Today's launch of the newly designed "Photos" page is a first in a series of updates that will make the site look cleaner and more user friendly as well as make content pop out. The new "Photos" page gives you a stream of photo entries from people you follow making it more fun to discover. We have also updated the latest page with this new design. We will soon be giving other pages a refresh and doing some re-organizing so that more relevant content is highlighted and easily discovered. Stay tuned!

With the recent update we have added the ability for you to invite your friends through e-mail or via Facebook. To easily share your photos with friends and family you can now go to the new "Connect" menu at the top. When you invite a person to Zaplife they will automatically start following you making it easy to connect with you.

The slideshow now fully supports native fullscreen mode. This means that you can utilize your entire screen when viewing photos. To enable fullscreen mode you simple click on the fullscreen toggle icon that is located at the bottom right of each picture (see screenshot) or hit the "f" key on your keyboard. The fullscreen mode works on the latest Chrome and Firefox browsers as they are the only browsers that currently support this feature. Browsing photos is now even more fun and enjoyable!

If you use Facebook and want to share your activity and photos with friends and family Zaplife now fully utilizes the new Facebook Timeline. With the new Timeline integration 3 activities are shared with Facebook. The first is when you publish a new entry. You can now also choose to share private entries with your Facebook friends. The other two activities are when you comment a photo and follow another user. This behavior can be customized in your settings (See photos).
If you haven't yet connected your Zaplife account to Facebook it's very easy to get started. Simply click on connect in your settings.

It is now possible to modify the date of your entry. To change the date on a new or old entry you simply click on the empty date field and select a date. If you leave the field empty the entry date will be set to the original publish date. With this update we have also given you the option to show the date on each entry. To activate this you simply edit your design settings as shown below.

In our latest update we have redone how photos are displayed on your profile stream page. Photos now utilize the full width of the page giving a more photographic and fun experience. We have also introduced different formats so that you can personalize how photos are displayed. Choose from full frame photos to a collage of square thumbnails. The default format can be set in your design settings. You can off course override the format on a per entry basis by simply choosing a format when you create or edit an entry. If you choose "Automatic" as your default format Zaplife will show large photos up to 5 photos. After 5 photos it starts to show thumbnails.
As before you can easily edit captions, story and the title directly on the entry.

Using the fullscreen slideshow makes it now a lot more fun and convenient to look at discover pages, your news stream, lightbox and many other pages as you can view a continuous stream of a set of photos. You can still view the entry of a photo by clicking on the new entry icon or the "e" key on your keyboard. To switch back to your selected set of photos you simple click the same icon or keyboard key. With this update you now go directly to the slideshow from your news stream which makes it easier to quickly browse photos.

The new slideshow also features many small improvements such as the new info box in the side column. Navigation buttons now also hide when you stop using the mouse. Likes and the photo info box now stay open when you browse. Performance should also be improved and make the slideshow load faster than before. We also added a new "enlarge" button at the bottom right of all photos so that you can easily hide thumbs and feedback to enjoy fullscreen photos.

For fast easy browsing we recommend using the slideshow keyboard commands:

i : Toggle photo info.
c : Comment on a photo.
l : Like a photo.
e : Toggle the photo entry of a photo.
< : Previous photo.
> : Next photo.
space : Next photo.
z : Toggle fullscreen view.
s : Show the sharing dialog.
Up : Paginate previous set of thumbs.
Down : Paginate next set of thumbs.
esc : Exit.
x : Exit.

You can also navigate to the next photo by clicking on the main photo.

We hope you enjoy this update and as always welcome any kind of feedback!

Today we are proud to announce Zaplife for the iPad. Using an iPad to browse and interact with photos is great fun and with the latest iOS update we offer full iPad support.
iPhone users also get new features such as photo info, lightbox, tag search, infinite browsing of discover feeds in the slideshow plus much more. We have included many performance improvements and bug fixes as well.
The iPad version also offers high resolution images with great detail and animated slideshow feature.

Go to our iPhone/iPad pages to read more. zaplife.com

If you have any feedback or problems don't hesitate to contact us!

Today we make the Zaplife experience even more fun by releasing a full screen slideshow feature for all photos. The new full screen slideshow will also display photos at a higher resolution to properly utilize your screen. With the larger photo size you will be able to enjoy photos in greater detail than before and fully appreciate each photo.
Launching into full screen mode is easy. On the discover and lightbox pages you simply click on the photo thumbs. On an entry you simply click on the main photo.

The slideshow has two modes. One that looks similar to todays entry where you can easily navigate and comment photos. The second mode hides the entry text, comments and thumbs enabling you to enlarge the photo even further. To switch between these modes you click on the "Entry" tab or hit the "e" key on your keyboard.

To navigate through the slideshow you can click on the arrows that appear, click on thumbs or use the arrows on your keyboard. In fact, you can control the entire slideshow using keyboard shortcuts. To see all available shortcuts you launch the slideshow, click on the info button and then click on show.

We hope you will enjoy this new feature! Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any kind of feedback.

Uploading your photos is now super smooth with drag and drop support for modern browsers. Drag and drop support is enabled if you have the latest version of a modern browser such as Chrome or Firefox.
To upload photos you simply select the photos you want in your desktop and then drag them to the browser window and drop them on the big green box that will appear. Uploading photos to Zaplife doesn't require flash to be installed anymore and utilizes the latest html5 technology. If you are however using an old browser you will be able to upload via flash or html4 as usual.
If you are having any issues uploading don't hesitate to contact us by clicking on the feedback tab to the right on every page.