One of the best ways to sort digital photos these days is to tag them. Not only do tags help with sorting the photos, they make viewing photos of certain people or events easier. The only hassle involved is the time it takes to actually apply tags, especially if there are lots of people in the photos. If only there was a more "automatic" way to do it....
Google Docs as we know it today includes mainly Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations, but it looks as though soon it will include Photo Albums as well. The Google Operating System blog points out how using information from Google's code, you are able to get a list of items you can create in Google Docs which include Photo Albums. Take a look at the image to the right.
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 officially Google inc.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We’ve covered online photo editing options before like Fauxto (the online Photoshop clone), Phixr, and Snipshot. While all of them proved easy and convenient to use, another service called Picnik just became number one on my list.
