One of the most popular apps in the top ten from 2021 was Spotify. Spotify, launched in 2008, is an app that gives its users access to music, podcasts and other digital media. There are different plans with this app, which can provide certain benefits like no advertisements, unlimited skips, and downloads for offline listening. These plans can range from free to $15.99.
Because the Spotify library is so big, it can be hard to find the types of songs you want. One tip for narrowing down a search is to use keywords like year:1971-76, which will provide you with music from that time. This also works with different categories like genre and label. If you’ve found a song you like, but don’t know where to go from there, hit go to radio, and more from the same categories will be played. Finally, one way to stay safer on Spotify is to opt-out of personalized ads, which can protect some of your identity. You can also turn all of your privacy settings off through your profile settings.
Another top ten from 2021 was Telegram. This free app, built in 2013, functions like most other messenger apps, you can message others, have group conversations, and send files. However, Telegram is special because it focuses on the safety of users, and uses an encryption code to protect all messages and files, and messages can even self-destruct. Telegram provides open software, and they utilize the cloud so you can access your messages from any device, and easily store everything you need to. One other bonus is that Telegram can send files up to 2GB in size.
This app’s basics already offer a lot, but there are many more tips and tricks to get even more. One tip for using Telegram, is that the app can be set to automatically translate other languages. They also have a “spoiler” button, if you would like a message to be hidden up to a specific point. Finally, you can save/pin important messages to refer back to at any time in a separate folder.
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