Did you hear that the latest release of Picasa Web Albums Uploader has just been launched for Mac OSX? All of the improvements actually came from user suggestions, which we think is pretty awesome. How often do companies actually admit that they listen to their users?
Posts Tagged ‘picasa web albums’
Now Link Google Profile with Picasa Albums
August 19th, 2010 |
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Just recently, Picasa launched the option to connect the service with a Google Profile. Before this change, both of these Google services required a separate profile, which meant that users had to enter their logins/personal information multiple times. It’s great to see these two services integrating. Now that they’re compatible with each other, users can [...]
How to Sign in to Multiple Gmail Accounts
August 5th, 2010 |
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Even though Gmail offers lots of ways to organize our emails, for example through the use of labels, many of us still have more than one Gmail account to separate different aspects of our life. Previously, if you wanted to access both your Gmail accounts at the same time you needed to do so in [...]
Understanding IPv6 and What’s Google Doing About it
July 24th, 2010 |
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ReadWriteWeb published an interesting article two days back on how the internet could run out of IP addresses in just one year. The reason? There are a limited number of IPv4 addresses (the current format of IP addresses) available and it is likely to be exhausted completely in a year.
So what’s the solution? I’m sure [...]
How to Edit Photos in Picasa Web Albums
July 16th, 2010 |
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Picasa is no longer just for sharing your photos, you can edit pictures right inside Picasa Web Albums. It’s only a few months after Google included Picnik into its arsenal of applications, and now it is sufficiently integrated into Picasa to make photo editing a breeze.
This is how you can make fun changes to your [...]
Google Blends Picnik Photo Editing with Picasa
July 14th, 2010 |
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Google July 13 blended its Picnik Web photo editing technology with Picasa Web Albums. The move comes just two weeks after Facebook began testing new tagging technology on Facebook photos. – Google July 13 said it has blended Picnik, the Web
photo editing technology it acquired in March, with Picasa Web Albums.
This means users using Picasa can click the edit choice from the Edit drop-down menu or from the
Picnik icon to add funny comments to their photos in thought clouds, or add
s…
Picasa Photo Challenge – What is Democracy?
July 13th, 2010 |
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The spirit of Independence Day hasn’t left us yet, even though we celebrated the 4th of July more than a week ago; at least not for Picasa Web Albums. Picasa is hosting its first contest ever. It’s called The Democracy Photo Challenge and focuses around what democracy means to the participants.
Picasa wants to encourage people [...]
Changing the Default Background for Classic Google
June 14th, 2010 |
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If you’re bored of multicoloured letters on a matte white background, it is possible to change the default background for the Google search page to an uploaded image of your choosing. This is extremely easy to do. To set a custom background for Google search, follow these simple steps:
Make sure you are signed into your [...]
Google Apps Expanding as Google Preps for Microsoft Office 2010
May 8th, 2010 |
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Google May 6 said it will enable users to access Google Reader, Blogger and Picasa Web Albums from Google Apps in fall 2010, satisfying nine of the top 20 requests Apps users make from the company. The move signals an expansion of Google Apps beyond collaboration to other modes of information-sharing. This could provide some measure of defense as Google seeks to stave off challengers, such as IBM, Cisco and Microsoft, whose Office 2010 suite launches May 12.
– Google May 6 said it will enable users to access Google
Reader, Blogger and Picasa Web Albums from Google Apps in fall 2010, satisfying nine of the top 20 requests
Apps users make from the company.
Google is moving Google Apps customers to a new
infrastructure where they will be able to access …
Google Buys Picnik for Photo Editing in the Cloud
March 2nd, 2010 |
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Google on March 1 bought Web-based photo-editing specialist Picnik for an undisclosed sum, adding another cloud computing tool to its arsenal. Picnik lets users import their photos from Picasa Web Albums, Flickr and the other aforementioned sites and make changes to them. Google will be working hard to integrate Picnik within Google and will add new features in the future. Picnic boasts 20 employees, who will join Google’s Seattle offices. One of these new employees is Picnik CEO Jonathan Sposato, who joined the Picnik team after selling his company Phatbits to Google.
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Google on March 1 agreed to acquire Web-based photo-editing
specialist Picnik
for an undisclosed sum, acquiring yet another startup created by a fomer Google
employee.
The Web is full of photo-sharing tools and destinations,
including Google’s own Picasa Web albums, Flickr, Photo…
Brand New In Gmail: Google Buzz
February 9th, 2010 |
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I just found out about Google Buzz, which was released today. Normally I am always signed in to Gmail, but after restarting my computer I had to sign back into Gmail and when I did Gmail gave me a little surprise:
Buzz is automatically added to your Gmail account, so you do not need to activate [...]
How to Use Picasa Web to do Camera Research
February 4th, 2010 |
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Are you thinking of buying a camera, but getting confused about the conflicting reviews and ratings on the models you’re interested in? Picasa Web Albums can be used for more than just sharing pictures. Ultimately, you can also search publicly available pictures on Picasa Web Albums as well, and if only you could select for [...]
Google Social Search Arrives to Challenge Facebook
January 28th, 2010 |
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Google Jan. 27 said it is taking its Google Social Search project to its core search engine with new features, a move to challenge Facebook in the battle for more users. Google Social Search drops content from searchers’ contacts directly into search results. In the next few days, users of the English language version of Google.com who are signed into their Google account will automatically begin seeing Google Social Search results for Google Images, displaying pictures friends have published to Yahoo’s Flickr or Google’s own Picasa Web Albums. Social Search also features two new links for My social circle and My social content.
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Google Jan. 27 said it is taking its Google Social Search project to make
search more relevant and injecting it into its core search
engine with new features, a move to challenge Facebook’s social network dominance.
Google Social Search drops content from searchers’ contacts directl…
The Coolest New Picasa’s Photo Importing Feature
October 28th, 2009 |
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Picasa 3.5 comes with a few cool new features. One of them is face tagging, where Picasa scans all your pictures and recognizes the same faces once you have identified them. Looking for a picture of yourself and your Aunt Gertrude, whom you’ve only seen a few times? It’s easy, all you would need to [...]
View and Share PDFs with Google Docs
July 30th, 2009 |
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Apparently, you can now upload PDFs (and in the future, possibly any other file type) on everyone’s favorite cloud computing office suite, Google Docs. You see, they rolled out a new interface recently, and it looks one step closer to an online storage service. The “items by type” menu replaced “PDFs” with “Files”, suggesting that [...]
How to Map Photo Location Automatically in Picasa
July 20th, 2009 |
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Mapping your photos uploaded to Picasa web albums is nothing too new, but not everyone is aware there are more ways to map your photos in Picasa than using simple (and time consuming) geotagging.
You can also map your pictures automatically, but there is a catch: you must have a camera that automatically attaches location information [...]
How to upload photos to Picasa Web albums by Email?
July 20th, 2009 |
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Picasa Web albums is a free service from Google to upload and share photos. Besides using web based interface on Picasa Web website and Picasa software to upload photos – you can also do the same by sending email messages to custom email address.
Upload photos to Picasa Web by Email
1. Login to Picasa Web & [...]