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Some Neat Apps in 2018

2018 is gone. Gone with the wind. Here's a few apps that I found very useful:

Google Keep

I discovered this one by accident. It keeps your notes. That's not very interesting except it stores them in one repository on the cloud no matter whether you enter the notes on your phone or via web. Very very useful after keeping notes on my phone and losing them when the phone crashed and had to be factory-reset. You can install as an app from the Google Play Store. I presume an IOS version exists as  well.

4K Downloader

This one was so useful, I paid some $$ for it. It downloads Youtube videos unattended and you can set the quality and the download folder. It even detects if your video link belong to a playlist and downloads the entire playlist. I even downloads new videos automatically if you subscribe to the channel. And it can do 8k.

And its on IOS and Linux

And it can download from other video sites

And more.
 
There is a free version that works fine as long as you do not need to download more than 25 videos at once.

Allway Sync

I just discovered this one. Again, after Windows 10 erased an entire user directory, I learned that the most unsafe place to keep your files on your PC/Laptop. Fortunately I had some online (incomplete) backups. One software project was lost. Very unpleasant. Have to restart almost from scratch.

 Allway Sync synchronizes local files and directories with those on the backup site that includes all the serious cloud storage providers as well as DropBox, Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive. Its free for personal use. It could save your live...

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