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Review – “Fun & Useful Sharing Whiteboard App”
App developer: SID On
Website: http://www.sid-on.com/ShareBoard/index.html
Share Board is a iOS Universal whiteboard sharing App, meaning it’ll work full-size on either the iPad or iPhone (or iPod Touches, obviously), a new and welcome introduction to the App Store, and one feature I think is worth more than the value of the App itself. Universal Apps need only be downloaded once and work perfectly on both platforms – unlike some iPad-Only versions of iPhone Apps, or worse, iPhone Apps that ‘work on’ iPad, but require the 2x Button to be any larger.
So what exactly is a Whiteboard Sharing App anyways? Well, the concept and execution are fairly simple – but very effective. You have a white space, and you fill it with notes, drawings, pictures, whatever you please. I’ll first go over the creating portion, then cover the sharing part.
To start a new White Board, what you’re actually doing is creating a server, or hosted board. Like a Chat Room, if you will. The tools you can use to ‘write on’ your whiteboard are Pen, Marker and Highlighter (or Eraser), you have four colors to choose from for each the marker or pen. You can also import photographs from your photo library. You can also add text (however, it always creates a border with drop-shadow making a whole box, which I found a little annoying – if there’s a setting to turn this bordering off, I couldn’t find it) anywhere on the whiteboard.
As fantastic as a whiteboard App itself on it’s own is (and this one is still pretty great), this one is extra awesome because of the sharable feature. Like I said earlier, when you first create a whiteboard, what you’re creating is the hosting page or server for other users to connect. Once you’re connected you can both edit and see the others edits in real-time, as they draw them. I easily set up a communal whiteboard between my iPhone and iPad and had a bit of fun with it. I bet this would be super-fun in a room with several iPad users.
Sharing and Saving are super-easy. You would not believe the number of Apps out there that don’t let you save your progress on something like this, or more likely, you can save but not continue the same session later. Luckily Share Board lets you do both. From within the board itself you can share by saving to your Photo Library, posting to Facebook or my Email. From within your ‘Saved’ Boards you can also export your whiteboard to your saved photos and from there you can do with it whatever you can manage to do with all photos, email, tweet, Facebook – however these options are not built in in the Saved Section. However, if you open your Saves and ‘Continue’ Work on them you can once again (from within the editor) share via all of the methods mentioned above.
Other than that one quibble, this is a great App – if you need a platform to share ideas and whiteboard-like notes, I highly recommend it!
~ChantelleJoy
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