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Cheap memory cards from unverified manufacturers flooded store shelves. The only trouble with such drives is their unreliability and short lifespan. How often have you lost photos, videos and other files important to you just because the card just stopped working? To avoid such losses in the future, you can go in two ways: every evening, upload all files from your phone to your computer, or provide everything to your phone and set up cloud sync once.

Yes, I know, you have heard many times about cloud services, clouds, cloud synchronization, but your hands never got around to picking it up and doing it. Which cloud to choose? What is the difference between them? Do I have to pay money for this? Let's figure it out right now.

The cloud is essentially, if you do not go into details, your fail-safe flash drive, to which you are connected via the Internet, to which the important files you specify are automatically saved and to which you have access from any device if it is connected to the network.

Such "online flash drives" differ in the amount of space provided to the user, in ease of use and in a number of additional options. If you are going to use cloud storage simply to store files there from your phone or computer, as well as share them with your friends or colleagues, then the free space that the developers offer you will be enough for you. The only difference here is how much space this or that company offers.

1. Google Drive

Known to all Google service provides every Google user with a 15 gigabyte disk. For many, the application for working with this cloud service is already built into the firmware. Moreover, most of the users with a Google drive preinstalled in the firmware of their smartphone already have backups your photos in the cloud, maybe even those that need to be deleted, until no one has seen - after all, the Google drive unobtrusively selects all photos from the device and puts them in the cloud storage.

In general, if you close your eyes to this wayward behavior of his and take a closer look at the possibilities, then in addition to the backup of photos, the Google drive can work with text files, tables and presentations. However, for this you will need to install additional applications. Also, the disk can play video files without downloading them to the device and, most importantly, since we are talking primarily about photos, the disk offers to store photos in a compressed format, for which unlimited storage space is provided. That is, if you agree to Google Drive to process your photo, reducing the original size, then you can put an unlimited number of photos on your cloud drive for free. All you need to do is connect your Google account to start using the drive.

You can download Google Drive for mobile and PC at download page

2. Dropbox

One of the most popular cloud drives. The service provides "as much" as 2 gigabytes - the smallest amount of free space for today among all cloud services. The creators of the cloud strongly demand money for everything - you will have to pay for almost any additional options, so be aware that even these 2 free gigabytes allocated to you are watered with a generous capitalist tear. In addition to the scanty volume, Dropbox uses a special and only folder for synchronization. The mobile application takes up twice as much space as the application of the same Google Drive, but at the same time it can only synchronize one folder, and even then - after the obligatory installation of another application on your computer. But, nevertheless, the cloud has many fans. A big significant advantage of the service is its interaction with third-party applications. Many readers sync bookmarks of books via Dropbox, password managers are also able to store user files in the Dropbox cloud, and if now the competitive environment in the cloud services market allows you to choose the preferred cloud for syncing in some applications, then old users accustomed to Dropbox are unlikely to will they move to new clouds: habit is strong. And you still have a choice, but if 2 free gigabytes are enough for you and are satisfied with the forced installation of an application for a computer to enable cloud sync, then this cloud is for you.

The Dropbox client can be downloaded for both PC and mobile devices

3. Mega

Mega cloud web interface screenshot

A cloud known for its increased security through browser-based end-to-end encryption. Because of this very increased protection, you will not be able to reset your password and if you lose it, you will have to say goodbye to your data and create a new account. And this data in a free account of the Mega service can be stored as much as 50 gigabytes. The cloud is distinguished by its high speed, an original way of downloading files using a browser and, as I wrote above, a high degree of protection. Has apps for all popular operating systems, but, interestingly and strangely, it is blocked in Kazakhstan. But only the Mega.nz website is blocked, you can easily synchronize your files using the mobile application, and open the cloud drive on your computer through the Chrome extension. Today it is the simplest, most convenient and large cloud disk provided for free. It does not support video streaming due to file encryption, but it allows you to store many photos and files and also share them with people of your choice.

It is convenient to use on a computer chrome extension or an app for Windows ... There are also applications for Mac and Linux ... And on a smartphone, depending on the system, you can install an application for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.

