Since my last post, we’ve added lots of exciting new features to Beeclip. So, let’s dive straight in and see what’s been going on.
A new Facebook app
Everybody knows that Facebook is the best way to stay in touch with your friends, and Beeclip is the best way to tell stories with your photos and videos. So mix them together and you have something really awesome – the Beeclip Facebook app.
The new Facebook app gives you the power to do everything you do on Beeclip.com from right inside Facebook. It literally takes seconds to turn your Facebook photos into jaw-dropping scrapbooks. In one click, you can embed your scrapbook in your news feed, timeline, or even save each page into a Facebook photo album.
If you’ve not used it yet, don’t miss out, give it a whirl now!
Embed your scrapbook
If you’re a blogger, have your own website, or other social media profiles, you’re going to love this new feature – scrapbook embedding.
After creating a scrapbook, you can now embed it into any website. An embedded scrapbook is a fully-featured mini version of your scrapbook. It looks just as good as it does on Beeclip, and when clicked it will open into the beautiful full-screen viewer.
The icing on the cake is that when you make changes to your scrapbook on Beeclip, these changes will automatically appear in your embedded scrapbook. Pretty darn amazing I’m sure you’ll agree.
Embedded scrapbook help you to share stories with your friends and customers, and are a great way of spicing up your blog or website. Embedding is really easy, just click the embed button on the sharing bar of any scrapbook and follow the simple instructions.
Photo effects
When you’re telling a story with your photos, you can now use photo effects to add a little magic. There’s 4 styles (we’ll be adding more soon) to choose from: black & white, retro, sepia, and vibrant. They’re super easy to use – just drag’n drop them on to your photos. Have a play and see what works for you.
iPhones, iPads, and other mobile devices
The amazing editing experience on Beeclip uses something called Adobe Flash. Unfortunately, Flash isn’t supported by all computers and phones.
To ensure that your scrapbook is can be viewed by anybody you share it with, we have created a version of Beeclip that displays beautifully on any computer or phone. To create and edit you’ll still need to use a flash-enabled device, but once created, your scrapbook can be enjoyed by everybody.
So that concludes this round of new features on Beeclip. We really hope you enjoy them and please don’t hesitate to get in touch with any comments or feedback.
Posted: November 1st, 2011 | Author: Seb | Filed under: Features, Releases | No Comments »
You’ve just made an incredible scrapbook on Beeclip and can’t wait to share it with all your friends. Do you:
a) copy the scrapbook link and send them a text message?
b) take a screenshot, print it off and then post it?
or
c) use the brand new, super-simple, scrapbook sharing bar?
…I hope you chose c) but if not don’t worry, read on and all will be explained.
We’ve just released the fastest, easiest, coolest way to share your scrapbooks. We’re calling it the scrapbook sharing bar.
You can post to your Facebook wall, send to your friends on Facebook, tweet, send by email, embed on your website, and last but certainly not least, you can love the scrapbook on Beeclip. All brilliant ways to share both your and other people’s scrapbooks.
Check out the screenshot below and head over to any scrapbook on Beeclip to give it a try. We hope you love the way it whooshes into place, ready to share.
Posted: September 5th, 2011 | Author: Seb | Filed under: Features, Releases | No Comments »
I’ll bet that you have heaps of really great photos on Facebook. But what are you doing with them? Most of us just leave them in their cobwebbed albums gathering cyber dust. Surely our beautiful photos deserve better than this?
Well here’s the solution – the new Beeclip Facebook application!
It’s so easy to transform your photos into something truly amazing. Just choose a style, a Facebook album, and hey presto – a stunning scrapbook just for you. Personalise until your heart’s content and then share with all your friends.
Head over to Facebook and give it a whirl. Your photos will thank you.
Posted: August 26th, 2011 | Author: Seb | Filed under: Features, Releases | No Comments »
Adorning your Beeclip scrapbooks with backgrounds, text, and frames produces amazing results. But sometimes you need that little extra something to give your scrapbook a boost.
Today’s update to the site has just the solution – stickers. Stickers are special clips provided by Beeclip for you to use on your scrapbooks.
We’re launching with a limited collection of stickers, but we’ll be adding to these all the time. To get started, these are the available collections:
Stickers are really easy to use. They work the same as any other clip. You simply drag them straight onto your scrapbook. You’ll find stickers in the Extras tab on your scrapbook, alongside backgrounds and frames.
