Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Create your own video carousel on your iPad with Vodio




Vodio is a great time waster. It's a free iPad app that lets you create custom video channels that you can easily swipe through. Here's how it works.


(Credit: Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET)

When you first launch the app, you'll be greeted by a screen of 12 colorful tiles. Tap on up to five of these tiles to select your topics of interest. Tap Next and Vodio will load your channels plus a Hot 100 channel and a Connect channel. Swipe horizontally to browse through the carousel of channels, and swipe vertically on the centered channel to browse its videos.


(Credit: Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET)

Tap on a video to play it. In the play window, you can swipe from the right edge of the screen to view more thumbnails of that channel. A handy + button lets you queue up videos to watch later. When you first tap a video to watch later, Vodio creates a Watch Later channel. Any type of search functionality, however, is missing.


(Credit: Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET)

On the Connect channel, you can link to your Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube accounts. I signed up with two different YouTube accounts, but both times the newly created YouTube channel for my videos failed to populate with any of my videos.... [Read more]




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