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50% off digi.me: #2 (of 12) reasons to love us – universal search!

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Posting different parts of our lives to the different social networks and friends that cater for them can be lots of fun – but a huge pain when it comes to trying to find an elusive post or picture, right?

So, on the second day of Christmas my true love brought for me – universal search!

Yes, among the dozens of clever things you can do with digi.me, universal search is undoubtedly one of the cleverest.

So what do we mean by universal? Simply that you can search across all networks. Need to know if you wore your favourite Christmas dress to a party last year? What present you bought for your loved one (maybe even who your loved one was at that point?) digi.me can help. Simply fire up the app, hit the magnifying glass search icon in the top left and away you go.

You can narrow your search down if you’ve got a good idea about where what you are looking for might be found, or you can search everywhere if you don’t.

And not only will digi.me quickly and speedily find what you’re looking for from all your backed up accounts and the entire date range that your personal library spans, but we’ll then give you options of what you can do with that information.

Of course, you can just delight in the fact that you don’t need a new Christmas jumper as no pictures of last year’s exist (as if!), but you can also add your long-forgotten post to an existing collection of content, or create a new one (both exciting premium features). And you can even export it as a PDF or to Evernote – so many choices, so many options, it’s like Christmas has come early (hoho!).

And if that doesn’t sound tempting enough, digi.me premium also offers the chance to add up to 20 accounts.

Sound tantalisingly tempting? Then head over to our download page to bag your Christmas bargain now!

 

Friday Fun: Bring Back The Sun

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Inevitably the school holidays start and the children are back at home for the 6 weeks of summer and the first thing that happens is it rains! What do you do… You can’t exactly send them outside to play in the rain and unless they are little they seem to be glued to the TV or computer.

Since we aren’t miracle workers here and can’t bring the sun back we thought we would bring you some top tips for how to find things for your children to do using your social networks.

My favourite resource for this is actually Pinterest because so many parents have had the same issue and the best of the resources have been pinned so many times that they come to the surface really easily.  So your first point of call is to do a Pinterest search for rainy day activities.  Just remember to try and give an age approximation – 18 month old, toddler, teenager etc. that way you will find the most appropriate pins.

Sometimes just browsing through your Facebook profile helps as you may see other parents have done some activities that you could do with your children. Make sure you like or leave a comment so that you can find these again another day. (You can always use the digi.me search feature to find them again then. Facebook search doesn’t tend to be much help unfortunately)

I don’t tend to find Twitter that useful for finding ideas and activities unless I ask my followers.  Sometimes it is just worth asking people to see what things they come up with.  Maybe ask what activities they did as a child on a rainy day.  That always comes back with some great suggestions.

What top tips do you have for those wet and rainy summers days when the children are full of energy…

Friday Fun: A Personal One

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When it comes to having fun and enjoying ourselves we all want to come up with the ultimate weekend plans.  We look to one another for inspiration and ideas.  What better place to look for those ideas than on our social media networks.

This weeks Friday fun is one of working out what really makes us smile at a weekend.  What is it that we each love doing. Use digi.me to look back over your old social network content and see what fun things you have done last summer or even the summers before that for ideas about what you want to do this weekend.

I took a look at my own social media history and it jogged my memory that there is a country fete that is on this weekend every year that it would be nice to take my son to so that is now my plan! Let us know what plans you are making!

How to Make Most of Festival Photo’s

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Were you at a festival this weekend or plan to be at some point over the summer, then this article is just what you need.  This articles shares some of our top tips for how you can use your festival photo’s from this year and past years in creative and fun ways.

First of all you need to grab a copy of all your festival photo’s.  You can do that in a few different ways, grab them from your phone, camera etc directly or if you have shared them online and aren’t sure where you had them originally that’s fine. Download digi.me, sync your social media accounts and then do a search or two to find the pictures you are after.  You may need to do a date range search or you may just need to search for the name of the festival. It depends what you put in the description when you uploaded the pics.

Once you have the copy of your pictures you can start doing all sorts of things with them.

  • You could make a photo collage with them and put it in a frame.
  • Make a photo book of your festival highlights to leave on the coffee table for when friends come round.
  • Turn your pics into a photo clock with a picture for each hour of the day.
  • Put all your photo’s into a digital photo frame and see those festival moments all summer long.
  • Set your festival photo’s folder as your screensaver or screen background and see those special moments unfold.
  • Create a video of your festival photo’s and share it with your friends on social media.

Do you have other ideas of what you could do with your festival pictures! Share them with us and we’ll add them to our list!

Friday Fun: 3, 2, 1…

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This Friday we thought we would have some fun by sharing with you three features that our users really love!

3. PDF Export: Save all your social media content forever by exporting it into a PDF. You can print it, share it or just save it in case you need it one day.

2. Search: You can’t find a picture online but can’t remember if you shared it on Twitter, Facebook or Instergram but you know you shared it… try a quick search on digi.me and you’ll soon find what you were looking for!

1. Journal: People love the journal as a great way to look back over their content, filtering it by date or just looking back a year from now.

Bonus!

We have just added the ability for you to now export your social media data to Evernote as well! Next to that all important PDF icon is now the Evernote elephant logo. Click on it and try it out! Let us know what you think!

If you aren’t already using digi.me why not try it out for free!

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See our user survey results for more digi.me insights!

Friday Fun: Advanced Social Search

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Did you know that with digi.me you can search not just all of your social media updates but also specific parts of your social media content?  For example you could search for the phrase “social media” within profiles to find all those people who have described their interests as including social media.

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To find advanced search. Click on the magnifying glass icon next to “All accounts” & select advanced. Here you can select the different types of content within each account.

