2016-5-16 How to use Snapchat on Mac As mentioned above, the easiest way to use Snapchat on your Mac is via an Android emulator like Bluestacks. If you want to run Snapchat on Windows 10 or any other version of Windows of Mac OS X, the best way is to install a good emulator and run the app. Download Snapchat for PC: Run Snapchat on PC Bluestacks is the best emulator to run Snapchat in PC.
Star TV network has been always one of the leading heads for most of the channels. From Star World, where people just love to listen to “Bazinga” to the Indian regional channels like Star Jalsa, the company has catered to the multiple tastes of billions of people. To make sure that you don’t have to compromise watching your favourite shows, especially when the tiring daily soaps just don’t want to end, Star has finally released one of the best products in the form of an Android application called Hotstar.
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What is Hot with Hotstar?
Hotstar has been seriously one of the best things to have happened for all those viewers who just love to watch their respective serials or shows having complete freedom and convenience. While streaming tons of Star channels, you can now easily enjoy yourself in your spare time, that too without needing to pay even a shilling. Yes! Hotstar lets you enjoy your favourite shows anytime and really anywhere, over Wi Fi or even on 2G. Not just this, the app doesn’t even require you to either sign up or to register yourself for using it. Now, you can enjoy any serial or programme anywhere. From genres including mythology to comedy, the world of entertainment can be finally now in the vicinity of your palm.
No, don’t just think that this app is only for those who love watching those daily soaps. In fact, for all the sports lovers, Hotstar lets you enjoy even live cricket streaming. Now that’s seriously important for many men. Also this app just doesn’t restrict itself to only one or two languages. You can now watch any Star presented programme of any language like Bengali or Malayalam. From the latest episodes to even ones that have been already broadcasted, you can now easily stream in and watch what you just missed out. You can even watch the latest movies thereby saving quite a lot of money that you might have spent in the theatres.
Had the app included only these, Hotstar might not have been one of the favourites. But the fact that it also includes those epic shows that were showcased earlier, makes this entertaining app an exclusive one. Yes, now you can catch up those classy jokes of Sarabhai vs Sarabhai or catch up Ross and Rachel joking around in the most beloved series of Friends.
Along with these, you can even enjoy your favourite shows while you are offline. How? Simply by downloading them from the Hotstar app. You can also save the required content in your respective playlist, rate or review and do seriously a lot more.
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Enjoy HotStar on Mac:
When excitement is going all leaps only with this one app, missing this one app on your respective Mac can be seriously regretful. Thus, you can now seamlessly enjoy movies only by downloading along with installing Bluestacks. Once this emulator has been incorporated, just seek for the Hotstar app; after getting which proceed to download along with installing the same. When done, you are now completely free to enjoy all your shows, programmes or movies any time.
Published 10:46 AM EST Feb 18, 2017
You’re typing away on your computer most of the day — perhaps while at the office or school – and you want to check in on your favorite social network. If it’s a mobile-focused platform like Instagram or Snapchat, however, you’re out of luck.
Or maybe not. There are, in fact, a couple of ways you can access these smartphone-centric social media sites on your Windows PC or Mac.
Instagram
With Instagram, you can go to the Instagram website (instagram.com), sign in with your Instagram ID, and view photos of your feed. But be forewarned this is a half-baked experience as you can’t post photos or videos. It’s merely an Instagram viewer.
Similarly, PC users can download the official Instagram app for free from the Windows Store, but posting and editing photos is only available for tablets and PCs with touchscreens and backward-facing cameras. Sigh.
Instead, to give you the mobile Instagram experience you know and love – while sitting at a computer during the 9-to-5 grind — download the free BlueStacks, an Android emulator for PC and Mac, which lets you run Instagram and other Google Play apps on your laptop or desktop. In fact, the Android operating system doesn’t even know it’s being run on a computer. After you download and install the 300MB BlueStacks (bluestacks.com), sign in with your Google ID and then click on the Google Play store icon to search for and download Instagram.
Now sign into the Instagram app with the same ID and password as your mobile phone, and you can take a photo or shoot a video – via your webcam – and post it to your feed. You can also add filters, share multiple photos and videos to your story (and jazz them up with text and drawing tools), see what your friends are sharing, post comments, send disappearing media and words to others (through Instagram Direct), and more.
Easy breezy.
Snapchat
Unlike Instagram, there is no Snapchat.com viewer that lets you see your feeds, nor is there a Windows 10 app for Snapchat like there is for Instagram (as limited as it is). Mac users are also out of luck.
Therefore, you’re limited to using an Android emulator like the above mentioned BlueStacks, which is free and easy to use, or consider another free emulator like AndyOS (andyroid.net), which also works on both Windows and Mac.
After you’ve downloaded and installed an emulator, sign into your Google account, and then click or tap to go to the Google Play store. Search for and download Snapchat, and then sign into your Snapchat account, as you would on an iOS or Android device. You only need to do this once. You’ll be up and running in seconds.
Now that you’re in Snapchat, you can view your friend’s Snaps or send one if you have an internal or external webcam (required) on your Windows PC or Mac. Add fun filters to your photos before sharing, send messages to friends (with fun emojis), click or tap Discover to explore hand-crafted Stories from top publishers in the world, or view Memories, a personal collection of your favorite Snaps and Stories.
If you don’t have a webcam and simply want to see your friend’s Snaps or Stories, click the Cancel button when a pop-up notifies you to connect a camera.
Happy Snapping!
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Published 10:46 AM EST Feb 18, 2017