When importing images to Picasa there are times that images from various events get grouped into the same folder. You can also run into this scenario if you have an ever growing list of images in the “To sort” folder. One of the simplest methods to remedy this and organize your photos effectively is to…Continue Reading
If you have a ton of images in Picasa and find that Picasa is using a lot of resources it may be due to face detection that occurs when Picasa processes the images. Normally this process isn’t noticeable, but if you have thousands of images and they were recently added to Picasa it can make…Continue Reading
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
If you’ve used Picasa Web Albums before, you’ll know that the upload limit has been set to five at a time and the upload process wasn’t that easy to use. Well a new update to Picasa Web Albums makes the uploading process that much easier to use. The new update includes a smoother upload, unlimited…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
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
Have you ever taken picture with your camera only to find out that the date and time are incorrect? This usually happens when your camera’s battery is completely drained and the camera is unused for a long period of time. What really stinks about this situation is that you’ve already taken the pictures with the…Continue Reading
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could stay at ease knowing that your family’s pictures were safe and backed up in Google’s servers? That is essentially what you get when you upload your photos to Picasa Web Albums in Picasa. Google provides users with 1GB of free storage for picture uploads, but Google also provides…Continue Reading
If you’re in the mood to have some fun with your pictures this Halloween you are going to love the new Halloween Effects, stickers, and fonts available in Picnik. You have two options to access Picnik’s cool features; you can go to Picnik.com or you can use the latest version of Picasa to edit your…Continue Reading
In a recent acquisition, Google bought online photo editing company Picnik. With this acquisition Google has been quickly incorporating Picnik’s cool photo editing features in Picasa Web Albums and just this past week to the latest version of Picasa. In Picasa 3.8 you will be able to edit photos using Picnik’s online tools within the Picasa window,…Continue Reading
One of the newest features introduced in the latest version of Picasa is the ability to create a movie from a face that has been tagged in an album. With this feature you can click on a face that has been tagged and create a slideshow of all the images that have been tagged with…Continue Reading
I’ve written about tricking Windows into allowing you to access Picasa databases on other locations, but I recently found an easy to use application the allows you to not only use databases stored in other locations, but also the ability to use multiple databases for different sets of pictures. The guide below will show you…Continue Reading
If you use Picasa and Picasa Web Albums to share your pictures with family and friends, you are going to love the latest feature announced at the Google Photos blog. Now you can edit all of the pictures saved in Picasa Web Albums using Google’s Picnik online photo editor. Picnik, a recent acquisition by Google,…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
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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