Aside from being an amazing application to manage thousands of pictures, Picasa also does a pretty darn good job of capturing images and videos from a webcam attached to your computer. In this guide I will show you how to configure Picasa to capture images and video and how to save those captures to your…Continue Reading
Wouldn’t it be nice to group albums in Picasa based on what the images are used for? Working with over 10,000 images and trying to keep family and work apart in Picasa can be quite tedious. Thankfully you can use Collections in Picasa to keep your two lives separate. Collections allow you to group folders…Continue Reading
Wouldn’t you like the ability to burn a DVD slideshow from Picasa? Or share your pictures on Twitter and Facebook? Google are you listening? These are features that Picasa users are looking for in Picasa 4. Don’t get me wrong Picasa 3.6 is probably the best free photo management program out there, but as picky…Continue Reading
I recently received an email from a reader asking me if there was a way to loop slideshows in Picasa so that she could keep a slideshow going during a wedding. I quickly ran through the options panels in Picasa and found the option tucked away in the Tools menu. Follow the instructions below to…Continue Reading
Have you ever wanted to share pictures with family and friends without having to send emails to everyone with a ton of attachments? If you use Picasa to manage pictures on your computer and happen to have a Gmail account, you don’t have to anymore. Picasa coupled with Picasa Web Albums will allow you to…Continue Reading
Do you have hundreds and thousands of pictures that you are trying to add to Picasa? If so, you are probably receiving an error message stating that your hard drive is full, but you are using an external drive how is this possible? Well, Picasa creates a database on your computer (the C:\ drive) where…Continue Reading
One of the nicest features you’ll find on the iPad is the ability to use a wallpaper not only for the Lock Screen, but also for the Home Screen. You can specify which pictures to be used as a wallpaper, but your wallpaper pictures may end up taking more space than necessary. Most current digital…Continue Reading
If you use Picasa to manage your photos and Facebook to share them with friends and family, then you definitely need to follow this guide, it will make your life simpler. Picasa uploader is simply a button that is added to Picasa’s menu that allows you to upload pictures directly to Facebook using Picasa, no…Continue Reading
If you use Picasa to organize your pictures you may or may not be aware of the various options available to edit the photographs in your digital albums. Although simple to use in nature, some of the editing capabilities found in Picasa match that of photo editing packages that would normally carry a hefty price…Continue Reading
If you use Picasa to organize your pictures you may or may not be aware of the various options available to edit the photographs in your digital albums. Although simple to use in nature, some of the editing capabilities found in Picasa match that of photo editing packages that would normally carry a hefty price…Continue Reading
If you use Picasa to organize your pictures you may or may not be aware of the various options available to you to add your pictures to Picasa. Below I will walk you through four scenarios to teach you how you can add pictures to Picasa from your computer, your camera, and the web. If…Continue Reading
If you have any pictures stored in your computer and you are still using built-in Windows picture management applications you are missing out on all the features available with Google’s free photo management application, Picasa. The guide below will explain some of the differences between Albums and Folders in Picasa, a fundamental understanding that will…Continue Reading
I began using Windows Vista DVD maker for all of my picture slideshows, however when I learned of Picasa’s capabilities in this same space (customization of title screens, more flexibility with formats, and the ease of use inherent with Picasa) I began to use Picasa instead. The problem arose when I was ready to burn…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
