Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Blur Studio — Your own Wallpapers for iOS 7 Hot on the heels of the release of Tick, Taphive has released their third app titled Blur Studio. Blur Studio is an insanely simply way to create iOS 7 style wallpapers for your iPhone by applying blur to your photos. The app boasts of a really sweet interface that lets you pick photos from your camera roll, apply different layers of blur to it and save it back to the Camera Roll. There have been a few apps that offer this exact feature on the App Store, but it’s Blur Studio’s…

I am not a weather nut. Despite writing about a plethora of weather apps on BP here, I still live and work out of a place like Mumbai, where throughout the year, the weather can almost always be classified as “Hot & Humid”. Moreover, most weather sources aren’t that great in predicting the weather around this region anyway. Except Forecast.io. The service, from the creators of Dark Sky app has been the closest in sufficiently impressing me and the vast amount of data they have for the world is impressive in itself. That’s why, when Ryan wrote in to me…

There are plenty of conversion apps out there, but this one caught our eye for its simplicity. Dgrees is a simple iPhone app that lets you convert between Celsius & Fahrenheit. That’s it. Not buttons, no settings. Just a simple app to help you with your temperature conversions. When you launch Dgrees, you see two columns on the screen. The left one is for Celsius and on the right is Fahrenheit. You can swipe up/down in each column to change the values — there’s no keyboard. As you drag your finger, the value in the other column changes as well.…

Squarespace — Design Beautiful Websites [Sponsor] Our thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring the Beautiful Pixels RSS feed this week. Squarespace is a super simple way to build your own website, portfolio or e-commerce store. It offers a beautiful and intuitive publishing platform, allowing you to create and manage a professional looking website with ease. You get dozens of great-looking templates to get started on your own website and customizing them to suit your needs is extremely easy. Squarespace is a full-featured platform, so you don’t have to worry about hosting or domains. Everything related to your website is managed right…

Essence: Icon Set for iOS 7 Silvia Gatta has released this beautiful icon set, heavily inspired by iOS 7. The set contains over 300 icons, which are available in both normal as well as filled forms. When you purchase the icon set, you get a .zip with transparent PNGs at standard & @2x resolutions as well as a single .ai file with these vector icons. Essence is available for just $19.99 and you can purchase it from here.

Shares 2 We've previously written about Shares, the brilliantly simple app that helps you to track your stocks and how much you've earned/lost via them. Developer Sam Soffes recently released Shared 2, a brand new app that brings a delightful new interface to your phone, specially designed with iOS 7 in mind. Unfortunately, Shares 2 uses a Yahoo API that might not support some non-US stocks. If you own a bunch of stocks, you should definitely check it out. Shares 2 is $0.99 on the App Store. Seven — High Intensity Interval Training Seven is a neat little iOS app…