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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: intelli78 on Sun, 15 June 2014, 18:37:16

Title: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: intelli78 on Sun, 15 June 2014, 18:37:16
I subscribe to:

Netflix - probably the best value of any subscription service ever

Spotify - seems to have all the music I want, on demand with few limitations. Have heard good things about Rdio too.

Private Internet Access - VPN for torrenting and using public wifi hotspots.

Web hosting

EarthClassMail - gives me a mailing address in NYC and they scan/upload all mail I receive, also offer package forwarding services. Allows me to better operate my business no matter where I am.

Google Drive - switched from Dropbox to this since the storage is so much cheaper.

Amazon Prime - free two day shipping and an ever-growing library of streaming media. I think this will only get better.

Free services that I love include Evernote, Skype, TeamViewer (access computer screen from other computers or phone), MightyText (Android SMS integration in Gmail), RSS feeds in general, the Tapatalk forum reading app for Android, Google Play Music (store up to 20k songs in the cloud for free).



What about you?
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: Puddsy on Sun, 15 June 2014, 18:40:49
malwarebytes
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: Anonymoose on Sun, 15 June 2014, 18:42:29
Plex.

It's how I stream all my music, tv shows, and movies. It doesn't compress my lossless audio, so no degradation in quality when streaming. And all my friends and family members can sign into my account and stream it to their phones, tablets, appletvs, rokus, chromecasts, laptops, whatever.
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: vinzlr on Sun, 15 June 2014, 18:47:12
HboGo, me and like 10 friends and family share it and just split the price, awesome selection of movies and Game of Thrones, what more is necessary? Also I paid for wolfram alpha pro. . .no not for cheating on homework, I used the step-by-step explanation feature and it saved my life in college maths :P
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: Puddsy on Sun, 15 June 2014, 19:00:36
plex is pretty great too
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: intelli78 on Sun, 15 June 2014, 19:02:22
Do you guys mostly torrent the media you play with Plex?
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: Anonymoose on Sun, 15 June 2014, 19:39:30
Quote from: intelli78 on Sun, 15 June 2014, 19:02:22
Do you guys mostly torrent the media you play with Plex?
I do, yes. Thank god for what.cd and tehconnection.eu. If I didn't have those, I probably wouldn't torrent as much.
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: Puddsy on Sun, 15 June 2014, 19:57:00
Quote from: intelli78 on Sun, 15 June 2014, 19:02:22
Do you guys mostly torrent the media you play with Plex?

My friend does, I just use his server
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 17 June 2014, 13:36:07
Netflix, Amazon Prime, PIA, MalwareBytes, PLEX, Skype, Teamviewer(free), Tapatalk

There could be more but mostly these for sure.
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: intelli78 on Tue, 17 June 2014, 13:58:07
I also use FaxZero for sending faxes, and K7.net for receiving. Takes a little bit of setup, but it's all free and avoids a trip to Kinkos.

Google Voice for a free US phone number.

I am sure I will think of more.
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Tue, 17 June 2014, 14:08:30
Netflix, Join.me (essentially the same as TeamViewer, just more convenient), Spotify, DropBox, Google Docs/Drive (pretty much any of the online-Google apps) and probably a few more I can't think of right now.
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 17 June 2014, 14:10:51
Quote from: Computer-Lab in Basement on Tue, 17 June 2014, 14:08:30
Netflix, Join.me (essentially the same as TeamViewer, just more convenient), Spotify, DropBox, Google Docs/Drive (pretty much any of the online-Google apps) and probably a few more I can't think of right now.

How could I forget dropbox..doh...I use it all the time for work and other stuff.
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: bexleycorona on Tue, 17 June 2014, 14:17:03
Notability. It's good for taking notes and has an extra option for auto backup to Dropbox or Google Docs and a few others.
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: Frenir on Tue, 17 June 2014, 14:18:08
Here are some of the ones I use:

Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Tue, 17 June 2014, 14:23:14
Oh, and I forgot this one: http://pixlr.com/editor/

Free online photoshopping software.
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: intelli78 on Tue, 17 June 2014, 14:27:10
Pixlr is good, but it's missing a few things. Really needs support for larger font sizes and alignment tools, among other things. I have mostly replaced it with GIMP.
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: Photekq on Tue, 17 June 2014, 14:31:21
The only thing I pay for regularly is the server for my seedbox.
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: agodinhost on Wed, 18 June 2014, 13:20:36
netflix
skype
mcafee
dropbox
free virtual servers
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: suby4me on Wed, 18 June 2014, 15:22:04
Netflix
Dropbox
Google Drive/Docs/ everything
skype
lastpass
evernote
wunderlist
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: cmadrid on Mon, 16 February 2015, 20:48:27
Netflix
Amazon Prime
Hulu Plus (dropping this soon)

Dollar Shave Club (does this count? :P )
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: jackalope on Tue, 17 February 2015, 00:26:24
Private Internet Access
Netflix
HBOgo
Hangouts
Tor
i2p
dnscrypt  encrypted dns
Pastebin
Google voice
guerrillamail
txtdrop + iopus = lol
shodan
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: demik on Tue, 17 February 2015, 00:29:19
the internet
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: jackalope on Tue, 17 February 2015, 00:45:54
Quote from: demik on Tue, 17 February 2015, 00:29:19
the internet

Is that like that vaginal mesh birth control?
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Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: fohat.digs on Tue, 17 February 2015, 08:01:55
Google and its array of services is an amazing "free" collection of things that I have used for many years

Dropbox
Teamviewer
-various anti-malware programs, currently Panda and Malwarebytes
-various utility programs, currently Glary Utilities and CCleaner

Audacity
Gimp (struggling to ditch Photoshop Elements)
LibreOffice (would love to get away from Office, too)
Foxit (Adobe is a nasty operation all around)

and beginning to dabble in openSUSE because I would finally like to get off of the Microsoft merry-go-round
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: azhdar on Tue, 17 February 2015, 08:09:53
-Skype
-DropBox

And then we host a lot of stuff onto the server we pay:
-plex
-private vpn
-deluge (excellent torrent client)
-file sharing server
-teamspeak,
- other things I can't remember

you guys pay for skype? What's better?
Title: Re: Paid and free online services/apps you use
Post by: katushkin on Tue, 17 February 2015, 08:19:23
Remember kids, you only need one Prime subscription per household.

I am currently using my Dad's paid prime account to get free free delivery. I just can't stream Prime video. But I have Netflix and TPB anyway (Y)