Dropbox

New era of keeping your privacy within safe hands!

Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, Dropbox was founded in 2007 by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi.

What is Dropbox?
Briefly Dropbox brings your files together, in one central place with cloud system that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.  They’re easy to find and safely synced across all your devices so you can access them anytime, anywhere. You can store and share files, collaborate on projects, and bring your best ideas to life whether you’re working alone or as part of a team.

How to use?

Dropbox is a universal app and it can be used with any kind of devices even with your Smart TV, it is free to download the app on any kind of devices. By the way, you can use the application on the Web page or application on the market. Whether on Web page or Application, you can simply upload your files whenever you want to the Dropbox. On the other hand, you can share your files with whomever you want even if they don’t have a Dropbox account without upload limits.

How much is it cost?

Prices depends on usage of the cloud system and your preferences. You can use the monthly or yearly bills depending on your choice. On the other hand you choose a standard/advanced individual account or enterprise accounts for your businesses. There is 30 day free trial for every account, if you don’t like the Dropbox. Standard Individual accounts cost 15$ monthly or you can prefer an Advanced account which costs 25$ monthly with better features. However using Enterprise accounts’ charges varies depending of your business standards. By the way, yearly billed accounts, costs more lucrative than monthly billed accounts. Using a standard individual account costs you only 12.50$ for a month, and an advanced accounts costs 20$ for a month.
Features of Dropbox.

Using Standard account comes up with; 3 TB (3,072 GB) of space, 120 days of file recovery, 256-bit AES and SSL/TLS encryption, Office 365 integration, Remote device wipe and Live chat support from Dropbox.

Using Advanced account comes with; Everything in Standard, additionally you can use as much space as you needed with advanced admin controls and Advanced user management tools.

Security

Dropbox is designed with multiple layers of protection across a distributed, reliable infrastructure. Securely access files from desktop, web, and mobile, or through connected third-party apps. All of your files encrypted and secured with using 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). So your files more secure on the Dropbox than keeping on your USB or HDD’s.

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So using Dropbox has a great advance to keeping your important files on the Internet without capacity concerns, and you can share or keep it safe faster and more secure ever. Prices are very admissible for the Dropbox features. Dropbox is a great application for freelancers, solo workers and businesses.

BandCamp

Discover amazing new music and directly support the artists who make it.

The Bandcamp created with this motto 10 years ago by Ethan Diamond who is also current CEO of the Bandcamp and his co-workers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker. The Bandcamp application simply offers you discovering new music among the hundreds of different music genres. In details; the Bandcamp app gives you instant, unlimited streaming access to your purchases and lets you explore a vast catalog of music by artists from every corner of the globe, and opens your ears to the extraordinary with its radio show.  In addition you can directly support the artists who made amazing arts with purchasing their works, instead of complex process on other apps, you can buy any kind of music with a click.

You can also either listen any kind of music from application for an acceptable fee or you may discover new kinds of music simply scrolling on your phone screen. With this process you can support your favorite singer or band more easily than other kind of applications. Using the Bandcamp is surprisingly easy and practical process. Unlike the other apps in its class, Bandcamp is very simple and has a user-friendly application interface. Unlike the other music player applications, you can listen and purchase any kind of music you want on the application interface, with non-complicated process. You can use either your credit card or bank card on purchases.

On the other hand, you can create and edit your own profile, you may interact with other users and use it like any other social media app, in addition you may create your own collection, including different types of music created by your favorite artists, by the way you can follow your favorite bands or artist and other fans just like you with this action you can get the latest news from the application unlike your friends. Although it depends on the artists, you can create your own wish lists and you can get any kind of music with no charge as a special offer. Of course, in order to get this beautiful features, you have to create an account. Don’t worry it’s free, instead of other applications in its class and you can try any kind of music before purchasing.

The Bandcamp is also very helpful for artists who is not much popular among the others. Any artists who wants to sell his or her work, could do this by simply adding the music to the application interface. Instead of other application in its class, Bandcamp charges only small amounts of excise from artists for each purchases. However using this apps as an artist, may let you a great step for a great carrier.

