Tag Archives: download

Digi.me Version 7.0.4 Is Now Available

Announcements, , , , , , , ,

Digi.me version 7.0.4 was released yesterday evening and many of you will see the release notes when you are asked to upgrade to it.  In this release we have made some major alterations to how we interact with Facebook due to Facebook no longer supporting Facebook Messages download and Facebook Friends download.  All previously downloaded data will of course still be available.

We have added additional language support to our PDF export functionality and improved the Top Bar features throughout the app.  With upgrading digi.me to use the new Facebook API syncronising your personal data is now even faster than before capturing those precious moments forever.

To ensure peace of mind remember to always back up your social media data as you never quite know when your social media providers are going to change how and what data you have access to.

 

It’s Your Life – Tweeting With the Stars: The Oscars

Fun, , , , , , , , , , , ,

This weekend brings us The Oscars and along with that comes a flutter of anticipation on social media.  Whether you are a celebrity awaiting the winners announcement or someone who is a bit of a movie buff you can feel the tension rising as this week goes on! To help get you into the spirit of the event we wanted to share how you can interact with your favourite celebrities during this exciting time!

Many people want to share that anticipation with celebrities that they follow on Twitter but very few of us ever get a direct response back.  But when you do that moment is magical!  So how do you go about doing it?

  1. Make your tweet memorable.
  2. Share something that will make them laugh, cry or go aaaaawww!
  3. Include an image in your tweet. (but make sure it is appropriate)
  4. Join in with conversations that the celebrity is having online.
  5. Be aware that some celebrities only ever broadcast out and don’t respond. (You’ll never get a response from these)
  6. Consider challenging the celebrity.
  7. Don’t spam them.
  8. Don’t resend your message loads of times.

If you were a celebrity and it was your life, what would you respond to and why?

If you do manage to inspire a celebrity interaction you will probably want to capture the moment forever.  Download Digi Me and save that moment forever!

Like Instagram? Like Tweetdeck? Then You Need ‘Picdeck’ In Your Life

Discussion, Fun, , , , , , , , ,

While Instagram is a predominately mobile based service, there are a few desktop applications that add value or enhance the user experience. Obviously there is Instagram.com, the official website for Instagram that allows you to view your feed as if it were on your phone, as well as letting you leave comments and like photos. And of course there is SocialSafe, which allows you to back up your Instagrams and use the Insights feature to see which of your photos are the most popular, and discover more about your use of filters.

But now a new desktop app is tracking the same approach to Instagram as Tweetdeck did to Twitter.

Picdeck allows you to set your own columns of feeds on a web-based dashboard, based on either users or hashtags, as well as your own feed as you’d normally see it within the app (or on the desktop version). All you need to do is to go to Picdeck.co and sign in with your Instagram login ID, then start creating feeds!

picdeck for instagram

As you’ll see, the aesthetic is very similar to other social media dashboards such as Tweetdeck or Hootsuite, so it should be comfortably familiar for most people. Picdeck does however lack the posting functionality that is a hallmark of the aforementioned social media dashboards, nor does Picdeck allow you to add more than one account (giving you multiple instances of ‘My Feed’.

These features may well appear in the fullness of time, and it’s worth pointing out that Picdeck is the product of a one-day hack-day project by London-based company Marvel. So given more development time, this could easily go a lot further, and according to The Verge, Marvel already has plans to add location-based columns and other features.

Have you used Picdeck? What are your first thoughts? Comment below, let us know!

How To Back Up Your Instagram Hyperlapse Videos

Announcements, Tips & Tricks, Using Digi Me, , , , , , , ,

Instagram has just released Hyperlapse – a standalone app allowing you to create simple time-lapse videos – and with SocialSafe you can back these up to your own library, along with any comments and likes.

Hyperlapse is pretty much as simple as point, shoot, share, except you get to choose the speed at which the movie plays. Aside from the variable clip speed, the only other frill is the automated video stabilisation that should hopefully avert any motion sickness you might encounter from particularly shaky camera work. If you choose to share the video in Instagram, then you can add as filters as you would with any other Instagram video.

In a blog post announcing the new app, Instagram said: “We designed Hyperlapse to be as simple as possible.”

There’s no need to sign up either.  Once you’ve recorded your clip and chosen the speed (you can choose from 1x, 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x, or 12x), the video is saved to your camera roll and you then have option to share it to Facebook or Instagram. So there’s no need to worry about building up your followers/friends on a new platform.

Want to see Hyperlapse in action?

20 Creative Hyperlapses From Instagram’s New App

What this also means is that if you publish your videos to Instagram, you can back up Hyperlapse videos with SocialSafe! Just as existing Instagram photos and videos can be downloaded to your SocialSafe library, any Hyperlapse videos you publish to Instagram will also be backed up – along with the comments and likes.

