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Picasa Gets Sharper Images

Picasa hasn't been able to take on Flickr's coolness factor, which it managed to retain to a certain degree even after being acquired by Yahoo, but Google's photo sharing service has it's own strengths and what it lacks in charm it makes up in smartness. Most recently, developers have taken advan...

28 December 2009
04:54 GMT

Picasa 3.6 Now Available for Download

Google doesn't like desktop software, at all. It makes desktop apps when it absolutely has to, but even then it's visible that they're more of an afterthought. One the most popular such apps, Picasa, is a great photo album manager, but it has always trailed behind the online version in most aspects, o...

10 December 2009
09:08 GMT

Experimental Image Swirl Search Lands in Google Labs

Google enjoys a very solid and comfortable lead in search right now and this is true for most types of searches, including image search. This doesn't mean that it can rest on its laurels, if anything Google is the company that showed others just that, so it's now launching a totally new way of discovering ...

18 November 2009
03:32 GMT

16 TB of Storage Available Now to Picasa and Gmail Users

Google is finally offering Picasa users more storage. Unfortunately, it's for a price albeit a significantly decreased one. Google has always had a paid option for additional storage space for those who'd fill up the free space provided by Picasa or Gmail, but now the company has slashed the prices while a...

11 November 2009
05:51 GMT

Picasa 3.5 Comes with Face Recognition and Google Maps Integration

Google has finally updated its Picasa desktop software, which feels somewhat neglected compared to the web-based side of the product. The search giant is of course an Internet company but a little focus on the desktop app is a nice change. Picasa 3.5 comes with some interesting features, like face recognition with a...

23 September 2009
06:40 GMT

Picasa Adds Collaboration Tools

Google has just added a seemingly small but very important feature to its online photo sharing site Picasa, allowing users to collaborate and share photos from multiple sources in the same album. This feature could come in handy on any number of occasions and users can have the photos from an event or a trip all in o...

21 August 2009
06:33 GMT

Street View Adds Picasa Photos

Google wanted users to get different perspectives on the photos it delivers with Street View so it started adding images from other sources besides the ones it gathers for the service. It introduced user photos along with the Google ones in Street View earlier this year, although those only came from Panoramio, Googl...

15 August 2009
03:37 GMT

Picasa 3.0.6 Available for Mac OS X - Download Here

Google has released new versions of Picasa for Mac OS X and Windows, its software application designed for organizing and editing digital photos. Version 3.0.6, released on July 30, 2009 mainly fixes issues such as one where applying the 'Retouch' edit created a 0kb new file, or an issue where Picasa for Ma...

4 August 2009
03:18 GMT

Download New Picasa 3.0.4 for Mac – Free

The code savvy folks at Google are proud to announce an improved version of Picasa, the search giant's free photo organizer and editor. Updates to Picasa are made on an ongoing basis. Updates may include bug fixes, performance enhancements, additional hardware/device support and other improvements, so users are ...

4 March 2009
06:03 GMT

Download New Picasa for Mac (V. 3.0.2)

Picasa is a program that helps users manage, edit, and share their photo collection with ease. Boasting some impressive control capabilities, the tool can find and display up to one million pictures from any place on your Mac. Editing options range from retouching to adding text and watermarks. When the work is finis...

26 January 2009
08:48 GMT

Picasa for Mac Beta Available – Free Download

Google has just released Picasa for Mac. Currently in beta for Apple computing platforms, Picasa is a program that helps you manage, edit, and share your photo collection. Best of all, the software doesn't do with storing images, but only represents the actual directories containing photographs on your computer&...

6 January 2009
04:26 GMT

Facebook Worms Use Google Services

Experts from the network security vendor Fortinet report that new worms spreading on Facebook are making use of links to pages hosted on popular Google services like Google Reader or Picasa Web Albums in order to bypass security filters and reduce user suspicions.The general propagation of malware like the notorious ...

30 October 2008
10:40 GMT

Emails with Picasa Links Attachments Unsafe

For a while now, the mainstream media has been reporting on the upcoming ability of Google's Picasa photo organizer to recognize faces, thanks to a revolutionary technology. While everyone is focused on the new feature and the possibilities it presents, security experts recommend users stay away from any unsolic...

3 September 2008
09:54 GMT

Google Says Goodbye to "Hello"

This might come as sad news for some of you: Google will be shutting down Hello, Picasa's application used for sharing photos over the web. The Hello webpage will not be accessible starting with May15, this year. Hello has been part of the Picasa application ever since Google acquired the latter, back in 2004. c...

9 May 2008
03:58 GMT

Google's orkut Gets a Major Storage Upgrade

Google's orkut has recently received a new upgrade, which comes in the form of a larger storage space for the users' photos. This new upgrade is released eight months after October's latest increase of photo storage space. Back then, Google orkut proudly announced its users that they could upload up to...

7 May 2008
04:49 GMT

Picasa 2.7 Comes with Improved RAW Support

Dan Kegel and Lei Zhang, Google Software Engineers, announced the release of Picasa 2.7 for Linux.The new version is packed up with features like web album upload and download, localization in many languages, folder hierarchy views, better RAW support and more. Picasa for Linux is actually the Windows version, runnin...