Any user or artist are able to link their social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram) with Bandcamp and share their experiences on Bandcamp with their friends. On the other hand, they can follow any news related with music industry on Bandcamp. In addition, you can follow any latest news of music industry on the Bandcamp archives.

You should get this application immediately on Apple Store or Google Play Store for free, if you want to create your own collection. Unlike the other apps, Bandcamp is free for every platform to download and use, except any purchases. Also, you can visit their web page; “https://bandcamp.com/” whenever you want.

SoundCloud

Listen to free music!

What is Soundcloud?

Soundcloud was created by Alexander Ljung, Forss in 2007 and it has more than 300 workers. It is one of the famous social music platforms. You can create, listen and share the music on it or on your other social networks.

Besides all these, you can be a listener. You can discover new music; follow creators of the music, save your favourite tracks and even more.

You can also share your favourite playlists with your followers if you want to become a curator.

How to use Soundcloud?

First of all you need to download the official app for your device and create an account. For creating an account you can type your e mail address and choose a password or you can directly log in by your Facebook, Google+ account. You can start to follow users you like to discover new music. Once you have your own profile it will be possible to see others’ sharing. You can also create custom playlists. There is no limit, you can create as many as you want to listen on your own or let others to see and listen them. It is possible starting a station to listen the similar kinds of tracks and accessing your recent station from your profile.

Post and Share Your Posts

You can upload your songs with a free account by clicking ‘’Upload’’ button. When you upload a song you need to confirm the title, add a description and tag your sound. By clicking on ‘’More options’’ from the right corner you can save your music before uploading.

It is very simple making a playlist in SoundCloud, by clicking the ‘’Add to playlist’’ button you can create your own playlist easily.

If you like the song and want to share it with your friends on other social platforms, you should click the ‘’Share’’ button to do it via Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler, Pinterest, Google+ and etc.

It is possible organising your player by changing its colour and size by clicking on the pencil icon.

Exploring new music on Soundcloud is very entertaining. For doing that you just need to click ‘’Explore’’ button which is on the left side of the navigator bar.

By clicking on the drop down arrow you can search for groups and stay in touch with them to hear their posts.

You can listen thousands of music you can’t find anywhere else as free! As you start to use it, you will realise that you can build your profile and grow your audience.

After hearing them all you should definitely have Soundcloud on your device and start to have fun with your music!

Instagram

The best photo sharing app!

What is Instagram?

Instagram is a very popular smart phone app for sharing photos, videos with your friends. The founders of it are Kevin Systrom and Mike Grieger. It was come into use in 6th of October in 2010. Since Instagram is very popular it was chosen as the best mobile app in social media by Shorty Awards and nominated in Teen Choice Awards.

Instagram can be downloaded as free from all app stores and used from usual androids.

The app let you to create your own profile and can be connected other social networking profiles like Facebook and Twitter.

You can share photos, videos, hashtag pages, profiles, locations with your followers. If you want to share them only with a single person, you can use ‘’Direct Message’’ which is on the right corner of the main page.

Instagram let you to post photos, videos into one story and it disappears after 24 hours. There are privacy settings on stories and you can make some changing like hiding your stories from the ones whom you don’t want to show etc.

Pictures and videos shared by you can be seen by anyone. For hiding your post you can make some changing from privacy settings.

As an important thing, there is an age limit on Instagram and to have account users should be at least 13 years old.

Instagram let you to meet new people from all around the world and it is a good app not letting you to feel alone. It also makes your connections with others better since you are always in touch. It is a good app to spend your free time and it also let you to become a seller. You can advertise your products easily by other people thanks to it. It makes you popular among the others as well!

As many social apps, it might have side effects as well like, making you addicted, obsessed, some crisis between the relationships and taking so much time. Since it might make you addicted you may forget to do your own errands.

For uploading photos to your Instagram, you can take the photo within the app or use an image from your stored photos. To start tap to ‘’+’’ icon from the bottom and you will get three choices.

Gallery: To select your photos from your device,

Photo: To take by using your camera

Video: To shoot a video from your camera

To make your photos more attractive you can use filters which are available on Instagram. There are lots of choices and they all will make your photos good looked. By tapping ‘’Edit’’ icon you can also edit tools for your photos like, shadows, vignette, tilt shift, sharpen etc.

