Deja - analogue Flipboard for video viewing

Many of you know an application Flipboard with his idea of ​​the "social magazine" for reading your news. Today I will tell you about the app with a similar concept to view the video. It is very strange that there are all kinds of Twitter client application to read RSS for all tastes, and watching videos was in the side. This omission has decided to correct the developers Deja application for the iPad.

Similar applications Flipboard, Deja collects videos from your accounts in social networks in one place, as well as offers to see the recommended videos. Let's take a closer look, what can Deja, some advantages and disadvantages you may encounter during use.

When you first start the app will download the list of videos that you should see. Frankly, I did not understand, what is the principle in the Deja compiled this list of the best, to me personally, he did not seem interesting. Videos placed tiles of various sizes. On what basis the application selects the size of the video I do not understand. Most likely, the size of the preview in the video is chosen randomly.

Clicking on the plus sign in the bottom of the app, you can add interest to your social networking accounts. Not to say that the choice of a large, but the majority will be sufficient. There are Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, RSS, there is also a possibility to import all of your rss subscriptions in bulk from Google Reader. The only thing I did not like is the lack of Vimeo.

Settings frankly developers still cheated users. For promising icon with a cog, you can only find a short video about how to use application, a proposal to assess the application, the feedback and the ability to invite friends to use Deja.

When finished with the addition of accounts at the bottom of the respective icons appear. Selecting, for example, Google Reader, you can view all the video, or select any one subscription, similar happens to the other accounts.

With pich-to-zoom gesture you can zoom in the preview video. A single gesture will bring thumbnail will display information about the sender and the number of views. Bringing once again the smallest previews will be quite large, and large split into points. After the third approach will be only one video subscription, and all around there will be video related.

Watch videos can be in the form of a thumbs up and expanding to fill the screen. Here is what we are faced with a huge lack of Deja. For some unknown reason, there is no possibility to choose the video quality, so that polnoerannom mode, the picture looks, to put it mildly, not very. And this despite the fact that the developers boast support for Apple TV, which means the ability to watch videos on your TV.

When viewing a video, you can mark liked heart, share it in one of his accounts, by e-mail. You can also watch related videos.

In the very first tab in the row with the account, you can return to the marked heart video, view the history, as well as to learn about what the video is still without your attention.

Another drawback is the application stability. Say, Deja - highly unstable application and from time to time "happy" owner of departures. On the Internet you can find a large number of reviews on this. Personally, I test the application of the time only once has presented a "surprise" and it turned out to scroll a list of video (after the zoom in and out the preview everything returned to normal), no more problems not seen It was. Perhaps, with the October update to version 1.4, developers have decided to do away with collecting bugs.

Another controversial point I would call the application design, apparently, the developers sympathy for spots. It seems to me that if a long time to sit at watching videos in Deja, sooner or later begins to ripple in the eyes. On the one hand interface is pretty good, but there is a feeling of incompleteness, as if it is a draft, not a finished product.

The app came out very ambiguous, but in any case not bad. As is known, Flipboard, in due time, also caused a lot of questions, and are still far from ideal, however, many of his love and happy to use.

Download from the App Store: Deja
Price: free
website Developer: Deja
System requirements: IOS 4.2 and higher