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B+W3OK, so after many months of
perseverance and many hours of
practice, your Beloved Partner FINALLY
gets the hang of the unicycle. As he or
she lurches along in fits of giggles you
reach for your phone to take the
definitive picture, or the nice little video,
only to be told that it is ‘unable to take
the picture as you do not have enough
available space on your phone’. REALLY
annoying. However, help is at hand...
and it won’t cost you a penny.
The people responsible for the
excellent Dropbox app have just
released the BRILLIANT app Carousel.
You will need a Dropbox account to
activate it. This is no problem as it iseasy to set up and free. Either download
the IOS or Android app or visit the
website dropbox.com.
Once you have signed up you can also
download Dropbox to your computer,
which is something I find I use all the
time. Dropbox accounts start with 2Gb
of free storage. OK, not an enormous
amount, but you’re going to get an extra
3Gb of free space as soon as you sign
up to Carousel, taking it up to 5Gb.
Dropbox is very useful for storing all
sorts of things up in your cloud. If you
need extra space, as I have discovered
I do, you can upgrade to Dropbox Pro
for $9.99 a month. This gives you a
whopping 1Tb (that’s 1,000Gb!).The Carousel app (also available for
IOS and Android) lets you take this
storage one step further. With it you can
easily browse your mobile photography,
use it like a mini-portfolio, and share
pictures to your heart’s content.
Carousel instantly backs up every
picture you take via Wi-fi or your data
network – just use your settings to
choose which. So, whenever you want,
you can delete all the pictures from
your camera roll, secure in the
knowledge that they are safe and sound
in your cloud on Carousel. You never
need to miss a picture again.
Really useful, easy to use and free!
What’s not to like?REALLY USEFUL APPS
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