Instagram recently got focus mode which is for portrait photos and it makes background blurred and focus on the subject. To use it you need to click the camera icon on Instagram and you will see the focusing option between the Boomerang and Superzoom options.

Sharing Your Instagram Photos

When someone post a new photos or videos it is possible to comment on their posts. Since it includes simile you can also add them on your comments.

It is possible sharing your Instagram photos on your other social networking accounts such as, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr.

Tips about Being Popular on Instagram

Some people using Instagram may want to be popular to do that you need to do something such as, using hashtags, having many followers etc.

We can call Instagram as king on the social media apps in nowadays since; it is the most used one and so many users. 

Musical.ly

A social network enabling to create music videos

What is Musical.ly ?

Musically is a popular lip-syncing app. It was created by Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang. Creator team desired to combine music, videos and a social network to attract teens. After working on it they launched Musical.ly in July 2014. It has been very popular since that time. Its user rate is quite a lot and as Zhu said, ‘’You can buy the users, but you can’t buy the user retention.’’

It is a quite popular app that you might come across it on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter etc. You can record yourself by lip syncing, share your own video on different social platforms and browse other people’s work. Musically has color filters and you can change your videos’ color as you wish. You can also mix your music with someone else’s video.

It is very simple to get the app, first of all you need to download it from Google Play Store and click the pink plus button to start. Musical.ly has an online library of the top and you can choose from there. Songs are categorised as hip hop, comedy, movie dialogue and etc. It is also possible choosing songs from your music library.

It has privacy settings part and you can change your settings as you desire. Privacy settings include ‘’animated thumbnails, only friends can direct.ly me, hide location info and private account.’’

Blocking some profiles on that app is possible. You might come across some irritating users and want to block their profile or report abuse. In that case all you have to do is, going to their profile; press on the ‘…’ in the right corner and blocking their profiles. It is also possible unblocking from the same page. By clicking the 3 dots in the right column of the video you can click report abuse.

From the Follow tab you can see videos from the users you follow. Every musically videos shows the user’s username, caption, name of the song and artist. You can also see the popular videos and profiles belonging to users on Musical.ly. Before starting to create videos you need to create your own profile first and you can design it as you wish.

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As a reminder it is not possible deleting your Musical.ly account, of course you can delete your app from your device but others will still see your videos on that app.

Some users like having more followers to become more popular, there are some tips that you can use to get more fans. By click the ‘’leader board’’ button on the search page, you will reach the top users. You need to click one of them and click – unclick the ‘’following’’ button few times. By doing this your fans will be rolling on in.

When you find your video too long to watch, you can cut it out. After prepare your record you need to click the scissors icon from the right corner and cut the video as you wish.

No surprise that it is popular among the teens since, they like being popular on social media and Musical.ly make it quite easy while having so much fun. 

Spotify

Online music platform

What is Spotify?

Spotify is a popular online music app, it was created in 2008. It is free, you just need to have internet to use it. Spotify works on both PC and mobile devices. Normally you do not have to pay any price to have and use Spotify but there some restrictions when you use the free one. Restrictions are like; you cannot choose any song you want, you have to wait for some advertisements, which suddenly showed up while listening music. On premium one, since you pay you do not have those restrictions. You can listen any song you want; you don’t need to have internet connection on you mobile phone, since you can save the songs to listen later. Another advantage is you do not have to wait for the advertisements to pass next song.

Thanks to Shazam-Spotify integration you can listen the songs as free on Spotify.

According to the Spotiy’s announcement in 2013, the most popular woman singer was ‘’Rihanna’’ and among the man he was ‘’Macklemore’’. The most favorite song was ‘’Can’t Hold Us’’.

At first Spotify was free just for first 6 months but now there is not that kind of restriction.

