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NOWBOX

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NOWBOX is your personalized TV guide to the best of YouTube videos through your iPad. Connect your iPad through AirPlay and turn your NOWBOX into a continuous video viewing experience on your TV. Subscribe to a multitude of channels and scroll through the channels. Just like a TV guide, except it’s personalized and organized according to your favorite channels.

Sync all your subscribed YouTube channels, Favorites and Watch Later Videos.

Experience all your favorite videos via an intuitive navigation. All you have to do is swipe or tap the screen.

See what your friends are watching through Facebook and Twitter.

Features:

· Personalized. NOWBOX lets you choose only the genres which interest you to add to your stream.

· Organized. All your favorite videos arranged neatly within a TV guide for you to scroll and choose from.

· Swipe & Tap. Everything at your fingertips through swipe or tap based-navigation.

· Social. Share your videos and check out what your friends are watching.

· Manage. Log in with your YouTube account. We sync all your channel subscriptions.

· Choice. NOWBOX’s channel management lets you choose from millions of videos to watch.

We strive for 5 star reviews and happy users, please contact us at feedback@nowbox.com if you are unhappy with our app.

Try it now, it’s free!

What's new in version 1.4 (May 09, 2012):

- iPad Retina display ready.
- Explicit refresh button and pull to refresh for new videos.
- Videos in each channel are now sorted from latest to oldest
- Optional setting to reverse the video order.
- Video transition respects previously selected player state, i.e., player will stay paused when switching to new videos.

App Specifications

~~Maker~~ Pipely Inc.
~~Category~~ Entertainment, Social Networking
~~Release Date~~ Dec 15, 2011
~~Latest Revision~~ May 09, 2012
~~Version~~ 1.4
Cost* Free
~~Requirements~~ Compatible with iPadWifi, iPad3G, iPad2Wifi, iPad23G
~~File Size~~ 3.54 MB

* = You should verify app price in App Store before downloading or purchasing app.

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If you are a YouTube junkie who can only get a fix by finding the best or worst of the internet, then NOWBOX is for you. This free app created by Pipely Inc. gives avid YouTubers an organized plethora of videos at their fingertips.

After downloading the app, users are asked to select categories they are interested in such as Comedy, Sports, Entertainment, etc. Once the desired interests are chosen the users are prompted to select whether they would like to connect their NOWBOX account to Facebook, Twitter, or their personal YouTube account to synchronize the channels to what they already like. After a few moments, the YouTube guide is set!

After the channels have been set, the stations appear on the left side of the screen. The boxes in white that are to the right of the stations and in the same row are the videos available for viewing on that station. When a video is clicked, a preview of it will appear in the top left corner and a written synopsis will appear to the right. Once a video has been viewed, the box will change shade to a darker gray to show that it has already been seen.

If a user decides the channels prescribed for them is not to his/her liking, or decide to make a change, there is an icon in the shape of a television in the middle panel of the screen to click to make changes! Once the T.V. has been tapped, a “Channel Management” window will appear. Here you can select a category to change stations. When choosing a category, a Pandora’s Box of stations will appear from which to choose. Recently I have been stuck on the “College Humor” station as I can never get enough “Jake and Amir” videos.

Though NOWBOX is not the most innovative of app (Pulse is a predecessor for the news industry) it is an extremely user-friendly app. The ease with which someone can surf Youtube to find videos to their liking without having to plug in random search terms keeps things interesting.

This app is a great one to use on business trips, flights (many airlines have now kitted out their planes with Wi-Fi) or during a potentially dull lecture (you know your Political Theory professor makes you weep with boredom). This app gives users the power to find great things on the internet that is catered to them. User can find what they like without knowing what they’re looking for! To quote Matthew Perry in the movie ‘Fools Rush In’, this app is “…what I never knew I always wanted”. Close

Posted February 20, 2012

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