If you’re using our Instagram companion app ‘Likes’ (available in the app store – only for iOS at this moment), you’ll also be able to save to your iPhone any Hyperlapse videos from other users that you have liked on Instagram.

You can back up your own Instagram account, as well as your content from a number of other social networks, by downloading the SocialSafe desktop app.

VIDEO GUIDE: Search Your Instagram Captions, Comments, Tags and #Hashtags

Tips & Tricks, Using Digi Me, , , , , , , ,

One of the cool things you can do when you download your Instagram photos to SocialSafe is to search through them by keyword or hashtag. When viewing your Instagrams within SocialSafe you can click on the Search box on the left hand side of the top bar and enter the word, name or phrase you’d like to find.

Here’s a very short video showing you how to Search Your Instagram Captions, Tags and #Hashtags:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWPET6l3VxI&feature=youtu.be]

Any photos containing your chosen search term will be displayed. Hovering over an image will show you how many comments, tags and/or likes it has, and clicking on the image will open it up in a larger view, where you will be able to see the caption, any comments, who has liked your photo and any tags associated with it.

You can also change the date range [not demonstrated in this video] to only show you images from any of the preset time periods (eg Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days, Last Year etc), or set your own custom date range.

For more tutorial videos, including how to print your Instagrams as PDFs, please refer to the SocialSafe YouTube Channel where the other aspects and functionality of the SocialSafe application are covered in greater detail.

VIDEO GUIDE – Create PDFs Of Your Favourite Instagrams

Tips & Tricks, Using Digi Me, , , ,

Earlier this week we added another tutorial video to our YouTube channel. Most of you should hopefully know how to create PDFs of your Instagrams with SocialSafe, but for anyone who doesn’t, this video should make it clear:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fIAKeLNu9I]

As you see, it’s very simple. When viewing your Instagrams through either the Account View or the Photo View, you can click on the PDF and Collections button in top-right corner of the app to enable content selection. Either select your Instagrams manually by clicking on individual images, or select them all by clicking the small tick now in the top-right corner.

Once you’re happy with your selection,  click on the ‘Export to PDF’ button on the left of the top bar, and choose where you’d like to save your PDF of your Instagrams. Once the file has been created it will open automatically, displaying your photos in chronological order, along with any tags, comments and likes.

Why not create a PDF of all your Instagrams that a friend has liked, and then send it to them?

Look Back for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google+ And More

Discussion, Tips & Tricks, Using Digi Me, , , , , , ,

Last week Facebook celebrated its 10th birthday and reversed the normally observed tradition on such days, by giving everyone else a present – A Look Back. You’ve probably watched you own Facebook Movie, or at least will have seen them cropping up in your News Feed as a result of your friends sharing them, as Facebook Look Back videos have been shared almost 100 million times.

Everyone loves a good highlights reel or recap, and the massive number of shares is testament to that fact. But that’s just Facebook taking an educated guess at what it thinks should be in your highlights reel… I’m sure there must have been the odd awkward moment when someone shared their Facebook Movie only for their husband or wife to watch it and see that a picture of their spouses’ ex made the cut into the ‘highlights’ of the last 10 years…

What if you could go through your most popular content from not just Facebook but across all your social networks, picking out the bits that you want to add to your own collection of special memories? With SocialSafe you can do just that.

Get your whole life in one place by downloading your social network content to your own machine, creating your library of you. Within the journal you are able to search across all your content, adding items to Collections as you go, and also use Insights to see the most popular updates and photos from any of your networks over custom or preset time periods.

Once you’ve gone through and selected your own personal collection of memories – whether they include Facebook Messages, Tweets, Instagram Photos, Wall Post or whatever you choose – you can then export them all to a lovely PDF that you can share with those who mater to you the most. And because SocialSafe can automatically add new content to your library, you’ll have the ability to add fresh memories to your existing collections whenever you like.

Watch our video guides to learn more about PDF Export and Collections, and download SocialSafe for free to get all your life in one place.

SocialSafe Video Guides: How To Download Instagram Videos

Tips & Tricks, Using Digi Me, , , , , , , , , ,

Last week we told you all about SocialSafe v6.5.8 which now allows you to download your Instagram videos to your SocialSafe journal, where they can be viewed, searched and exported, just like your other content.

We’ve recently put together a short video as part of our SocialSafe Features Guide series, which shows you how you can interact with your Instagram videos within SocialSafe:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZjAWVsFXvk align’center’]

Your Instagram videos are backed up the same way as your Instagram photos, and all the captions, comments, tags and likes are also downloaded to your SocialSafe journal, and they can be searched just as you would do with any of your other content.

If you’re already backing up Instagram photos with SocialSafe, any videos that you create will be downloaded to your own machine whenever you sync. If you don’t currently use SocialSafe and want a way to download Instagram videos and photos, get the SocialSafe free trial from our website. We also have a video that shows you how to download Instagram photos, which includes how to add an Instagram account to SocialSafe for the first time.

Get creative!