People are tired of listening the same song all the time, Spotify is a great app to help you discovering new popular or old songs. You can also listen on the radio on Spotify. There are lots of and different kinds of radio channels. You will never feel bored during your time spending on Spotify. It is an amazing helper for music lovers. You can find many songs according to your mood such as; morning, jazz, pop, relaxing, party etc. There are different kinds of searching criteria on Spotify, you can try to find music as the name of the song, the name of the album, the name of the singer etc.

How to Use Spotify?

Using Spotify is very simple. You can use it both from IOS and from Android. First, you have to download to app for your device. You can log in both via you Facebook account or you can have a new account on Spotify. When you log in Spotify by your Facebook account, you are allowed to reach your friends’ music lists. On the left top corner of the page there is ‘’Browse’’ button and by clicking it you can discover the most popular songs according to the their types like (pop,rock,jazz,rock,fitness etc.) If you want, you can listen the songs in play mixed mood. There is a follow button and by clicking it, you can add the songs to your playlist. You can reach your playlist from the menu and you can add more songs to there or you can delete the ones you do not like.

Spotify is a great thing letting us to discover new songs from all around the world.

It is also possible downloading songs from Spotify. According to the research, it has more than 60 billion of users. Spotify is a creation from Sweden. The songs playing on the Spotify are actually the ones registered on Sony, EMI, Universal music etc.

Spotify is a great platforms for amateur or popular singers as well, since they can announce their new songs for the first time on there.

You may want to see lyrics while listening to the music on Spotify, which is possible as well. You need to have TuneWiki extension on Spotify to do it. While listening to music by clicking the TuneWiki you can see the lyrics.

It is possible do make specific research by writing just the years’ name to the search place and you will find the songs between those years.

If you want to show your playlists to other people, it is possible to share them or open your profile to let them see.

Spotify is a great app and very popular all around the world, if you are one of the music lovers you should try to have it!

Twitch

A live broadcast platform

What is Twitch?

Twitch is a popular social media platform where gamers stream their game while playing. It has become very popular since it was created. It is a great web site for game addicts to watch other gamers while they are playing. Twitch is popular especially among new generation. Young people prefer to spend their time on Twitch instead of TV shows. They spend at least 3-4 hour in a day. Gamers stream on web site around 6 hours in a day and when they do it they get money. Watchers can give away gamers sometimes as they desire and sometimes it even becomes a heck of a lot of money.

The highest price that was given away on Twitch is $1.000.000. According to the research there are more than 20 billion people using Twitch all around the world and it is known as the best web site for live performance.

How to Use Twitch?

You have to go  http://twitch.tv web site and create an account and by signing up you will reach the main page. You can connect with your Facebook or if you want you can sign up and then log in to reach the main page. For streaming there are some necessaries, your computer settings should be available for it. You also need to have some programs to connect with Twitch for live broadcast. Some of them are XSplit, FFSplit, Wirecast etc.

How to Live Streaming by Using XSplit?

You need to go www.xsplit.com web page and download the program by clicking ‘’Download Latest Version’’ button. After downloading you have to have an account from the www.xsplit.com/#registerBox address. As a reminder you have to pay a price for having the program. You need to log in after the installing part is over. Then from the ‘’Broadcast’’ tab you will reach ‘’Add Channel’’ to add a Twitch channel.

After clicking ‘’Add Channel’’ you need to choose ‘’Twitch/Justin.tv’’ option. You will reach a new page and you need to log in again. You can check your connection by clicking ‘’Test bandwidth’’ button and by clicking ‘’Show Details’’ you can control how good your connection is. If you get a message which is called ‘’your bandwidth to server is probably not sufficient’’ it means your connection won’t be enough for live streaming. You have to make some changes on setting to solve that problem. You have to see a green light on the test screen to understand if your connection is fast enough or not.

When you reach Broadcast tab, you will see the channel you have just added on the ‘’Local Streaming’’. To start a live streaming after start a game, you have to minimize the screen by clicking alt + tab and choose the channel (you added before) by clicking the ‘’Broadcast’’ on the Xsplit. As soon as you choose a live streaming will start. As you see it is a simple process.

The popularity of Twitch has been increasing day by day all around the world and gamers both having fun and winning some prices thanks to it. If you are a game lover too, it might be a good and useful web site for you.