ’14), Exposure works in any modern browser and offers the tools and features to tell your story with the use of photos, headers and text. We included Exposure in the 2013 Highlight of Website Designs and since then, the service has seen plenty of improvements. The most notable addition to the service has been the introduction of Categories. There’s an incredible amount of content posted on the service…

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Offof is a really simple percentage calculator app for iPhone. It has a really straightforward UI and is reall simple to use. If you’ve ever gotten confused trying to calculate the percentage of any given number, this is the app you’ve always wished you had. Offof lets you quickly calculate the percentage value either Off (subtracted) an entered value or the percentage value Of an entered value. The former is really helpful when you’re out shopping and come across a sale at any store. 30% off on your favorite boots that cost $500? Just whip out Offoff, enter 30% at…

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Coming up with a logo design is hard. Really hard. More often than not, you’ll find yourself looking through different sources, scrambling for some inspiration for that first attempt at designing your own logo. If you’re looking for a little logo inspiration, this Mighty Deal has your name on it! The Ultimate Logo Mockup & Design Kit includes 70 retro logo templates, as well as 50+ photo-realistic logo mockups. These high-quality vector files, from Cruizine Design, are fully customizable and a snap to use. In no time at all, you can change up the color, size, shape or details and…

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