4. Yandex.Disk

Screenshot of the Yandex.Disk web interface

The Russian search giant keeps its nose in the wind and does not lag behind trends, because a disk from Yandex is no less convenient service than from the same Google, only it provides a little less space - 10 gigabytes. The mobile application is able to synchronize your camera folder, transferring each new photo to the cloud storage and leaving it there until you delete it yourself. The developers even provided a basket in their cloud service, from which you can install by mistake deleted files... An application for a computer is no longer just a client for synchronizing with a disk, but a whole combine with various functions. One of them is screenshots of Yandex. If you constantly take screenshots of your computer or part of it, then it is worth installing a program for Windows. Also, the application for the computer allows you to view most multimedia and text file formats and has a small built-in graphics editor.

The application can be downloaded for all popular operating systems on the download page of the official website.

5. Cloud Mail.Ru

Another search giant and another cloud storage. If you have a mail.ru account, then you already have your own personal cloud of 25 gigabytes. You can set up auto-upload of photos from the camera folder or enable search and upload to the cloud of all folders from your gallery. Just like other sophisticated modern cloud services, it can play video files from the cloud without downloading to the device.

All application installation files are collected on download page.

6. Copy.com

15 gigabytes. But you can increase the size of the cloud to 25 gigabytes by sending referral links to friends. For every registered friend, you get 5 gigabytes. And, what's great, you and him get these 5 gigabytes. It's bad that it is impossible to register in the cloud from a mobile application - you need to go through the registration procedure on a computer or in a browser. But in the mobile application you can select any folders for synchronization and the files you specify will be saved to the cloud, from where you can not only download them at any time, but also give a link to the photo to any person. As with other services, there is no need to download a video file to your device from the cloud to view it.

The cloud is available on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mac, and Linux. There is also a web interface.

And I would like to separately highlight the cloud drives created specifically for storing photos from mobile devices. They do not have client programs for PC, or there are, but in them you can only get acquainted with the contents and see the remaining space, because their main purpose is precisely the safety of your photos. But such cloud services provide a large amount of storage for files. Among them, I would like to highlight two applications.

1. QuickPic

It was originally a picture viewer app for smartphones, but after the purchase of this app by the Chinese company Cheetah Mobile, which created programs such as Clean Master, Battery Doctor and CM Security, QuickPic Gallery now has the ability to automatically save your photos to the CM cloud, where you can register with your account Google or Facebook. Initially, 2 gigabytes of cloud space are available, but for each invited user Cheetah Mobile is given another 1000 gigabytes. The maximum free cloud storage is 5,000 gigabytes.

You can also get to the cloud from a PC by following this link ... In the cloud web interface, you can view your photos, which for some reason are in the "Clean Master" folder. You cannot add anything to the cloud from a computer. But you can download photos from the cloud by ticking the necessary ones. Convenient, simple and spacious cloud.

Deego has a PC client with which you can save the folders you need from your smartphone to your computer. But this client does not work in the best way, and in order to deal with it, it took a decent amount of man-hours of our editorial staff. However, I would like to believe that in the future the interface will be improved and simplified, but for now, remember the full paths to your photos and carefully monitor where the application saves the files you are recovering. It is possible that such an inconvenient desktop client came out because the Degoo cloud strives to become fully mobile, and the PC app is just a tribute to the old regime, and soon we will see even more services independent of the PC. Applications that work only with mobile devices are the first signs of progress that is relentlessly moving us away from stationary computers.

You can download the application only on Android and PC. Degoo doesn't have an iOS app yet.

- an application that allows you to save your data in the cloud storage. Calls, contacts, SMS messages and other things are available for saving. It is possible to customize what you want to save. Naturally, for this you need to create a profile in this application. But on the other hand, you will always be sure that thousands of contacts will never be lost, even if something happened to your mobile device... Currently, many users are starting to use cloud storage, all this will allow you to quickly and most importantly securely save your data.

However, be careful when choosing cloud storage. It is worth choosing services only from trusted and large companies. After all, unverified people can use your data as they please. Therefore, we advise you to think before uploading data to obscure services. However, this application is trustworthy. Therefore, you can not worry and feel free to use the application. It will help you out in a difficult situation and will help you restore absolutely all contacts.

As you can see from the screenshots, the application is completely in Russian. Also, you shouldn't have any problems with mastering. For this, the program has become widespread among users, and they also speak only positively about it. The application is made conscientiously and features high performance, reliability, stability.
You can customize a very convenient option if you want. We are now talking about automatic backups. It happens absolutely independently, all that requires from the user is to configure the start time and copy objects once. After that, the application will copy in the background and keep the data up to date in the cloud.

As a result, it is a very useful application that will copy all your contacts to its server and will be able to keep them intact and safe. Most users start to protect their personal contacts this way. Therefore, we recommend this program for use.