In addition to these fantastic new stickers, this release also included two other nifty little features.
Firstly, a new clip panel (pictured below). This tidies all clip-related buttons into a single usable toolbar.
Finally, you can now make any clip into a background. This will stretch the clip to fit the entire page. And you guessed it, the button to do this is on the new clip panel.
That’s about it for now, I hope you enjoy this latest release, and as always, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with any feedback.
Posted: June 6th, 2011 | Author: Seb | Filed under: Releases | No Comments »
If I’m honest there’s actually a ton of reasons why you should be using Beeclip, but I’m sure you haven’t got all day. So to save you some time I’m going to let you in on my top 5 reasons why should create a Beeclip scrapbook today.
Creating scrapbooks on Beeclip is easy. And I mean really easy. Our Automagical technology will create an incredible scrapbook for you in two astoundingly simple steps. It’s literally a matter of seconds to create something amazing from your photos and videos.
When you use Automagical you get to choose a style for your scrapbook. And it’s these styles that are my top 5 reasons for creating a Beeclip scrapbook.
1. Collage
Mix lots of your photos (and videos too), add a dash of Automagical, leave for a couple seconds, and ping – a beautiful interactive collage of your lovely snaps. Ready to download and share straight away.
A Beeclip collage is much more fun than sharing your photos by email or on one of the ‘me too’ photo sharing sites. Trust me, your friends will be blown away.
2. Moodboard
Can’t decide on the colour scheme for your living room? Not sure which fashions are working for you this season? Or maybe you just love collecting images from the web for inspiration?
Whichever it is, the moodboard style is the one for you. A clean and simple layout with subtle frames. It’s perfect for groups of photos when you’re looking to create a mood or compare images.
3. Scrapbook
When I’m researching a purchase, a new hobby, or just a topic of interest, I like to collect lots of images. The scrapbook style is the perfect medium for this.
Like the moodboard style, the scrapbook style puts your images first, but gives them a slightly rough and ready feel – like a real life scrapbook. It’s a really cool place to gather and share your digital clips.
4. Portfolio
When creating a portfolio, it’s really important that the portfolio lets your photos do all the talking.
The Beeclip portfolio style does just this. Solid colour backgrounds with photos presented as large as possible. It really is breathtaking stuff.
5. Photo Album
Light colours, thick white borders, and interesting yet traditional layouts. That pretty much sums up the photo album style.
All the chic of a classic coffee table photo album with all the convenience and techno-wizardry of a Beeclip scrapbook. It’s a winning combo.
Conclusion
All the Beeclip scrapbook styles suggest an intended use, but there are no rules. You can use the portfolio style to create a scrapbook, or the moodboard style to create a photo album. They’ll both look great.
Try experimenting with the different styles, and don’t forget that you can of course refine and tailor your scrapbook exactly to your needs after you’ve created it. The possibilities really are endless.
And don’t forget, you can add videos to any of the Beeclip styles. Your photos and videos presented together really are better.
I hope you’ve enjoyed my top 5 reasons for creating a scrapbook, make sure you give it a try. You don’t even need to register to give it a go, just hit the ‘Try now’ button on the home page.
Posted: May 18th, 2011 | Author: Seb | Filed under: General | No Comments »
The team have just made another cracking update to Beeclip.com:
- A buzz page for the scrapbook where you can comment and share.
- A full view of the scrapbook for editing and up close viewing.
- A collage style for scrapbooks – perfect for sharing lots of photos and videos in one go.
Read on for more information about each of these new additions, or to see for yourself just head to the home page and hit the ‘Try now’ button.
The buzz page
So what is this new ‘buzz’ page then? Well, it’s the place that you first go when you click on a link to a scrapbook. The reason we have called it the buzz page is because it’s the place where you can see and make comments, love and follow a scrapbook, and also share a scrapbook on Facebook, Twitter, and by email.
The screenshot above shows you the top of the buzz page which has a fully functioning mini version of a scrapbook. Everything you can normally do when you view a scrapbook you can do here. To get a bigger and better view of a scrapbook, click the large green ‘View’ button. If you are able to edit a scrapbook, this button will change to ‘Edit’ and will let you make changes to the scrapbook.
