In this video, David provides a concise walkthrough of the beta version of Sixagram (now 6tag), a Windows Phone Instagram client developed by Rudy. He starts at the login screen, demonstrating account creation and sign‑in, then shows the auto‑playing video feed with swipe‑to‑like/comment gestures reminiscent of Vine. The demo covers photo capture (including front‑camera, grid overlay, forced square aspect ratio), library import, a variety of filters, a single border option, and basic editing controls such as contrast. David records a short video using a press‑and‑hold interface that mirrors Vine’s workflow, previews it, adds a caption, and shares it to social networks. He also navigates the settings screen, adjusting profile details, live‑tile options, and contact syncing. Throughout, he praises the fluid UI, fast performance, minimal bugs, and notes that the app was built in roughly a week to a week‑and‑a‑half. He recommends downloading the app and anticipates possible future official Instagram support.
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Alright, hey guys, this is David. This will be a quick video, um, kind of giving you a preview of Rudy's application Sixtagram, which is right here and in beta right now. And I just thought I'd give you a quick preview of it. Actually, I'm going to start from the login screen just because it's too awesome to not show you. So basically, when you first open it It's going to give you this awesome login screen. Yeah, it's really awesome. So you can make an account from the screen, or you can sign in. Allow me to sign in for a little bit. And it gives you a welcome screen, and it automatically plays whatever videos are up, kind of like on SickSec, uh, his Vine application. And as you can see, it really looks a lot like, um, SickSec, and it has the same sideswipe motion to get to liking it or commenting. As you can see here, very fast, very fluid, just really great UI and design. Um, I really am a fan. Um, and if you want to take a picture, uh, you can select capture here. And then of course I can take a picture of my keyboard or something as exciting as that. But you can also load from library here. And you can shoot video, which is something that Instanz, which is Daniel Geary's app, obviously does not yet have, which is pretty neat. And as you can see too, it forces the square aspect ratio. So you don't have to select a region after you've taken the picture. It just, you know, it just, um, you can also use a grid, which is helpful. I don't know if you can see the grid very easily. There we go. Of course, you can switch to front-facing camera. So I'll just take a quick picture of something exciting like my Zune, and then I can show you some more options. So there's the picture. It's not really 3:11 PM, I just haven't set my Zune. To the appropriate time. Anyway, you have all these different filters. Seems like there's a lot of them. So he did a good job with putting all those in. And let me add, he put this app together in a very short amount of time. I don't know the time exactly, but something like a week, week and a half, something like that. So outstanding job. There's different— looks like there's only one kind of border right now, and you can flip it, which is nice, and adjust some of the other options like contrast. So then when you're cool with that, you go on to the next one. Type your caption here. "Zune HD still alive and well." Um, you can share it also on your social networks. That's something I forgot to do when I logged out. Um, but I'll just go ahead and post this. And it uploads just like that. So it's just like an Instagram application, works really well. Under settings you can change your name, just general profile settings. Oh, that's my phone number, so I'll be editing that out. You can adjust live tile settings, find people from your contacts. So yeah, it has a lot of the features that another Instagram application would have. And I— it's a great application, I really enjoy it. Rudy did a really good job. It's really fast, and for a beta, has surprisingly little bugs. So yeah, when it comes out, I definitely recommend downloading it. Right now it's version 1.2.1, I believe, or might have an update since then, but just, uh, yeah. So we have— and this should be officially supported by Instagram at some point. So, uh, who knows, we might be seeing, um, an official one pretty soon here. So there you have it, there's an overview of Sixagram. One thing I forgot to do is show you guys briefly how the video worked. It works a lot like, um, SigSec. You just press and hold, or that focuses rather, you press and hold the record button and then you can see the bar at the top that moves when you press it, then basically it acts a lot like Vine. Then you go to next. Let's try that again. Then it says preview, not the final render, just kind of gives you an idea what it'll be. And those awkward blanks in the middle won't be there on the, in the final render. And then obviously you can upload that and it uploads it while you type in the caption and share it. And it pretty much works really, really smoothly. So I'm going to cancel that, but yeah, it works really awesomely. So yep.
