Here’s another beautiful cocktail recipe app that has me thirsty and craving for some spirits. Back in August, we took a look at The Cocktail App — a stunning and beautifully designed iPhone app that had me go, “Holy mother of Arkham Asylum Batman, I’ve got to put this up on Beautiful Pixels. There are so many deliciously yummy pixels put together in this app, that it’s not even funny.” Today, I came across another app of the same kind that is equally beautiful, and may be a better app overall for most of you.

Designed and developed by Distinction, a mobile app design and development studio based in London and Budapest, Cocktail Flow is a gorgeous collection of pixels that’s available on iPhone, Android and even Windows Phone 7. In fact, the app was available on Windows Phone 7 and Android before it arrived on iOS. The app features some amazing screens and little animations that make you smile. You can browse by category to pick your drink or select from the liquor you have in your bar and it’ll tell you which drinks are possible. I really like the way the bottles are laid down on the wooden shelf.

The app is FREE on iOS and Android, but costs $2.99 on WP7. You can download it for your phone from the links below.

• Download from iOS App Store
• Download from Android Market
• Download from WP7 Marketplace

I should mention here that I first discovered Cocktail Flow on a cousin’s Galaxy Note and was going to feature it here, glad that there was finally a beautiful Android app to write about. Unfortunately, I later found out that the developers had also released it for iOS and WP7.

No, this isn’t another contender who has just joined the race for super cheap (or free) Flashlight apps for iPhone. In fact, Lighty has been around for a long time now. Lighty is brought to you by the same developers who designed and developed the very hot BeachWeather app.

So no surprises here that Lighty is beautiful too. Lighty is a no-hassle flashlight app for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. That is, it does one thing and does it very well. When you launch the app, the light turns on and it shuts off when you quit the app. There is practically no UI to deal with here. There’s only a gorgeous power button in the centre of the screen, just in case you have to temporarily turn the flashlight off. Double-tapping the screen alternates between a dark and light scheme. The app is fast, so there’s virtually no delay in launch.

Studio Dalton has made Lighty available for FREE on the App Store today, so ahead and grab it already. There’s no reason not to have this app in your library.

Update: The app is back to its original price of $0.99

ProCSSor is a new app out for the Mac that lets you format and compress your CSS files. If that name sounds familiar to you, it’s because we have previously written about it here on Beautiful Pixels — back when it was a web app.

ProCSSor is now available as a native Mac app and brings along all the fantastic features it boasted as a web app. The UI of ProCSSor borrows from the Tweetie-like interface that we’ve been seeing in many new apps these days, but to me, the UI looks more along the lines of the Github for Mac app. The three vertical tabs on the left let you choose between selecting a local file, typing your own code or link to a remote file. You can drag and drop files into the app as well.

The app features a beautifully simple “PROCSS” button at the bottom, with a cancel “X” on the left and the settings glyph on the right. ProCSSor lets you choose your own style with indents and selectors, so you can pretty much play around with the settings and get the output to your liking. What’s more, you can even create a Droplet from within the app. It already supports all CSS3 and vendor-specific CSS properties and has command-line access for build process integration as well.

ProCSSor is available for $6.99 from the Mac App Store and is a must-have for anyone who plays with CSS files.

Here’s another recipe app for iPad that has me drooling for two reasons — delicious dishes and delicious pixels.

We’ve previously seen the Green Kitchen Stories app for iPad that brings us a delicious serving of healthy green recipes. Filibaba (funky name, guys) has now come out with the Veggie Meals app for iPad that brings you 55 different easy to cook meals and their recipes. These recipes come along with some stunning pictures of the dishes, so it’s a beautiful sight to look at.

The app’s graphic design is from the hands of Max Rudberg, whose work we’ve already previously featured on the site multiple times and are big fans of. The app features a delicious textured background and a clean layout. Recipes are easy to browse and read and are presented using a gorgeous color scheme.

I love how the app’s settings have these beautiful rocker switches to choose between metric or US measurements & Celsius or Fahrenheit. As a cherry on top, the app’s website is equally beautiful and contains some delicious pixels. The app sells for $3.99 on the App Store and is also localized in Swedish.

Here’s a lovely little app that helps your discover some fantastic artists and their music on Spotify. SpotON Radio is an iPhone app that makes use of the Spotify music streaming service and lets you create personalized radio stations according to your taste.

SpotON Radio features a very subtle, yet very beautiful design scheme and UI. It uses flat UI elements and has a very refreshing retro-style feel to it. Using it feels slick and the app is quite responsive in general. You can create your very own stations tailored according to the music you like/dislike. To begin, simply search for an artist and start listening. SpotON will keep churning out new artists into the queue. Like/Dislike the songs and SpotON will keep learning. The app even lets you skip as many songs as you like, so you’re never far away from great songs.

If you find a song or artist that you really like, you can add songs to your Spotify playlists. SpotON streams the songs at 320kbps when on Wi-Fi and even supports AirPlay via the system player.

SpotON Radio is currently FREE on the App Store, but requires a Spotify Premium account to log in.

Our thanks to Sortpad for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.

In today’s day and age, almost everyone takes photos. Be it the continuously falling prices of Point-n-shoot cameras or the ever-increasing megapixels in cameraphones that everyone is carrying around these days, one thing is certain — managing these photos is a task in itself. There are apps like Picasa or iPhoto that make this task easy, but there are quite a few people out there who are looking to achieve this with a manual approach. They want to manage their photos the old-fashioned way of filing them in named folders. How do you do this in a better way? You use Sortpad.

Sortpad is a fantastic app for iPhone and iPad that lets you sort and file photos into folders of your choice. Simply choose the bunch of photos you want to sort and the folders you want to file them into from Sortpad’s server app running on your PC or Mac and use your iPhone’s or iPad’s glorious display to simply view and flick your photos into the corresponding folder that you set. This is surprisingly fast and easy to do — almost to the point of feeling you’re doing this with actual photos.

Sortpad even has a slightly advanced mode, if you’re looking for a more modern approach to sorting. Sortpad includes the ability to tag photos. Just like you’d copy/move your photos with Sortpad, you can also tag your photos by flicking them into the zones. Sortpad ingeniously adds these tags to the metadata of the file, so this information can also be read by other apps. The desktop app tells you which photos have been tagged and which tags were applied to them.

Sortpad connects over Wi-Fi, so you can sit back and relax on your favorite chair or Sofa and start filing your photos & is a universal app, so works on all your iOS devices. The app sells for a regular price of $7.99, but the developers are running a special Beautiful Pixels sale where the app is available for just $5.99 on the App Store. The server/desktop app is free for Windows and Mac and can be downloaded from here.