CM Backup - Safe Cloud Is a free cloud file copying tool for Android phone or tablet. Sooner or later, software bugs will take us by surprise. And we will not have access to the desired image, to SMS-messages and other personal data. Therefore, you need to back up and store the data separately from the device in advance. It is for such purposes that this file backup program exists.

Even if such an unpleasant situation as the loss of your phone happens, then all the data will remain with you. After all, all files will be stored on the server, not on the device. By default, you are given 5 GB, if you need more, you will need to pay.

Sooner or later, each user was caught off guard by hardware or software bugs that could result in data loss. Therefore, you should take care of the safety of files in advance. Cloud safe is sensible and extremely useful program to back up photos, contacts, messages and other personal information. The backup can be carried out both at our request and according to the plan, for example, you can configure that the backup is carried out every day at 23:00 and at this time all data will be copied to the server, and upon completion you will receive a notification that the copying was successful.

Features of the Safe Cloud application on Android:

• backup and restore: SMS, photos, calendar events, browser bookmarks, video, avatar, call log, input method;
• you are given 5 GB for free;
• reduction of the size of photos by 90%;
• convenient system for multiple accounts;
• file transfers and downloads are protected by strong encryption to ensure safe storage;
• full SMS backup and recovery;
• set a copy schedule;
• fast backup in just 0.08 sec .;
• repeated data filters.

Free Download CM Backup - Safe Cloud without registration and SMS via the direct link below.

CM Backup is a cloud backup application created by the developers already known to us, which I wrote about earlier (I advise you to read the article if you have not already done so 🙂).

But back to our program. For copies of your data, CM cloud gives you 5 GB free of charge. For a fee, it is possible to increase the space up to 1 TB, but, in my opinion, this is not so necessary. Let me explain why.

CM Backup is not a cloud in the sense that it is Google Drive or, for example. The five gigabytes that you have there, you can use exclusively for creating a backup on your Android device.

Moreover, you can not backup all the contents of your gadget, but only:

- contacts;

- call log

- SMS messages (I'll write about this in more detail below);

- your photos;

- calendar events;

- your alarms;

- your personal dictionary;

- browser bookmarks.

What I liked was the clear interface, the presence of the Russian language (which Asian developers cannot always boast of, which, however, is understandable - they have more than 🙂 enough for their market), rather fast data transfer speed, the ability to set a backup schedule. In addition, your data is encrypted (AES-256) as it is transferred, downloaded, and stored on Amazon S3 servers. And this is very reliable.

Another interesting feature - you can reduce the size of your photos on the device by 90% after backing up the originals.

And now a few words about what I didn't like. When I moved to another smartphone, I noticed that everything was copied except SMS. To transfer messages, CM Backup offered to install some kind of SMS application. And no options. I had to agree, but after the messages were transferred, again set your favorite by default. As a result, SMS remained intact. The main question - how to transfer contacts to Android, has been resolved after all. And I was especially pleased with the call log, which also migrated to a new device 🙂

I advise you to try the CM Backup cloud and decide for yourself whether to stay on it, or on alternative solutions, which are now offered a lot.

With frequent photo and video shooting from a mobile, it becomes necessary to store the received images and videos somewhere. The smartphone itself is not the best place to store it, since this method is not very reliable, the memory card can easily fail or simply get lost due to its small size. Perhaps the most optimal place for storing files is a remote server or cloud, where you can not only organize the content into folders, but also do post-processing - remove red-eye, retouch or adjust the brightness of the color gamut of the photo. With a video, in turn, you can perform cropping or simple editing, adding sequential overlay frames or applying a number of effects. Of course, the choice of options for editing or post-processing is quite small, and significantly inferior to such standards as Adobe Premiere or Photoshop, but for quick editing, the capabilities built into the cloud storage will be quite enough. Today we will talk about two more services for remote storing files in the cloud, where you can quickly copy the results of your work directly from your mobile, and do it through the usual Mobile Internet if you haven't got 3G or LTE connection yet. This article is a follow-up to what we posted on cloud services like a month ago, where we went into the details of the advantages and disadvantages of these two incredibly user-friendly web applications.

