Slideways - Gallery Internet on the iPad

Various RSS newsreaders in the AppStore a huge amount. But in addition to the text, through our eyes each day passes a large number of drawings and photographs. And for this type of information, there are interesting applications that can make viewing images from different sources, simple and convenient.

Slideways has a very interesting interface. Application creators retreated to accommodate all the features from the idea through one or more windows, as in the Twitter for iPad.

Minimalism has been saved through the use of a virtual wall, which is an elegant frame with subscriptions to image stream. Hence, on the basis of visual preferences, you can choose the source of interest. The rest of the functionality is hidden, as it were on the faces of the white cube. Something similar can be observed when switching users in OSX.

On the left is the panel Sideways Exhibitions. Here are duplicated all user subscription, but in a text format that is sometimes intuitive.

Subscriptions, referred to herein as «Exhibitions» (from English. Exhibition), may be from different sources: the accounts of users of Flickr, Picasa, RSS or simply web-page. This online gallery found its place links to pages DeviantArt, which for many years I have accumulated a huge amount.

Slideways will be useful to those who are not satisfied with the demonstration of a photo from a standard iPad applications. Album with your own images can be imported from the iOS file system.

Viewing photos in slideshow mode occurs. Interval image shift can be set to at least 3 seconds, the image may be scaled depending on the position of a tablet. There is a famous Ken Burns effect when the image appears to be sag. Effects and design look really cool, but I really miss the manual mode paging. His absence seems to be a serious drawback.

Slideways for iPad from Khaitu on Vimeo.

Another significant disadvantage of the small number of templates for picture sources. Yes, there is Flickr, have Picasa, but this storage is not limited to the world of the image, where the same DropBox. It will charge on application youth, especially in the next version promises to add support for FaceBook.

Pages DeviantArt had to be added as regular links, and for this resource reference must be of the form " http://blackeri.deviantart.com/gallery/», ie / gallery / at the end. It would not have been superfluous and import from Google Reader.

There are also disadvantages little smaller, to which the hands and heads of developers have not yet reached. I would like to be able to install the cover of the most «Exhibitions» on their own, because many artists primarily learn the most memorable works. Do not add optimism and price Slideways at full RSS-reader.

However, all this negative list should not frighten those who are not indifferent to the digital painting or photo. For Slideways should look and feel.

Page in the AppStore:Slideways
Project Website:khaitu.com
Evaluation in the AppStore (V1.1): ★★★★
Cost: 4.99$