Which paid apps/services do you rate as amazing?

[Bryn]

I'm curious as to whether I'm missing out on anything really awesome out there. Just list anything that you think really stands out.

I'll start:

- Office 365 Home - 5 PCs get the latest Office apps & 1TB cloud storage each for <R1k/yr
- Apple Music Family - 6 family members get Apple Music for R90pm
- Zevera - download full speed from every file host on Earth - reasonable block prices
- AVG Ultimate - R500 at Incredible - unlimited devices get AVG Internet Security & AVG Tune-up
- Incredible Cloud - unlimited online storage for 2 years for R99 at Incredible

 

[Thor]

Eset

Office

Dropbox

Plex


Phpstorm

 

[agentrfr]

My seedbox is by far the best thing I pay money for.

Office is used lots too

 

[koeksGHT]

Google Music

 

[Bryn]

Google Music

Play Music doesn't offer family subscriptions in SA though. That's the only reason I'm using Apple Music. R90pm for the whole family is insane value.

 

[koeksGHT]

Play Music doesn't offer family subscriptions in SA though. That's the only reason I'm using Apple Music. R90pm for the whole family is insane value.

Sup fam

 

[airborne]

Thinking paying for Skillshare or similar streaming video learning site, some good ones out there.

 

[Bryn]

Eset

Office

Dropbox

Plex


Phpstorm

What's so great about Dropbox? Their pricing doesn't look too great, especially considering the 1TB storage you get with OneDrive with Office 365.

I've never used Plex as copying movies to flash drive if I needed them on a TV was so easy, and because I assumed Plex wasn't free. I see the free offering is actually quite comprehensive though. I'll have to check them out.

My seedbox is by far the best thing I pay money for.

Office is used lots too

Where do you get your seedbox from?

Sup fam

Sup . Unfortunately all 6 slots are taken in my family, and in any case Apple requires that you all live at the same address.

 

[koeksGHT]

What's so great about Dropbox? Their pricing doesn't look too great, especially considering the 1TB storage you get with OneDrive with Office 365.

I've never used Plex as copying movies to flash drive if I needed them on a TV was so easy, and because I assumed Plex wasn't free. I see the free offering is actually quite comprehensive though. I'll have to check them out.



Where do you get your seedbox from?



Sup . Unfortunately all 6 slots are taken in my family, and in any case Apple requires that you all live at the same address.

Sup fam

 

[Bryn]

Thinking paying for Skillshare or similar streaming video learning site, some good ones out there.

Check out Udemy. Excellent quality courses. I found the programming courses more useful than my university ones. Buy using the Android app - almost always the cheapest option.

 

[Thor]

What's so great about Dropbox? Their pricing doesn't look too great, especially considering the 1TB storage you get with OneDrive with Office 365.

I've never used Plex as copying movies to flash drive if I needed them on a TV was so easy, and because I assumed Plex wasn't free. I see the free offering is actually quite comprehensive though. I'll have to check them out.



Where do you get your seedbox from?



Sup . Unfortunately all 6 slots are taken in my family, and in any case Apple requires that you all live at the same address.

Onedrive is k@k for me.

I don't like it. It's slow it's massive the app suck

For me I absolutely love how Dropbox works and it integrates everywhere especially with services I use hourly like tinypng, owncloud and Dropbox's API for other projects of mine.

 

[backstreetboy]

Only Plex. The rest one can get for free. Will not touch Apple music again with a 10 inch barge pole until it's on the web and you don't require the abortion that is iTunes.

 

[HavocXphere]

Amazon Prime - saves me a fortune. Netflix is pretty decent too.

Getting decent mileage out of google music too.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Netflix

Plex

Apple Music

 

[airborne]

Main advantage of Dropbox is the amount of support it has, every cloud sync/storage etc option in other apps is either Dropbox only or one of the defaults, that makes it infinitely more attractive than 2tb free from Microsoft that can generally only only sync with its own apps or devices.

 

[Bryn]

Only Plex. The rest one can get for free. Will not touch Apple music again with a 10 inch barge pole until it's on the web and you don't require the abortion that is iTunes.

I'm only using Apple Music because of the family subscription. While it is good enough that I'm not going to cancel it, it is extraordinary how Apple has managed to produce such an objectively terrible user interface. It's the most counter-intuitive crap I've ever used, and would have failed as a student submission for my user interface design class.

iTunes is a disgrace for any company, and even worse for one as big as Apple and one that prides itself on design.

 

[airborne]

I'm only using Apple Music because of the family subscription. While it is good enough that I'm not going to cancel it, it is extraordinary how Apple has managed to produce such an objectively terrible user interface. It's the most counter-intuitive crap I've ever used, and would have failed as a student submission for my user interface design class.

iTunes is a disgrace for any company, and even worse for one as big as Apple and one that prides itself on design.

You probably using iTunes on windows no?

 

[backstreetboy]

You probably using iTunes on windows no?

Talking about user interface doesn't matter if it's Windows or macOS.

 

[FoXtroT]

Onedrive is k@k for me.

I don't like it. It's slow it's massive the app suck

For me I absolutely love how Dropbox works and it integrates everywhere especially with services I use hourly like tinypng, owncloud and Dropbox's API for other projects of mine.

Yeah, I prefer Dropbox over OneDrive as well. Although I can't justify paying for it now that I have 1 TB of OneDrive space.

I find DropBox much better for my main use for it which is syncing My Documents folder as it lets you keep folders on your PC that you don't want synced into the cloud, instead of with OneDrive which then removes them and only keeps them in the cloud.

A minor difference but an irritating one for me.

 

[Bryn]

You probably using iTunes on windows no?

Yeah, but I'm not sure the relevance. The only difference is that it's faster on OS X/macOS.