Beautiful Pixels has been your window to gorgeous apps for nearly a decade. In an attempt to help people solve their everyday problems in style, we recently started with ‘Beautifully Done’ — a series of posts that focus on elegant apps that get the job done for you. We have talked about how to avoid ruining your 4G data cap when hotspotting to a Mac. This week we take a look at keeping a tab on your subscriptions. Subscriptions are pivotal to the existence of several businesses in this world. Committing to that monthly payment for a service sounds pretty…
Author: Rohan Naravane
Rohan Naravane
Rohan Naravane has been working for technology and media companies for over a decade. He's written about consumer tech for a majority of his career, and currently is based out of Toronto, Canada. You'll find him on Twitter mostly rambling about tech, movies and TV shows. Come say hi @r0han.
TripMode 2 is a virtual gatekeeper for your Mac that saves unwanted apps from using the internet when you are connected to a mobile hotspot. It’s a fantastic app if you tether your phone a lot for using 4G data and saves you from the shock of an unwanted phone bill. Beautiful Pixels has been your window to gorgeous apps for nearly a decade. In an attempt to help people solve their everyday problems in style, today we’re introducing ‘Beautifully Done’ — a new series of posts that focus on elegant apps that get the job done for you. This…
I’ve had the pleasure of trying out very specific, yet interesting foodie apps on Beautiful Pixels that nail a specific type of dish right. Take Filibaba Smoothies for instance; an app as delicious as the drinks it features. Today I look at Best Caesar — an app made by Tyson Caly who got the caesar salad recipe handed down from his father, and now wants to share it with the world in a beautiful way. A visually stunning array of photographs sets the backdrop for this app; with very little UI elements getting in the way. This digital photo cookbook…
There’s a never-ending flow of new content that you’re made aware of everyday — be it a new album from your favorite artist, a movie that your friends have been talking about, or even an app that we’ve recommended here on Beautiful Pixels. We’ve previously recommended apps like Recall that let you be up to speed with recommendations. Mentio is yet another interesting-looking app that’s built using the iOS 7 design language.
It is almost 2 weeks since New Year’s Eve and we might just be witnessing a sigh across the world as many fail to keep their resolutions. There’s an age-old belief that one can break out of a bad habit (or stick to a good one) for good, if you can do it for 21 days. Apparently there’s no scientific reasoning behind the 21 day theory, but it sure does sound reaffirming; that whatever you want to achieve is possible, if you can do it for three weeks.
You may be aware of an app called Tunewiki that shut down citing lack of sufficient ad revenues to sustain their business. I for one was very saddened to hear the news. Though the app wasn’t oozing with beauty, it did this one thing right for me — pull out lyrics over the internet for the song that was playing, with a karaoke-like auto scrolling mechanism. Recently, Mikhail came across musiXmatch, which was part of Federico Viticci’s Must-Have iPhone Apps of 2013. I was delighted to know of an app that not only did the lyrics bit, but looked darn…