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

Symbols is a really simple and well-executed app for iPhone and iPad developed by Rinat Khanov that offers easy access to over 2000 special characters. Symbols, as the name suggests, contains a huge database of text symbols that you’d want to use. The symbols in the app are sorted by category and copying them is as easy as tapping on them. The categories include Arrows, Math, Emoji, Pictographs, Bullets/Stars, Technical, Punctuation, Letterlike & Enclosed. Tapping and holding down on a symbol marks it as Favorite and that is then available under the ‘Favorites’ listing. Your recently used Symbols are also…

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About a week ago, Droplr announced that some big changes were coming to the popular file-sharing service available for Mac, iOS and on the web. The biggest change, as part of this announcement, was that Droplr was moving to a paid-only subscription model and that there would no longer be a ‘Free’ plan available on it. All existing users would be placed on a 30-day trial and a special 30% discount would be available for existing users. Along with this announcement, the team also released version 4.0 of Droplr for Mac — essentially the flagship app of the service.

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As Christmas season approaches, some of the most amazing app developers who publish apps on the iOS App Store have come together for for a brilliant promotion called App Santa, wherein all participating apps are currently up to 60% off. App Santa brings you the following apps on sale: 1Password — $9.99 Calendars 5 — $2.99 Clear+ — $1.99 Day One iOS — $2.99 Delivery Status — $2.99 Launch Center Pro — $2.99 Mileage Log+ — $4.99 PCalc — $6.99 PDF Converter — $2.99 Perfect Weather — $1.99 Printer Pro — $2.99 Scanner Pro — $2.99 Screens VNC — $14.99…

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Wordbase is a new tactical game for iPhone collectively developed by Aller Media and Robocat, who is a a regular exhibit on this showcase here. Out on the App Store today, Wordbase is really interesting word game that involves turn-by-turn gameplay with an opponent and involves finding and creating words from a grid of random letters.

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Tick for iPhone Gets a Major New Update Tick — the delightful Todo app for iPhone that we wrote about back in October received a major update today. Version 1.2, which is now out on the App Store, contains a long list of new features and improvements to the already stellar app. Some notable additions in this update include: Reminders (Daily/Weekly/Monthly etc.) Due dates, making it easier to set deadlines on your Todos Sync via iCloud & Reminders Background Sync Fonts, including Avenir Next, Cochin & Gill Sans. URL Schemes, to add Todos and Lists directly. The Taphive duo have…

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We first wrote about GAget back in 2011 when it was available as a Dashboard Widget for OS X. GAget is a companion widget for Google Analytics that offers a summary of your visitor data right in your OS X dashboard. A little over a month ago, the developer Zoltan Hosszu released the GAget iPhone app to have easy access to your Google Analytics stats right in your hands.

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