2pad official blog

As you can see in the official Amazon Web Services dashboard, AWS S3, the storage service that we are using to store all 2pad’s photos and videos was not working for a few hours yesterday.Everything should be back to normal now… 

One little known feature of 2pad is the ability to get a link to a collection of photos and videos by just sending them by email to 2pad@2pad.com. 2pad will email you back a message with a ready to share link (see at the bottom of the email) that you can send by email or instant messaging. This is certainly the fastest and easiest way to get a link to the photos you want - and the ability to mix photos and videos in the same link makes it unique! 

Now the “Save to my gallery” button (when you click on a 2pad link) will allow you to select which photo/video files you want to save in your 2pad gallery. Thus if you like a couple of the photos in a slideshow, don’t be afraid to click the “Save” button and select only those you want!

Just leave your mouse for a second over a small thumbnail in the main gallery view and you’ll see a larger view of the picture (in addition to the various informations that were already displayed before).This will happen only when using the small thumbnail sizes in your gallery. 

The 2pad viewer will now do a slideshow of the photos/videos, you can control the slideshow with the new slideshow widget at the top left of the viewer.

From now on you can connect to this blog (at the same address blog.2pad.com) from an iPhone or iPod Touch and it will be automatically display in a suitable format, thanks to the iWphone plugin.

We just added a new “Remove Duplicates” button at the bottom of your 2pad gallery. It will allow you to easily remove some or all of the duplicates in your gallery.

We are very sorry for the downtime we had in the last few days because of our new Email Extractor feature. The good new is that you can now try this great new feature by registering from our new sign-up page. 

2pad will have a booth (#402-F) at the IPSCON conference in Chicago in two weeks. It will be a great opportunity for visitors to preview our new feature (I can’t talk about it yet,  sorry). 

Here at 2pad, we’re working around the clock to come up with new features to simplify the media exchanging experience. From our development, we’ve witnessed how valuable this application can be to families who prefer a more private and secure way to share family photos with their contacts. As we all have experienced, privacy settings often go overlooked on our social networking sites . Forums are filled with worried parents and leaked photos.

As an email based application, users can be rest assured that their media is not only stored safely online, but that they have complete control of who sees what and how much of it.

We’d like to thank www.popularbabyproducts.com for agreeing with us that this application is a perfect cyber antidote for parents everywhere.

Thanks!

the 2pad team