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Instance (Instagram) and SwapChat (SnapChat) for Windows Phone

Name: Instance (Instagram) and SwapChat (SnapChat) for Windows Phone
Uploaded: 2013-06-01T07:23:14+00:00
Duration: 3 min 17 s
Channel: David V. Kimball
Description: In this video, the presenter demonstrates two third‑party applications for Windows Phone. The first app, Instance (formerly Itsdagram), is an Instagram…

1 Jun 2013 · 3 min

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In this video, the presenter demonstrates two third‑party applications for Windows Phone. The first app, Instance (formerly Itsdagram), is an Instagram client. The walkthrough shows the main feed, liking photos with a double‑tap, commenting, saving and sharing images, accessing the popular feed, and navigating to the user profile. The presenter highlights a recent update that fixes the Find Friends feature, enabling contact loading for following. Settings include background updates and linking to Facebook and Twitter for automatic posting. The demo captures a photo, selects a region, applies filters (including downloading new ones), chooses a filter (Jack), adds a caption, toggles social networks, and posts instantly, noting the speed advantage over other clients. The second app, SwapChat, is a third‑party Snapchat client. The demo shows taking a picture, sending it, and mentions several limitations: inability to adjust picture duration, possible lack of video support, and occasional crashes (e.g., when trying to adjust settings). The app supports captions, timer settings, sending to all friends, and includes an inbox for received snaps. Additional features include viewing messages via tap‑and‑hold and pinning the app to the Start screen. The presenter notes that SwapChat is in an early beta stage and may be unstable. Overall, the video provides a functional overview, highlights strengths (quick posting, filter selection, pinning) and weaknesses (crashes, missing features) of both apps for Windows Phone users.

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Hey fellas, today we're going to be looking at two applications for Windows Phone. The first one being Instance, formerly known as Itsdagram, which is the third-party Instagram client for Windows Phone. As you can see, the main feed here works just like the other Instagram applications, and a simple double tap on a photo will get you a like. You can leave a comment by tapping on the photo and leaving a comment here. You can also save and share photos, which is a neat feature. The, um, popular feed is still here. Um, there's a quick, uh, link to your profile right here. Um, which seems to be working pretty well. Uh, in their most recent update, they fixed the find friends feature, which now actually works and it loads your contacts, um, to follow. Uh, and there's some general settings here. Here you have background updates. You can link to your Facebook and Twitter accounts to post automatically. And that, um, and let's see here, let's get an example of a picture here. Let's take a quick picture of this lovely chair. Alright, now you hit accept and you have select, which is nice, you can select the region of the photo you want. And you have many filters here, let's see, you have, um, well you have, and there's an area to download the newest filters too. That's another part of the settings you can access. So let's select Jack because it looks cool and retro. I guess that's the term. And then you hit done. You can toggle between Facebook and Twitter, add your caption, um, some shortcuts down here for that, and you are good to go. And it posts immediately, unlike, uh, Instagraph and, um, other applications that take a while. So that is Instants. And here we have Snapchat, or Swapchat, as this third-party client is called. As you can see there, Swapchat. Essentially, it's just like Snapchat. You just take a picture and send it on its way. It currently does have some limitations though. Let's see, for example, I don't believe you can adjust— see, there it just crashed. I do believe you cannot adjust the picture, how long it takes, and maybe you can't do videos either. But you can send captions and you can set a time and you can send to all your friends. You also have an inbox here that works for receiving. We have another crash. It's in the early beta, by the way, so very early stages of development. Um, but here you have messages here. You can view them, tap and hold to view. You can even pin it to Start, which is a cool feature. So yeah, there you go. Those are the two cool third-party applications that are available for Windows Phone.