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US companies are banned from "exporting" anything to several countries. This ban applies to software as well, so a lot of people from places like Cuba or Iran are unable to download popular software such as IM clients, email clients or even browsers from US companies, even if they are free.
But Google has been worki... |
23 May 2012
10:40 GMT |
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Google has announced last evening, April 20th, that it will no longer offer the Picasa software for the Linux platform. Picasa for Linux was launched by Google back in 2006, as a Wine-based version. The last version of Picasa for Linux was 3.0."We launched a WINE-based version of Picasa for Linux in 2006 as a Google ... |
21 April 2012
07:45 GMT |
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Google may be all about Google+ these days, but it sometimes remembers that it has other products, even other social products. Panoramio, the geo-tagged photo sharing service, has gotten an improved way of placing photos on the map.
If the photo you're trying to upload doesn't have a geo-tag, you can deter... |
20 April 2012
10:29 GMT |
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More than a year after the latest major update, Picasa 3.9 is here, albeit not for Linux users. Google has always prided itself in the fast and frequent updates for its sites, but that doesn't extend itself to desktop apps, it seems. Still, if you're one of us dinosaurs that uses Picasa, the latest version... |
9 December 2011
10:31 GMT |
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It’s been more than seven months since Picasa received an update. But now it comes with a slew of new features. As “sharing” through social networks is the dominating activity on the web, this is also what Picasa adapted to.
As such, it added the possibility to share your photos to your circles as ... |
9 December 2011
09:57 GMT |
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The Google+ photos section is particularly powerful, while it does aim to provide the simplest experience possible, stressing the social features rather than technical capabilities, the interface and the simple sharing features make it a rather fun tool.And now it's gotten a lot more fun with the addition of the... |
28 October 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Google has made yet another change to the Navbar, the top bar that enables users to go directly to various Google websites, see their Google+ notifications as well as access their account settings.
Google has now replaced the "Photos" button with a "Photos" button. Except that, the 'old' Photos button li... |
11 October 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Microsoft security researchers have identified critical vulnerabilities in Facebook and Google Picase which led to account compromise and arbitrary code execution.The vulnerability in Facebook was ironically introduced by the company's anti-clickjacking protection deployed earlier this year in response to the ma... |
20 July 2011
13:35 GMT |
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Google+ is really a concentrated effort. The company is fully behind the project and it will encompass all of Google's products, where feasible. That's the plan at least and Google seems to be very determined about it if reports that it plans to retire the Picasa and Blogger brands, in favor of the generic-... |
6 July 2011
04:05 GMT |
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One of Facebook's killer feature, especially in the early days when it was still struggling to get traction, is Facebook photos. The feature, at first, was significantly poorer when compared to photo hosting and sharing services at the time, yet Facebook now has more photos than all dedicated services put togeth... |
2 July 2011
09:31 GMT |
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One of the cool perks of being a Google+ user is more free storage in Picasa. One of the strange quirks of Picasa Web Albums has been the limiting 1GB of free storage limit.
Gmail gets over 7 GB of storage, but Picasa, where you really need it, only 1 GB. If you're one of the lucky few Google+ users though, ... |
30 June 2011
08:31 GMT |
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The week that is slowly getting to an end will not be easily forgotten by those who were in southern US and experienced firsthand the effects of a tornado. In order to help other understand the gravity of the situation, Google has released a set of maps displaying before and after imagery of the area. Unfortunately ... |
30 April 2011
16:40 GMT |
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A few months ago Google started a new program to showcase how its products could be used to make your everyday life better. It chose weddings as an example of an 'every day' event that can benefit from Google apps. At the time, it also announced a sweepstakes in which the winner will get $25,000 towards per... |
20 April 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Picasa has been getting some much deserved attention from Google lately. Whether it has anything to do with Google's new-found fondness for anything with 'social' in it or not remains to be seen, but it's good to see that Google can still turn its attention to its more neglected products once in a... |
11 April 2011
10:03 GMT |
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Google is making Picasa Web Albums more social with the introduction of collaborative editing. Ever since the acquisition of Picnik, Picasa users have been able to edit their photos online using the Picnik editor. Now, Google is expanding this support to collaborative albums, enabling all contributors to edit any ima... |
15 March 2011
06:46 GMT |
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Google recently introduced a new Profile layout which puts a greater emphasis on photos and enables the user to provide more detailed information. Now, you can add even more context with the help of Picasa Web Albums, by adding it as a permanent tab on your Profile page."Recently we updated Google Profiles to help yo... |
10 March 2011
10:16 GMT |
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Google has made it official and announced that small photos and relatively short videos in Picasa no longer count towards the free storage quota and can essentially be stored for free. This means that you'll be able to make the most out of the rather paltry 1GB of free space you get with Picasa Web Albums, depen... |