Alongside the title of a scrapbook you’ll often notice a red ‘Love’ button and green ‘Follow’ button. Clicking ‘Love’ shows the creator of the scrapbook your appreciation, and is a bit like a virtual pat on the back. Clicking ‘Follow’ means that when the creator updates a scrapbook you’ll receive an email letting you know.
Next up is the comments section of a scrapbook (pictured above). All users are able to read comments and logged-in users can make comments. If somebody replies to a comment you have made, you’ll be sent an email letting you know. That’s about it, nice and easy.
Finally, the sharing section shown above lets you quickly ‘Like’ a scrapbook on Facebook (which will post it to your news feed on Facebook), ‘Tweet’ the scrapbook on Twitter (this will pre-complete a tweet for you which you can then edit), and also share the old fashioned way and ’Email’ a link to a scrapbook to one or more of your friends. The ‘Add this’ button gives you sharing options for a whole heap of other social networks and bookmarking services.
The full view
Now on to the ‘full view’. If you click the big green ‘View’ or ‘Edit’ button on the buzz page you’ll be taken to the new full view. The full view expands the scrapbook to fill your browser window to give you as much viewing (or editing) room as possible. We’ve done our best to trim everything down, so it’s a really clean viewing and editing environment. Once you’re finished in the full view, just click the ‘Exit’ button and you will return to the buzz page.
Collage style
When you create a scrapbook on Beeclip and go through the Automagical process, you get to choose the style of scrapbook you would like created. Collage is the latest addition to these styles. It’s the perfect style to use when you want to create a scrapbook with quite a few photos (ideally more than 10). Collages are a really flexible way to present your photos and videos. You can create them for all kinds of things, from children’s birthdays to business events. The collage below is a few of the Beeclippers on a recent snowboarding trip.
The collage style is designed to give you the feeling of having real photographs scattered across a surface. Currently there’s only one background for collages which is the dark wood you can see above. It gives a feeling of a nice desk or table. More backgrounds with different textures will be added soon. As you can see, clips in the collage are framed with a simple white border.
So that’s about it for this release. We hope you like the latest updates to the website as much as we do, and as always we welcome your feedback. We are currently working on a number of new and exciting Automagical styles to compliment Collage, so be sure to come back soon and try them out.
Posted: April 1st, 2011 | Author: Seb | Filed under: Features, Releases | No Comments »
It’s been all hands on deck getting everything ready for our latest release which I’m happy to let you know is now live.
This latest update has improved the way you navigate between the pages of a scrapbook. Gone are the old left and right buttons, replaced with an all singing all dancing new ‘nav bar’ which appears at the bottom of a scrapbook. As you can see from the screenshot below, she’s a beauty.
At the top of the nav bar are some useful little thumbnails, each a representation of a page in your scrapbook. On the right side are buttons to navigate between the pages, and at either end of the thumbnails are buttons to move to the next or previous page of thumbnails. As well as using the buttons to move from page to page, you can also click on a page thumbnail to zip you straight there.
If you are the owner or editor of the scrapbook (rather than a viewer), you will see a row of blue buttons at the bottom of the nav bar. These will let you reorder pages, remix your scrapbook (if it was created using Automagical), change settings (such as the title), and collaborate on the scrapbook with other users.
In addition to the nav bar, you’ll probably also notice that the dock has moved from the right to the left side of the scrapbook. There were some usability problems on the right and people didn’t always see it. Hopefully its new home is much more obvious and usable too.
That’s about it for this release, but our next release is already well and truly underway. Highlights include a revamped text tool and some snazzy scrapbook commenting. We’ll tweet about it when we’ve rolled it out, so make sure you’re following the Beeclip Twitter feed.
Posted: March 16th, 2011 | Author: Seb | Filed under: Features, Releases | No Comments »
It’s a big release on Beeclip today, hooray! Here’s a quick rundown of the new features.
Read on for more detail, or you can jump straight in and try Automagical now.
We’ve had lots of feedback asking for an easier and faster way to create scrapbooks. So, we’ve developed a pretty amazing new feature we’re calling ‘Automagical’. When you now create a scrapbook you can choose to either create an Automagical scrapbook, or a Blank one.
Automagical is a super-simple 3 step wizard:
1. Select your photos and videos
2. Choose a style
3. Choose colours
Automagical will then (as if by magic) design a unique scrapbook just for you. It’ll arrange all your photos and videos and apply backgrounds and frames (of the style you’ve chosen). Once created, you’re free to edit and improve as much as you like.
