Having come back from my vacation with a bunch of pictures I decided to give Picasa another look. My camera is a Canon Rebel T2i and I kept it set for RAW+JPG when taking pictures. Picasa has the ability to read RAW files and with the latest update it properly reads the files from my T2i. The online web albums also provide the potential to be a nice offline backup solution. Another bonus is the software is cross-platform, with Windows & Mac versions. By way of background the RAW+JPG setting on the Canon Rebel T2i creates files with the same name, just different extensions. I copy the SD cards, both file types, to a directory on my Windows Home Server so they’re accessible from all my computers. Picasa met some of it’s promise but is still an incomplete solution for me. Read the rest »
Google Wants Our Photos In The Cloud
Google currently has a deal going that offers a free Eye-Fi card when you lease 200GB of storage for them for a year. When I first saw it it seemed like a pretty good deal, and I hate to pass up a good deal. But it’s less of a deal if I don’t really need the space and won’t use the card. So that got me thinking about my options. The space is split between Gmail and Picasa. I’m not even close to my Gmail limit and I’m not currently [...] Read the rest »
Picasa as Host For Blog Pictures
When I started working on the Thunderbird Mail posting I figured I’d have a lot of screen shots. So I decided to try using a Picasa web album to host them. I’d already installed the Picasa plug-in for iPhoto. I took the screen shots as I was doing the install and I put placeholders in the article. To try an make life easy I numbered them in order. After I imported the screen shots into an iPhoto album and touched up a couple of them it was time to work [...] Read the rest »