5 March 2011
06:13 GMT |
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Google has a nice little surprise for Picasa Web users. While Google still hasn't gotten around to upgrading the amount of free storage they get and they still have to cope with the paltry 1 GB of free storage Google has been offering from the get go, small photos and relatively short videos no longer count towa... |
28 February 2011
09:38 GMT |
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Picasa Web Albums has finally gotten an updated photo uploader. The tool now enables you to upload multiple photos at a time as well as edit, tag or remove them from the selection before storing them online. The HTML5 tool works on most modern browsers. While users have always had the option to use the much more powe... |
25 February 2011
08:40 GMT |
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The Picasa team is making a small but welcomed change to the way Picasa Web Albums handles geo-tagged photos. Until now, you had to option to either show your visitors the location of all geo-tagged photos or none. Now, Picasa is enabling users to customize access at the album level. "For some of you, many of your me... |
16 February 2011
06:06 GMT |
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Google has enabled default HTTPS connections for Picasa Web Albums, proving yet again that complex mainstream services used by millions around the world can be secured with SSL/TLS without major problems.For years, online service providers have used SSL for the authentication process in order to protect clear text pa... |
15 February 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Google's quest for a more secure web is moving forward as Picasa Web Albums becomes one of the few big Google product to have HTTPS connections enabled by default. Picasa only introduced support for encrypted connections last month and they have now become the default. Every visit to and all communications with ... |
15 February 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Here's one thing that Google hadn't dabbled with, until now, weddings. In case the big day has you overwhelmed, Google is here to help, proposing several of its products as the perfect tools to help you plan and announce your wedding. There's no new product, Google is simply showcasing how Picasa, Docs... |
11 February 2011
05:04 GMT |
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Google has always been about the web, web apps are just better than native ones, it argues. Recently it's been heavily focused on the mobile front as well, especially since Android has taken off. Yet even the might Google seems to be playing catch-up at times. Thankfully, it's getting better, for example th... |
8 February 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Yahoo is making a lot of improvements to the newly launched Yahoo Mail Beta. The redesigned product brings a lot of interesting changes and additions, along with a much more eye-pleasing look, and Yahoo is now showcasing one of the cool new features, slideshows for Picasa or Flickr albums shared in an email. "With Ya... |
31 January 2011
11:30 GMT |
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Google made a small but not inconsequential change to the top link menu in Gmail and pretty much every other Google app, except Search, replacing the link to Reader with Photos which leads to Picasa. Reader users that were accustomed to the shortcut were not pleased and quite a few users took to complaining on Twitte... |
24 January 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Google has announced that it will begin offering some of its software in Iran where it was previously unable to, due to US restrictions. Now, Google Chrome, Picasa and Google Earth will be available for download to Iranian users. The move is possible due to some relaxation on restrictions on export to Iran, one of th... |
19 January 2011
04:31 GMT |
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Picasa is doing a roundup of some of the new features that have been quietly rolled out to users. A number of new features have been introduced in the past few weeks, but there's been no official word from Google. It looks like the features are now fully baked and Google is highlighting the changes."We are start... |
11 January 2011
08:53 GMT |
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Google Docs has just introduced support for video playback. Video files uploaded to the cloud storage solution can now be watched in place via the standard YouTube player. A number of formats are supported and most videos should already be available for playback. To date, while users can upload any file to Google Doc... |
7 January 2011
09:05 GMT |
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Picasa Web Albums is the latest Google product to get support for secure HTTPS connections. Google has been on a mission to expand the availability of the protocol to all of its web products and already supports it for many of them. Picasa though, until now, was not one of them. Note that HTTPS is not used by default... |
6 January 2011
11:17 GMT |
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Picasa quietly introduced a new zoom tool for Web Albums. The new Flash-based viewer takes up the whole screen and enables you to zoom in and out of an image. This is different from the regular full-screen viewer which doesn't have any zoom options. A new dedicated page for EXIF data has also been introduced whi... |
28 December 2010
04:41 GMT |
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The Google Docs team is always keeping busy and introducing some small features every couple of weeks or so. Offline access is not available yet, but you can now hide all of the Docs editors' controls if you want to concentrate solely on the task at hand. You can also insert images from Picasa and upload WMF fil... |
8 December 2010
13:51 GMT |
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Picasa has just extended its video support to include higher quality videos and even HD ones. Users will now be able to upload 480p and even 720p videos. This should make it easier for those who want to keep their family photos and videos in one place, though Picasa is still far from being a competitive video hosting... |
10 November 2010
03:54 GMT |
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The latest Picasa desktop app has been around for a couple of months now but a lot more people can enjoy it now that it has been translated in 38 languages. Picasa 3.8 added quite a few new features like face movies and the Picnik integration. "People around the world can now enjoy the updates in Picasa 3.8. The late... |
