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Picasa 2 Out of Beta
Recall my review of Picasa 2 + web albums a little while ago? Well it is finally out of beta and comes with a few fixes and updates …
We’ve also fixed a whole bunch of things in Picasa. Folders finally work as you’d expect, so people who’ve kept their photos meticulously organized in folders and subfolders can see them displayed the same way in Picasa. And we’ve added a shiny new feature to photo-editing: Save. Your Picasa edits can now be preserved when using other programs. The save feature is even undoable, so you never lose your original files.
And there’s more — you can import into any folder you like, make time-lapse sequences into movies, search by color, create a screensaver with beautiful visual effects, and even re-arrange Picasa’s buttons. Oh, and we also made Picasa work with Google Earth, so you can put information about where you went on vacation into the photos themselves, and then, view your shots on a 3-D globe. Try it all out for yourself at picasa.google.com
Via: Google Blog
On of the things I have been waiting for is now present, you can more easily import into an existing folder. I hope it is more robust too, it used to crash for me when importing many gigabytes of files at once.
I have got to test how flickr reacts to the Google Earth / Picasa geo tagging, that might be the solution I have been looking for if flickr reads them.
Interesting is the time-lapse movie export – I have had a time lapse set hanging around my laptop for ages, will be good to try that out.
All good stuff, please do try it out and let me know in the comments what you think of it!
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10 Free Flickr MiniCards
Moo is offering Flickr Pro members 10x free “MiniCards”. What are they? Like a calling card with one of your Flickr photographs on one side and a personalised message or contact details on t’other. They measure 28mm x 70mm, about half the size of a regular business card. I just ordered a set to see what they are like.
Go try it, it’s free!
via:Thomas Hawk picture: richardmoross
Technorati Tags: photography, flickr, moo, minicards, printing, tips, news
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Flickr Famous?
Want to know who the most popular Flickr users are? Check out Flickstrs.
There are two types of ranking, one uses just contacts, which is easily gamed (as anyone who has received the “I am really disappointed to didn’t add me too” spam will have gathered), the other factors in “explore” images which gives a bit better idea of quality.
I was interested to see _rebekka and solea not at number one and two in the chart. Another thing that surprised me was I already had added quite a lot of the top people already.
Check it out, pretty interesting.
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Flickr, Freaks and Fantasy Families
99% of the pictures of my daughter I post are made only visible to family and friends. People tell me I am paranoid but stuff like this keeps happening and it can only happen so often before I think “why take the risk?”
Wayne at Utata
All of my pictures are private now, because someone with multiple accounts at livejournal and myspace has been using them to construct weblogs in which my children are characters in a fantasy family.
Some strange person has taken his family photographs and used them as her own, constructing a fantasy family life and casting Wayne as her husband. Seriously.
I used to blog and post pictures about my family all the time until I started getting .. inappropriate .. comments made. Nothing too scary or threatening but some people got a little to familiar.
Darren Rouse, a popular blogger, had a stalker turn up at his house and make threats. Consider Flickrs new mapping feature, how easy are we making it for freaks to track us down?
It seems to me it is just not safe to make your private life too public. Sure post pictures and blog, but draw the line somewhere. The internet has a long memory and stuff is so easily copied, re-mixed, manipulated and re-posted. It is no good wishing in the future you hadn’t divulged stuff, then it is too late. You can take stuff down but you can’t delete from peoples hard disks.
People say to me “I have been blogging for years and nothing like this has ever happened to me”. I hope for your sake it never does but your past experience is no guarantee of what will happen in the future. It only takes one nutter to spoil it for you, best be fully aware of what you are doing now.
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Adding Accuracy to Flickr Geotagging Maps
I have been getting quite frustrated with the Yahoo! maps that Flickr uses. The maps are great, when they have the mapping data. Which isn’t very often. In fact so rare the whole thing is pretty lame. Tagging pictures at the moment has all the accuracy of drunken pin the tail on the donkey. So I was real pleased when I saw this today on Utata
Perhaps the single greatest complaint regarding flickr’s new Geotagging functionality is the lack of street level coverage that yahoo maps provides for many regions of the world. In many regions outside North America it can be very frustrating to accurately place your photos. This frustration is often compounded by the fact that Google Maps may have extremely high resolution of that same area. Flickr responded to this need by opening up Geotagging data through the flickr API, allowing outside developers to add increased functionality on top of flickr’s maps. Within a day of the API being open, Trippermap had already converted to the new system. Further, they have provided an online tutorial on how to use their service to geotag using Google Earth
While it won’t make the map experience any better currently, at least you know when they finally get the data your stuff will be in the right place.
Check out Trippermap and their online tutorial on how to use their service.
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