{"id":798,"date":"2013-11-24T22:29:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T22:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triangleappshow.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2022-12-15T06:46:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:46:41","slug":"tapsbook-app-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/blog\/tapsbook-app-review\/","title":{"rendered":"TapsBook App Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Thursday, at the local Triangle Cocoaheads meeting, the creator of the app <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/tapsbook-automatic-photo-book\/id653991592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TapsBook<\/a> showed his app and asked for feedback. \u00a0Sherwood (the developer) expressed that his love of photography and desire to tell stories with all the pictures he came up with necessitated a better way of build photo books. \u00a0The app is iPad only (sorry iPhone people), and allows you to tap and swipe your way thru building photo books that can be shared either on the web, on social media, or thru printing at your local Walgreens drug store.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P-NwJSVprvE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I too take way too many pictures, and having just spent a few days at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/kennedy\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kennedy Space Center<\/a> watching the launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CDsQiBUwAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.google.com%2F114444155417865533111%2Fposts%2F2ViYW99rKhE&amp;ei=fXqSUua0OtKfkQfOnIHIDQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNFI11nq1IjMC_5YigO3TqBNYoW_xw&amp;sig2=ODRTIcMIu2VcPnCER8mG1g&amp;bvm=bv.56988011,d.eW0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAVEN<\/a> mission, I thought this would be a great test. \u00a0I had recently used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CDsQiBUwAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.google.com%2F114444155417865533111%2Fposts%2F2ViYW99rKhE&amp;ei=fXqSUua0OtKfkQfOnIHIDQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNFI11nq1IjMC_5YigO3TqBNYoW_xw&amp;sig2=ODRTIcMIu2VcPnCER8mG1g&amp;bvm=bv.56988011,d.eW0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google+&#8217;s AutoAwesome <\/a>features to create some really exciting pictures of the launch, so TapsBook sounded like a perfect way to print a book of the picture.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned above, it was iPad only, so I had to wait until I got home to test it. I hope they resolve this soon, as I don&#8217;t always carry my iPad with me, but the iPhone is my constant companion. \u00a0I was a bit surprised that the app was sluggish on my iPad Air, I had a full photo stream (1,000 pictures) and the UI stuttered a lot when working with the pictures. \u00a0I was able to grab a share I had created of the MAVEN launch and start working on the swiping up and down to say which pictures were the best. \u00a0So after getting over the sluggishness, I felt the design was pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>Modifying the pictures within an auto created storybook, did not work as I expected. \u00a0I had hoped I could just grab a picture and move it to a new location. \u00a0Also, the algorithm ignored the large group of pictures I had taken of the launch sequence itself. \u00a0 It scattered the pictures over the last groups of pages, interspersed with other pictures. \u00a0I am sure I need to do a bit more study and hopefully I can correct this. \u00a0But given the ease of auto creation, I would expect an option to say respect sequence of the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>When I wanted to share the book, it required that I create an account. \u00a0The app itself is free, but you are limited to 500 pictures uploaded and shared. \u00a0I get this, storage is not free and I respect that Sherwood and team need to get paid. \u00a0I also tried to print the TapsBook to Walgreens and was surprised by the 20 page limit. \u00a0I have never used their service, so I am sure that is a limitation of Walgreen and not of the app.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I think the app does well in making creation of picture books (or \u00a0stories) easy for most people. \u00a0It is free to start with, and if you find that you like it, I would certainly buy a subscription to support the developers and cover the disk space costs. \u00a0As for printing, my test book was 65 pages long, and I couldn&#8217;t choose which pages to cut, so I didn&#8217;t get that done. \u00a0Maybe I will find a good 20 page book to print soon.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Sherwood and team come out with more apps, since the interface design is certainly intuitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Thursday, at the local Triangle Cocoaheads meeting, the creator of the app TapsBook showed his app and asked for feedback. \u00a0Sherwood (the developer) expressed that his love of photography and desire to tell stories with all the pictures he came up with necessitated a better way of build photo books. \u00a0The app is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"hide_page_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,223,249,343,383],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-app","tag-ipad","tag-local","tag-review","tag-tapsbook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aMa8-cS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}