21 October 2010
07:05 GMT |
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With a name that puts Picasa in the Google family tree, this photo management software creates a lot of expectations among Linux users even before it's tested. So let's see how this software helps users organize their image collection, edit photos and shared them on the web.InstallationIn order to install P... |
16 October 2010
14:31 GMT |
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Google Buzz had already been integrated with Picasa, but now Google has added a small but important feature, the possibility to post private Picasa albums to Buzz. Google Buzz may have had a rough start, but Google is not giving up on it anytime soon. In fact, it has been working on making it better and integrating i... |
14 September 2010
06:15 GMT |
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Google is very much a web company, it values web apps above else. But in a few cases, it does concede that a desktop app proves useful, as it does with Picasa. The Picasa desktop client has just been updated to Picasa 3.8 bringing quite a few new, interesting features as well as work under the hood. "Today, we releas... |
18 August 2010
10:17 GMT |
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Google’s Picasa photo sharing service may seen as more of a place to store your vacation albums than to showcase your latest photographic masterpiece, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t great works to be found on the site. The Picasa team is working to dispel this notion and has recently held a... |
3 August 2010
06:46 GMT |
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Picasa is showcasing an interesting feature which, in essence, enables you to flip through an album by dragging with the mouse. While this may be a convenient way of moving from one photo to the other, it’s also a great way of showcasing 360 degree product photos. Now Google is releasing an open source photo vi... |
31 July 2010
06:51 GMT |
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Recently, YouTube unveiled a new privacy setting which enabled users to keep their videos out of sight but make them accessible to those that knew where to look. Now Google is doing the same with Picasa, its photo-sharing service. The site has quietly introduced a new feature to allow users to share their albums to a... |
19 July 2010
06:20 GMT |
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Google acquired Picnik, an online photo editor, a few months ago and is now revealing the first thing to come out of the deal, Picnik integration in Picasa. The move was a no-brainer for Google and is a large part of the reason why it acquired the company in the first place. Picasa users will now notice the “Ed... |
14 July 2010
05:35 GMT |
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Google introduced at the end of last week a new tool called GoogleCL. It runs from the command-line (yes, the Linux terminal), and allows users to post, create, list or delete photos from an existing Picasa account, videos from a YouTube account, edit, list or upload documents from your Google Docs account, add, dele... |
22 June 2010
13:11 GMT |
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Google Street View is great for exploring interesting locations near and far, but the quality of the images isn’t always great. In fact, plenty of times, they’re pretty badly stitched together. One way to get around this is to switch to the User Photos mode available in Street View to see photos from ever... |
10 June 2010
07:45 GMT |
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Google has finally made the announcement a lot of Google Apps users have been waiting for. The company plans to open up the service to include more Google products like Blogger or Picasa. These won’t be dedicated versions of the products for Google Apps, but the same services anyone can sign up with. The only m... |
7 May 2010
06:57 GMT |
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Photos are meant to be shared, by nature, so the multitude of services offering to help you share your pics with your friends is unsurprising. One of the most popular is Google’s Picasa. It allows you to store photo albums online and share the ones you want with the world or just specific friends. And, now, it&... |
30 April 2010
07:05 GMT |
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Google's photo-sharing and -hosting service, Picasa, is one of the most popular and feature-rich out there. Still, it has been suffering from a number of annoying issues and limitations, made even more so by the fact that Google has taken its sweet time fixing them. Luckily for power users, Google has finally l... |
6 April 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Another week another acquisition, that seems to be the Google mantra. To kick things off to a good start this week, Google has announced it has purchased Picnik, an online photo editor that integrates with several photo-sharing services including Picasa and Flickr. No financial details have been released. There are n... |
2 March 2010
04:33 GMT |
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Picasa users with a passion for geotagging their photos have something to be happy about, Google has now enabled them to upload a photo straight from a Picasa Web Album to Panoramio, Google's geotagging-inclined photo-sharing site, so they can share the interesting locations they've been to and their great ... |
24 February 2010
10:16 GMT |
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The upcoming Vancouver Winter Olympics have sports fans buzzing with excitement now that the start of the competition is just two days away. Google seems to be catching the bug as well, and is dedicating quite a lot of energy to provide fans with all the resources they need. To make sure you don't miss out on a... |
10 February 2010
07:09 GMT |
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One of the great features in Google Street View has been the possibility to view user photos of the current location. Street View photos are practical and a great alternative to, well, nothing at all, but their quality generally leaves to be desired. With the user photos feature, you can get much better pics of the ... |
9 February 2010
05:19 GMT |
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