Automagical Creation
If you want Automagical to create a new version, just click the Remix button. Automagical will re-create your scrapbook with the same photos and videos, changing layouts, backgrounds and frames. But be warned – this can get quite addictive.
We’ll be sourcing more great backgrounds and frames all the time, so we hope that you’ll find the perfect ones for you. If you’re a minimalist, you can always choose the ‘None’ option which will just lay out your photos and videos without backgrounds and frames.
We’ve given it a good ol’ lick of paint, with a nice slideshow of some example scrapbook pages. Hopefully we’ve explained more clearly what Beeclip is all about. The jewel in the crown is the uber-enormous Try Now button. Gotta love it.
Registration forms should be quick and painless, well we think so anyway. We’ve tried to remove all those unnecessary bits of information and clutter that aren’t really needed. We’ve made the text bigger and added some jumbo text boxes too. It just feels more fun that way.
As you know, Beeclip is a hoot. And as such, you’re sure to want to invite your friends right? So, now when you register you get the option to invite your friends straight away. You can do this by connecting to Facebook, or the good old fashioned way by sending them an email.
Scrapbook links used to be pretty big and unwieldy. We’ve made them much shorter now so they’re easier to use on social services like Twitter. We’ve also made them ‘non-guessable’ too – we’ll come on to that in a second.
Scrapbooks now default to open access. This means that unless you change it, your scrapbook can be viewed by anybody who knows it’s link. As already mentioned, these links are pretty unguessable, so it’s up to you who you share them with. We think it’s better this way, as it means your friends and family won’t have to register to come and have a look at your scrapbooks.
However, if you do want that extra level of privacy, you can disable Sharing. This only allows access to people who you’ve specifically invited. It’s up to you.
We all need a helping hand from time to time, so now when you create your very first scrapbook, the first page will have a help video on it. It’s a 60 second fly through of the most important features on Beeclip to get you started as quickly as possible.
Anyway, that’s about it for today. We hope you enjoy the new features, be sure to give Automagical a try and let us know what you think. We’d love to hear from you.
Posted: February 3rd, 2011 | Author: Seb | Filed under: Features | No Comments »
We’re happy to let you know that we’ve now made the latest release to the Beeclip website. As well as this release, we’re also working on a very exciting new feature that is scheduled to be released in January, so be sure to stay tuned for that one.
The main feature in this release is the ability to upload multiple photos at the same time. If you click the big green upload button in the dock, you can now select as many photos as you like, and then watch them appear in the dock when they’re ready to use. The big improvement here is that while clips are uploading to your account, you can carry on making changes to your scrapbook. If your internet connection is slow, or you change your mind, you can also cancel the upload of a single clip or the whole batch in a single click. Nice and easy.
The screenshot below shows you the new functionality in action. The first clip is part-uploaded, the second is finished uploading and about to be displayed, and the last is all uploaded and ready to use.
Happy uploading and see you next time!
Posted: December 8th, 2010 | Author: Seb | Filed under: Features | No Comments »
Beeclip HQ has been a hive of activity over the last few weeks. We’ve given the dock a glamorous makeover and built in some cool new features too. We’re happy to let you know that the site has now been updated with this latest release.
So, aside from this super slick new look and feel, what else have we been doing? Well, as you can see below, the dock is proudly wearing two new tabs – Facebook and Flickr. You can now not only upload photos from your computer, grab them from Google Images, but also add them directly to your scrapbooks from Facebook and Flickr. This really makes it a snap to create amazing digital scrapbooks with all your favourite photos, so be sure to give it a try.
In addition to the fab Facebook and Flickr functionality, we’ve also given the ‘Your Clips’ tab a spring clean. It now clearly shows your upload usage and easily lets you filter your clips. We’ve also given the info pop-up a lick of paint too – you’ll see this when you leave your mouse over a clip on a scrapbook or the dock.
That’s about it for this release, we hope you like the new look and features. As always, please don’t hesitate to send us your feedback, it really helps us develop the product. As a quick taster for our next release (two weeks away), there’ll be new upload functionality, backgrounds for pages, and frames for clips.
Look forward to seeing you then!
Posted: November 24th, 2010 | Author: Seb | Filed under: Features | No Comments »