Irista - Canon's Ultimate Product

Official page on the web - link

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Official page in App Store — link

Cloudy software solution from the leader of the photography industry is not well known among the user masses. Initially, it was intended for owners of Canon cameras that support direct uploading of frames to the server with the possibility of their further structured ordering in the form of photo albums. In reality, the program had the ability to download RAW and JPEG images taken with a camera or any other manufacturer. In October last year, the European department of Canon presented to the public Irista programs for Android and iOS, which expand the capabilities of the web service. From now on, owners of portable gadgets will also be able to use Irist to upload photos to Canon's cloud storage, where up to 15 gigs of disk space is available for free. Currently, you can only upload photos to Irista. As for videos, the authors promise to add the ability to store videos in the near future.

What is this service? In fact, this is an ordinary cloud storage that allows you to automatically download photos from your phone's memory card, from a Windows or Mac-based computer (using a special client utility), as well as from any social networks... In fact, Irista is very different from other analog applications in its social focus. By connecting your Google+, Facebook, Outlook or Flickr account, you can automatically download photos from any of them. The function of creating galleries, opening them to general access and generating links for viewing by users who are not registered in the system is also available.

All photos can be tagged geographically or semantically. After adding tags, photos can be easily structured and grouped into thematic groups, which is directly reflected in the navigation and transition between galleries.

Additional gadgets (such as editing tools, the ability to restore images that have been deleted, sorting and other functions designed to facilitate the organization of photos) are completely absent in the service. Nevertheless, the program is quite stable and is actively developing - literally every two weeks the manufacturer releases regular updates, as a result new functions appear and old ones are tested, as a result of which Irista feels great on far from the latest phone models. Copying and storing files in the cloud is very high-quality here, no quibbles about the main functions and modules of the service can be presented. Everything works like clockwork. A great and simple addition to the web version, which is slowly gaining market share not only from Canon owners, but also from other amateur photographers.

QuickPic cloud - best gallery for smartphone

Official page on Google Play - link

Perhaps the best multimedia gallery that can be found in the official store for Android. This time, developers from the Middle Kingdom from the Cheetah Mobile company managed to create an excellent gallery with backup functions, an excellent structure for storing multimedia objects, integrated mechanisms for editing photos and other incredibly useful features. From other analogs in the field of cloud storage of files in the cloud, namely photos and videos, the QuickPic server favorably stands out for its functional power, speed, compactness and ultra-simplicity.

One of the main features of the service is the ability to connect almost any cloud storage, from Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive to less famous in our area Amazon, Baidu, Box, Flickr and other servers (moreover, you can work with all of them literally in one window without leaving the main working form). This approach immediately resonates with an attentive user who values ​​convenience and simplicity when working with galleries, using a minimum of clicks and taps.

If you do not want to connect an external cloud, you can use the internal QuickPic storage called "CM Cloud". In reality, this is a hardware solution based on server racks from Amazon. Its only and most important drawback is the small amount of disk space. By default, all registered users are allocated only 2 GB of free space on the server, which is quite a bit if you prefer to keep your photos uncompressed. Therefore, there is no need to do without third-party storages. You can read about each of them in detail in our articles (here and there).

Another valuable innovation that appeared in version 4.0 is the backup auto-copying of photos to the cloud when working with the service. Of course, in addition to the fully automatic method, all the same operations can be done manually by clicking just one icon on the panel and selecting the "Copy" item in the context menu.

Working with folders is also a pleasure. Each time you launch QuickPic, the application automatically scans the internal and external memory of the smartphone for the presence of multimedia objects, and adds them to the main working window so that the user knows exactly where the pictures and videos are on his device. This feature allows you to structure images in the storage in strict accordance with their location on the device. It will not be difficult to create a new working directory in order to subsequently place new pictures in it.

What image editing tools are available in QuickPic for Android? The user has the right to change the graphic resolution of the image, crop it (by following the proportional dimensions or changing the image resolution), rotate it 90-180 degrees in any direction, and also superimpose a mirror image of the image in any plane.

In general, QuickPic deserves a lot of flattering reviews due to the constant improvement of its brainchild by its Chinese comrades, excellent optimization and successful work without any noticeable lags, even on entry-level smartphones. A very convenient client, even despite the minimum number of drawbacks (a small amount of space on a proprietary server for storing files in the cloud, the possible appearance of duplicates when using multiple storages).

This cycle did not touch upon the most famous services (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Yandex.Disk), but we have already described them earlier, and working with images in them practically does not differ from interacting with all other file structures. In addition to the services described above, the use of more iconic and well-known analogs that allow for the storage of files in the cloud would be quite appropriate.