You have been on a fantastic week away with your friends and family. They all took their own digital cameras and managed to capture the moments you were unable to. You all return home, download the many pictures you took onto your computer and then upload them to your own Picasa Web Album.
The problem with this is you have to singlehandedly visit each one of the websites your family members and friends uploaded to and download the albums they created. Not many online photo storage websites allow users to share albums and collaboratively manage the photos within them.
That has all changed with the latest update from the Picasa Web Albums team. In a move to bring more of a social feel to their service, they have enabled what they call; “Collaborative albums”.
On 08.10.09, In Cool Websites, by Matt Brian
A little while back, Google introduced Google Profiles, a simple way of allowing people to control the information that would identify them on the popular search engine. Here, profiles would show other users of popular Google services all of your web content in one central location. So far Google have worked the profiles into their search results, in Google Knol, Google Reader and even Google Maps.
Until recently, many of these Google services didn’t have much of a social aspect to them. Google Reader had incorporated a few sharing features into their system but it didn’t exactly allow a seamless flow of information between friends and other Google users.
That has now changed, with many different services incorporating sharing of content and information, this article showing you just a few features.
Sites like Flickr and Picasa have allowed both personal and professional photographers to showcase their photos online, but with this, it has been even easier for businesses and agencies to steal these images and use them for their marketing without giving proper attribution to the creator.
Until today, I didn’t know if there was a decent tool that could tell you if your images were being stolen and used against your wishes. That was until I found TinEye, a service that can scan billions of images on the internet and find out where your images are being used.
By looking at the title, you would think this was an easy pursuit. If you are one of the many people (like me), who doesn’t get to see the “Download Album” link when you are browsing a Picasa Album, you will know that downloading those images can be somewhat troublesome.
There is an answer however, a solution that will allow you to still download the photos via your Picasa client, and all it requires is the use of a simple browser bookmarklet.
The ever popular photo management from Google has finally been released for the Mac. Taking into account Mac owners might have a love/hate relationship with iPhoto, Google have announced support for iPhoto so that it can track photo edits, scanning both the “Originals” and “Modified” and displaying a collective folder with the most recent version of the file.
Although the application has a rich feature set, some features have not been ported to the Mac version just yet. These include:
- Geotag
- Shop/Order prints
- Integrated webcam capture
- Automatic screen capture
- Export as HTML page
- Screensaver
- Picasa Photo Viewer
Grab your copy from the Official Picasa Website. Let us know how well it works for you!
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