Tivo owners now have a new convenient way to view their photos on the TV. Thanks to a partnership with both Picasa and Photobucket, users can access their photos (assuming they're an account holder for either service) right from their broadband connected  Tivo device. Depending on the model of Tivo that they own, they can even view them in HD.

If you visit Google today, you'll notice the usual logo has been replaced with the one you see pictured to the right.  It's Google's 9th Birthday, and they're celebrating! While there are actually several dates that could be considered Google's birthday, clearly they acknowledge today, September 27th as their official birthday, the day that they became incorporated and their name was

Google has always offered the option to purchase additional storage for your Picasa account, however, now that purchased storage is for more than just your Picasa account.  Google has started a new shared storage program in which your paid storage can be used across other Google services.  For now, the only two options are Gmail and Picasa, but I’m sure Google intends to add additional services to the list like Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

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Time Saving Tuesday

Digital images are everywhere these days, and Flickr is prime evidence of that. On their homepage they have some statistics that I always find interesting, and one of them tells you how many images were uploaded in the last minute. It’s quite astonishing, but in a single minute there are normally about 2,400 images being uploaded! Oh

Geotagging photos is something that I never got into doing until recently. I have a Flickr account and I went through my 5,000+ photos adding locations of where they were taken. Surprisingly it didn’t take me all that long, but I also didn’t go that in-depth with geotagging. For the most part, I would just get the general location of where they were taken at, instead

First things first: If you haven’t upgraded to Picasa 2.7, now would probably be a good time to do that.  It’s been available for a couple of weeks, and there are major improvements, in particular speed improvements.

Once you have that done, go checkout Picasa’s new flash slideshow feature. A handful of startups have offered a slide-show presentation that could be embedded into sites and blogs, but Picasa has

The latest version of Picasa is now ready for download.  It’s been a couple of months since we’ve seen an update, with the last major version in February including a big update with support for Windows Vista and updated icons.

This time around, you’ll notice major speed improvements in comparison to the previous versions, and better RAW support. Other major improvements include better integration for blogs with the “Blog This!” feature, and