You can even search the text associated with just images if you are looking for a specific image. Imagine the scenario that you shared an image or liked and image and left a comment but you can’t find it again.  Use the social search to find that image by just searching the photo’s shared via Facebook and Instagram.

What would you use the advanced search features for and how could you see this being useful for you?

Friday Fun: You and your passions

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Everyone is passionate about something.  Here in the Digi Me office our team really have a range of passions and interests ranging from music and films through to extreme sports such as diving and rock climbing. We all share pictures and updates about those things that we are most passionate about!

This week we want you to share your passions with us!  Go into Digi Me and search out one image that really sums up what you are passionate about and share it with us!

You can share your picture either through Facebook or Twitter or just drop a link to it in the comment box below.  If we get 10 responses we will share some of our teams pics with you in return!

Guest Post: Digi Me a Photographer’s Perspective

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This is a guest post by Abigail Hobbs.  Abigail is a student with a keen passion for photography and social media.

I’m going to do something  a little bit different today, talk about software rather than photography however the software does link in well to the art of photography.

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Digi Me is a software that allows you to keep all your social networking activities in one place. To begin with, for people like me who are very much into the social networking scene this software is brilliant. I linked my Facebook, Twitter and both of my Instagram accounts to it and now whenever I log onto my laptop I can see what I was up to a year ago, two years ago or even the year I first set up my social networking profiles. It stores all your data and posts in one safe place on your computer…think of it as your own personal ‘cloud’ featuring your social story. Yes I know on the face of it, it sounds as if I have allowed a company to intrude into my personal space but I really haven’t. It is controlled and owned by me and just me.

Not only is it a storage tool, but also an organisational tool. One thing I like about it is that it brings together all your different networks into one location and places daily activities (if there are any) into your own personal journal. For instance I can look back to March 2013 and see all activity for that month or choose a particular day or week. It has allowed me to go right back to when I first set up my various profiles and also enabled me to  reminisce on some memories!

With regards to photography, it is good to see what posts were particularly successful and which ones were not. I can also access all the photos I have ever posted and save them directly to my computer rather than having to go onto the individual sites and download the images from there.

I myself am an iPhone user and the makers of Digi Me cater for people like me. They offer two free apps; ‘Keepsies’ which allows you to download and save your Instagram photos to your phone and ‘Likes’ which allows iPhone users to download the photos they like on Instagram to their phone. I tried both of these apps and in my opinion I found them quite pointless. Instagram already has a feature in which you can download the photos you post automatically from Instagram to your phone and I find the idea of ‘Likes’ just a bit strange. I don’t like the idea that just because I have liked something on Instagram that I should have it saved to my iPhone. It takes up storage which is already fairly limited on iPhones and the service they offer once again Instagram offer with the fact there is a feature on Instagram where you can see all the photos you have liked. However it is a case of personal taste.

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Those couple of things listed above are the only thing I can fault Digi Me on. Whilst planning and writing this post, Digi Me went through a name change. They used to be Socialsafe and still operate in the same way with the same owners

‘ however we thought the time was right to change our name to Digi Me. This represents ‘your digital life’ and not just your social network life. We’ll be making the transition over the coming weeks.’ 

I’m not really sure why it was necessary to change the name however as times move forward I can see why a company of this kind want to keep up and relate the name to the growing products they develop and supply.

You can download Digi.Me for free enabling you to have 4 accounts synced. If you are an avid ‘Social networker’ then there is the option to pay $6.99+ (around £4.50+) to have up to 20 social networking accounts linked however I cannot really see many having so many accounts and in my opinion having the facility for 4 is just enough.

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As you can see, the software requires you to log in so if for any reason your laptop is stolen you don’t need to worry about people seeing your personal things. Once logged in, you are given an overview of each profile activity. Digi Me

If you click on ‘accounts’,(on the left hand side tool bar) a page like this will appear allowing you to click on each account and find out more information. The tool bar is handy when it comes to quickly accessing particular things for instance all your photos. It enables you to see all the photos you have ever uploaded. All in one safe place.

Like I said above, for a photography student like myself it is good to see the types of photos that have proven to be the most popular and which ones not so. This access is easy through Digi Me’s Insight page

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Until I found out about this Software, I had always wondered if there was a way to keep all my activities in one place and this certainly allows it. Photographically, I do find it useful however for me I use it mainly to look at my accounts and look back over the years. I also love how I can upload something to one of my accounts from my phone and its there (once synced) for good within the software available for me to download straight to my computer without the hassle of having to email myself the file in order to get it onto my laptop.

I would definitely recommend the software predominantly to any users like myself who like to be social online but also to look back at things over the years. Its a nice way to jog the memory too.

 

Friday Fun: Instagram Search Challenge

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Instagram is just amazing with all those beautiful images that everyone shares. When you share images on Instagram you usually tag them so that they are more easily found and appreciated by others.

Digi Me saves your Instagram photos along with the message, tags and comments that are associated with them.  Our challenge for today is to see if you can find your most used Instagram Hashtag and the Instagram photo that got you the most comments.

Share your results in the comments below or with us via our Twitter or Facebook Page.

If you haven’t already downloaded Digi Me you can download it here and join in with the fun!

Friday Fun: Searching Your Social Data

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It’s that time of the week! It’s Friday and that means it’s time for some Friday fun!  This Friday we are going to have fun with our social data and search!

With Digi.Me (formerly SocialSafe) you can search through all your social media content to find pretty much anything that you have shared with your friends, family and colleagues.  Your challenge for this week is to give search a try and see if you can find a social media update that has the word Christmas in it!

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Remember to share your finds with us on Twitter or Facebook using the hashtag #FridayFun.