Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Solitaere is a remarkably beautiful card game for iOS that I’ve been playing on my iPhone since early 2016. It is a lovely take on Solitaire — the age-old and classic card game that most of us have spent hours playing on Windows PCs. Crafted by Keiran Flanigan, Solitaere makes playing the game of Solitaire thoroughly enjoyable and a lot of fun. Solitaere features a clean, minimal and elegant layout and design. The cards laid out on the screen look beautiful, and all touch interactions are accompanied by sounds. The game also features some really nice animations at the start…

A few weeks ago, Apple released iTunes 12.7 — a notable update to the company’s once favorite destination to cram new & unrelated features into. iTunes had long become an exceptionally slow and cumbersome app that acted as a music player, video player, media library, media store, podcast store and library, iOS device management tool and iOS App Store interface. The iTunes 12.7 update removed the ability to access the iOS App Store from within iTunes and also removed the ability to manage your iOS app library. Apple’s new recommended and only way to install apps on your iPhone or…

A little over a year ago, we wrote about Storm It — a simple and clever Android app that allows you to post “tweetstorms” on Twitter. With Storm it, you simply go on typing your thoughts or ideas without worrying about how much characters you’ve used. The app will automatically split your block of text into tweets, prepend the “<number>/” format to it and send out your Tweets. It works… dare I say… automagically. A handy preview option shows you how your tweets will be split, so you can make minor changes to your text if needed. It even maintains…

Thanks to the internet culture today, working across different time zones has become a routine task in most professions. Figuring out what time to schedule or attend meetings with your remote colleagues is almost a daily occurrence. We’ve looked at several different time zone converter apps here on Beautiful Pixels over the last decade. My personal favorites have been Zones, Shift and Miranda. Most of these have been iPhone apps, but there have been some really good time zone converter apps available for Mac as well. Time Zone Converter and World Clock is one such app that immediately managed to…

Unread: RSS Reader 1.8 Unread is one of the finest and most elegant RSS readers available for iOS out there. It’s journey originally began with Jared Sinclair, but later moved to Supertop (makers of the podcast app Castro), and was recently acquired by Golden Hill Software. It features a minimal UI that focuses heavily on impeccable typography and offers a delightful experience of consuming your feeds. Today, Unread has been updated to Version 1.8 that introduces support for the Slide Over and Split View modes on iPad. There are also some improvements to the readability view and hardware compatibility improvements…

The delicious plate of yumminess you see above is the icon for Cardhop for Mac — a new app from Flexibits. Flexibits, for those unaware, make Fantastical — the calendar productivity powerhouse for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Cardhop for Mac is an app to interact with your contacts. Much like Fantastical, Cardhop offers an input field powered by Natural Language Processing (NLP) so you can perform actions and carry out tasks with ease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIVWcce3P1M Cardhop for Mac is available for $14.99 on the Mac App Store. About these At a Glance posts: ‘At a Glance’ is a new type of…