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

A couple of weeks ago, Matt from Everpress wrote in about the launch of their new product/service called Haberdash. Haberdash offers a super simple way to order your own custom square cushions with your own pick of photos printed on them. I got to try the product out and was very impressed with it. Haberdash lets you create a customized cushion by starting a new project on their website or by grabbing their official iPhone app from the App Store. The website is beautifully put together and looks great, although I personally prefer using the iPhone app. The process of…

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Minimal, Animated Harry Potter Book Covers Jessica “Jeca” Martinez, a designer and illustrator from Manila, Philippines has created these beautiful illustrations depicting the book covers from the Harry Potter series. You can see a sample of her work here or follow her work on her blog.

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Airbnb gets an iOS 7 Redesign Airbnb for iPhone got a lovely iOS 7 redesign a few hours ago. The new design & layout makes lovely use of translucent layers and edge-to-edge images of the listings, giving an overall stellar look to the app. This update also focuses on improving the experience for the host and also lets the host manage enquiries and reply to guests from within the app. Airbnb is Free on the App Store.

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Mac

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been chatting with my buddies on Google Hangouts and Facebook using this fantastic new Mac app called Flamingo. Flamingo is a gorgeous instant messaging app released today for Mac that lets you sign in with your Google Hangouts, Facebook or even XMPP accounts and see which of your buddies are online, add new ones & chat with them — all in a slick, native & modern interface. Flamingo has been designed by Christian Dalonzo, best know for designing Stream for App.net and developed by Indragie Karunaratne, best known as the developer of Sonora…

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Slow Fast Slow The amazing folks at Studio Neat have just released another camera app on the App Store. We’ve already previously written about their other camera app — Frameographer, which is a stop-motion & time-lapse app. Today, Studio Neat have released Slow Fast Slow, a simple iPhone app that lets you shoot videos on your iPhone at high frame rate and then lets you manipulate the speed at which they are played. It sports a really simple UI and has nifty features like pitch control (audio) & reverse playback. If you have an iPhone 5s, you can record at…

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A huge thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring our RSS Feed for this week. Pixelmator is a fantastic image-editor app for Mac that was just updated to version 3.0. Pixelmator is a native app, built for OS X that boasts a ton of impressive features & is able to handle all of your image-editing needs. It is an easy-to-use & beautifully designed image editor built to help you create stunning new images and edit your existing photos. If you recently upgraded to OS X Mavericks, v3.0 ships with refinements & optimizations, so you get the best performance from the app. Here…

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