If you’re not a fan of using Picasa Photo Albums to share your images and prefer to use the old method of sharing photos via email, then this is the guide for you. The guide below will show you how to use Picasa to email photos using your default email application or Gmail. Software/Hardware used:…Continue Reading
Over the past couple of months Google has been doing a lot of work on improving Picasa Web Albums. The improvements have included functionality and layout changes. Recently Google has been experimenting with a new layout which features a more social photo viewing experience. The new layout includes not only your albums, but recent activity…Continue Reading
Optical Character Recognition, better known as OCR, is a method of converting a file into text. This file could be a scanned copy in a PDF format or just an image you take with your phone. Google took on the personal OCR ability in June 2010 for five different languages, but now has support for…Continue Reading
If you’ve used Google or Gmail in the past I’m sure you’ve come across a PDF file that you’ve wanted to quickly view, rather than download. Google has been offering the quick view of PDF Files, Word Documents and PowerPoint’s for quite some time now, but now they are expanding those formats to support the…Continue Reading
A few weeks ago Microsoft announced that they had integrated Facebook right into Hotmail, but had it only available in limited areas. On Monday, they announced that Facebook was now globally available directly inside of Hotmail. The global integration of Facebook inside of Hotmail comes a few weeks after Facebook was available globally inside of…Continue Reading
Google’s announcement of a cloud printing service disappointed a lot of users who expected the Mobile and Chrome OS only feature to allow for printing from other operating systems. Fortunately, Oren Yomtov, a Chrome extension developer has put together an extension that allows Windows and Mac users to print from their computers to Google’s Cloud…Continue Reading
Back in 2009, Google created Social Search, an experiment from Google to share and find new content from your social media connections. This experiment has become so successful that they’ve decided to add three new features to this program. Instead of all of the Social Search results showing up at the bottom of search results,…Continue Reading
Most people don’t see Presidents Day as an actual holiday, but rather a day off from school or work. Google see’s this long weekend off as a reason to learn something new. Why not actually learn something about the presidents on Presidents Day? Google’s recently released Showcase for U.S. Presidents will not only give you…Continue Reading
The other day I finally upgraded my dad’s computer to a more recent model. During the transfer one of the most important items that had to remain intact was Picasa. My father has spent a lot of time organizing, tagging and editing photos in Picasa, the last thing I wanted to do was lose all…Continue Reading
Over the summer, many students sublet their apartments when away from college, so it’s important to have someone pickup your rent and use the apartment while you’re gone. Thousands upon thousands of students in your town are looking to do the same thing as you are, but you have to stay one step ahead of…Continue Reading
Sharing photos on Facebook might be fun and all, but it doesn’t quite grasp the real meaning of sharing photos: getting a real feeling for where they were taken. A picture is worth a thousand words, but adding a specific location to that picture is all the much better. Now with Picasa Web Albums you…Continue Reading
Have you spent hours tagging your family and friends with Picasa’s face recognition feature? I know I have, with over 20,000 pictures I would be very unhappy if I lost that information, so if you’re looking to safeguard all of that valuable time and information you may want to follow the steps below. When I…Continue Reading
On Valentine’s Day, Google released a trial extension for Chrome which allows users to block any website from showing up in Google’s search results. The love-hate relationship with some search results has bothered users in the past. I know I’ve come across many sites before, wondering why they would ever show up in search results….Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