17 April 2008
05:29 GMT

Google Rolls Out Windows Mobile 6 Compatible Service

Google has rolled out several mobile services until now but none of them was designed to work on Windows Mobile 6 devices. However, this needs some changes so, today, the Mountain View company officially introduces a Windows Mobile 6 compatible version of Picasa Web Albums, allowing users to view photos, slideshows o...

3 April 2008
02:21 GMT

Picasa 2.7 for Linux Incompatible with Compiz

OK, so we have a new Linux release from the team working at Google's Picasa. Let's see what's new. Well, Picasa 2.7 for Linux comes with almost the same features as Picasa 2.7 for Linux with a few Linux-only features. Before mentioning them, I must warn you that it's only a beta, so don't be ...

10 December 2007
05:00 GMT

Photo Sharing Service in 38 Languages

Picasa Web Albums or Google's photo sharing service is now available in 38 languages after the Picasa team included support for several new countries. Among the new ones, I can mention Bulgarian, Hindi, Slovenian, Filipino or Thai. In addition, Picasa Web Albums was improved with mobile support which enables the...

2 November 2007
15:36 GMT

How to Manage Your Gmail Storage Size

Recently, the Mountain View company Google received a new service which allows users to buy additional storage size for their account but is currently compatible only with Gmail and Picasa Web Albums. Because the purchased storage space addresses the Google account, you can use it for any service you need. But there ...

18 October 2007
15:16 GMT

Google More Focused On Mac OS X, New Downloads Available

Among the technologies powered by the super giant Google we can also find some downloadable tools which are supposed to be saved and installed on consumers' computers. Picasa Web Albums Uploaders is just one of them but it also has something special: it is designed to work on Mac OS X, a feature owned by only a ...

16 October 2007
03:24 GMT

More Photos for Google Fans

Flickr, Photobucket, Kodakgallery... all of them have the same purpose: online photo sharing, allowing the users to upload pictures and store them on the web. These are the best known technologies in this category but what's more interesting is that Google doesn't own any of them. However, the super giant h...

3 October 2007
14:11 GMT

Seven More Countries Joining The Googleplex

The search giant Google released an updated version of Picasa that brings several new goodies for all the users of the application. First of all, you should know that Picasa is now available in seven more languages: Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, and Ukrainian. If you didn't...

23 August 2007
06:31 GMT

Google: 1 GB Just for Your Own Pleasure!

This was quite a busy week at Googleplex when it comes to the storage size offered for the search giant's solution because everybody was talking about the recent program launched by Google. As you might know, the Mountain View company rolled out a new campaign that allows the interested consumers to buy addition...

16 August 2007
03:01 GMT

Gmail Increases Storage Size to 9GB!

Let's do a quick test. Login in to your Gmail account and scroll down to the bottom of the page. As you can see, there is a short green line that informs you about the Gmail storage size as well as the percentage of free space. "You are currently using 109 MB (3%) of your 2887 MB," it says in my case. Well, I�...

13 August 2007
04:06 GMT

Want More Gmail Size? Buy It!

Gmail offers no less than 2.8GB of free storage size but sometimes it's not enough and the user is forced to look for alternatives. Until now, there has been a close competition between Gmail and Yahoo Mail, especially addressed to the storage capacity and, as far we can see, the Sunnyvale company has won it. Le...

10 August 2007
02:42 GMT

What About Google Earth for Mobile Phones?

Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Maps and Google. The common feature? They are all accessible from any handheld device but the mobile family is increasing as the parent company recently released Picasa Web Albums for mobile phones. What does this mean? Using this new flavor of the service you can access it from any loc...

28 June 2007
06:55 GMT

Google's Digital Photos Sent to 19 Countries

Picasa is one of the downloadable applications powered by Google that is now available in 19 more languages beside the main version of the program. Still, the most used Picasa remains the old release that is currently installed on millions of computers, helping users to organize the photos, edit and add effects to th...

5 June 2007
03:53 GMT

Google Debuts Flash Slideshows

Picasa Web Albums was updated today with a new function that helps the album owners to create attractive slideshows and share them with friends. As you might know, Picasa Web Albums is an online photo sharing platform that allows all the users to upload their pictures on the servers, create albums, organize images an...

18 May 2007
05:06 GMT

Updated Picasa Published for Free Download

Google Picasa was quietly improved and released for free download although the Mountain View-based company didn't make any official statement concerning the update. According to the changelog published by the search giant, Picasa version 2.7, build 36.37 was released on April 24, 2007 with a few minor improvemen...

27 April 2007
05:51 GMT

Picasa Web Albums - Blogger Interoperability

Yesterday, Google announced major updates for Picasa Web Albums, increasing the file storage size to 1 GB among with other interesting improvements. Today, the company reveals one more update for Picasa, adding interoperability with Blogger, the most popular blog service on the Internet. The blog owners are now able ...

9 March 2007
02:41 GMT

Picasa Updated And Available Now!

Picasa is a downloadable application provided by Google that is often regarded as the most efficient program to organize and manage numerous photos. As you know, the search giant also designed a web interface for Picasa that helps users manipulate photos using a simple online service containing powerful features impl...

8 March 2007
02:53 GMT


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