If you use Picasa you may find that it is littered with features all around. So many features are included that one may not be able to grasp their use or take the time to understand how they work. I’m writing this article in response to my fathers request to help him send pictures via…Continue Reading
If you’ve been using Picasa 3 for some time you either love or dislike the new Picasa Photo Viewer. The Picasa photo viewer was intended as a replacement for Windows built-in picture viewer. Whether the Windows Picture viewer or the Picasa Photo Viewer is preferred is a question of taste, either way I have highlighted…Continue Reading
One of Picasa’s newest features (introduced in version 2 and expanded in 3) is the ability to view RAW pictures and convert these images to JPEG’s. All you have to do is add your RAW files to Picasa and follow the instructions below to convert them to the JPEG format. As far as I can…Continue Reading
One of the neatest features Picasa sports is the ability to Geotag your pictures using Google Earth. When you geotag a picture you are essentially adding GPS coordinates to the EXIF data contained in your picture (more on EXIF here). When you geotag your pictures you can view them on a map in Google Earth…Continue Reading
Based on my personal experience with Picasa and the feedback I have received from visitors, Picasa’s initial auto scan of ALL pictures located in your computer can be annoying and sometimes embarrassing. There are two remedies to this issue, the first is after the initial installation of Picasa. Once you have installed Picasa and you…Continue Reading
One of Picasa’s newest features is the ability to create a Movie Presentation from a selection of videos and pictures. The feature allows you to customize the slide transitions, duration, and captions. This tool is excellent for those of you who like to create movie sideshows to upload to YouTube and/or to burn to a…Continue Reading
The other day I installed Picasa 3 and have been fiddling with it since. I found that Google kept the experimental features available, most folks don’t venture that far into Picasa so I decided to post these ‘Obscure’ experimental features that are available to you. Below I summarized 5 of the 7 experimental features and…Continue Reading
Imagine a scenario where all of the pictures on your computer were destroyed, what would your first thought be? “I should have backed up when I had the chance,” or “I’m glad I followed Gil’s instructions on backing up all those precious moments.” You definitely want to be thinking the latter, however if you have…Continue Reading
This How-to serves two purposes, the first is to inform all of Gil’s Method readers that Google has released Picasa 3 Beta. The other is to update and create a new guide to creating photo collages in Picasa 3. I felt that the changes between Picasa 2 and Picasa 3 are significant enough to warrant…Continue Reading
Vista may have many issues, but we cannot take away the fact that this operating system is bundled with a lot of useful software. Among the number of programs available is Windows DVD Maker, which does exactly what the name implies, it makes DVD’s. The neat thing about this program is the ability to creates…Continue Reading
I’ve been using Picassa for a while now and find that every time I use Picassa I run into a feature I didn’t know it had. With Picassa you have the capability of creating picture collages from the pictures you have stored in your computer. There are several types of collages that you can create;…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
