How big would the photos of your last trip take up one after the other?
Should we upload ALL of them to Facebook - including ten from a stray cat, five from your feet on the beach, and twenty from your nephew's chubby cheeks - and get a widespread unfriend ? Do we start adjusting filters like crazy to everything to upload them one by one to Instagram ? Leave them on the card until pete ? Put them in the computer and see how free space is dyed a dangerous red color ? What, lord of the photos, what should we do with this infamous amount of pixels?! Send us a sign!
Am I dramatizing too much? I do not think so. Let's do the test: How many gigabytes of photos have you saved from these vacations? ? OK multiply it by each year you have left to live and you will have a huge pile of snapshots that you will probably never see again, but that you will save "just in case", forever taking up valuable space on your hard drive -internal or external-.
And of course, I suppose you are aware that all those bits can be accidentally erased once and for all for various reasons, call it a virus, call it clumsiness, call it boyfriend wanting to install a game and trashing your Erasmus to London "unintentionally".
In short, what we are: solutions. We have searched around until we found several, so that choose the one that suits you best:
Your Facebook friends can tolerate a limited number of selfies
** DROPBOX :** This multi-platform file hosting service in the cloud (that is, in addition to photos you can also save videos and documents) It doesn't require a bit of work on your part. All you have to do is install it and make sure you save everything you want to keep in the folder named "Dropbox" . You can use it on all your devices to access your files even when you're not online , Y create collaborative documents with, for example, your co-workers.
The best? With the service Carousel (an app they use only for photos) you will have a digital photo gallery organized by date , super intuitive and easy to handle, hyper fast and with various and simple possibilities of share photos with your contacts. And you won't even have to save your photos to a particular folder: everything you photograph with your mobile or tablet is automatically synchronized with Dropbox.
The bad? The free version is only 2gb (expandable up to 18; they give you 500 mb every time a friend makes an account thanks to your invitation) . The pro is worth 10 euros per month (or 99 a year) and offers a terabyte (1000 gb) .
With Dropbox you can take your photos wherever you go
** ICLOUD :** Apple's cloud file service is available for all devices of this brand, as well as for PCs. Its functionalities are, basically, the same ones from Dropbox, though the free gb that they give you for entry are five, In addition to offering you other services, such as mail account, and, as far as the photos are concerned, too an image editor that allows you even prepare them to be printed in a book. Not to mention that they also provide you with a powerful tracker so you can search for your mobile with a GPS service, block it or write a message to the one who finds it from your iCloud account.
The copy of your snapshots and videos (and contacts, and apps, and conversations...) it is done automatically since you say "yes, I do", although, if you use your device a lot, notifications will soon appear warning you that the backup has not been performed for weeks. In the end, five gigabytes are over as fast as a bag of sunflower seeds , so you will end up subscribing to the plan of one euro per month, with which you can get 20gb more; the one of four euros, with 200gb; the one of 10, with 500, or the one of 20 euros per month, which gives you a terabyte.
iCloud makes it easy for you to return to the albums of a lifetime
GOOGLE PHOTOS : Google Photos is the division that interests you if what you want is save and sync your trip snapshots to Google Drive (this company's cloud) . The best news we can give you in this regard is that your space is unlimited. Yes, you read that right, and that's why you just Win a piece of our hearts. The only conditions are that the photos do not exceed 16mp and the videos do not have more than 1080p , but it is quite unlikely that this will happen.
Also, in addition to having the advantages that Dropbox has and some of iCloud (such as the editor), has a very curious functionality: a search engine that detects the things that are in a photo without you having to tag them previously. Namely, you write "flowers" or "food" and the images that contain those elements appear , as they explain to us.
Google Photos also has another quite interesting feature, and that is e create animated visual stories with your photos. In other words, use all the information on your mobile (location of the snapshots, friends that appear in them, etc.) create movies of your life without you having to lift a finger. It's fun to watch but It gives a little scary to think that with the information that is in your Android they can assemble all this. If you want to try it, Enter here with the gmail account you use on your mobile and you will see!
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