Mike DelGaudio

“Richards tech reviews” experienced some problems hosting his Picasa Library on an external drive. We have also discussed this matter previously

1. Be very careful when using Picasa with folders on drive letters that may have unavailable contents, or drive letters that may change

2. Be very careful when using Picasa with folders on a network drive

Richard’s Tech Reviews: Picasa, a network drive and the lost folders

Not sure how I feel about this one, seems a little too hacky / risky for me. This blog post describes how to create multiple picasa libraries by using multiple OS accounts in windows. Thought I wouild link to it anyway in case you needed it for some reason…

Picasa is the best desktop photo management software I have seen so far. Although it can maintain videos too, its main strength is the photo management. So if you have downloaded a LOT of pictures beautiful ladies off the internet and would like to browse through them sometime Picasa is the best tool.However, if you also use picasa to maintain your personal photos, they would easily get lost among thousands of those other photos. Unfortunately picasa doesn’t have a feature of maintaining seperate profiles (Although it does provide a option to hide folders it is a pain). I searched for any tweak or tool to achieve this but couldn’t find any - then I came up with a simple idea below {this works in Windows XP, although I have Windows Vista, I never boot to that now so haven’t tried it there}:

Vinayaka’s Blog - How you can use picasa to maintain your p**n ?

Via Lifehacker.

Techcrunch reports that there will be a Mac version of Picasa.

I asked if Picasa for Mac was coming, and as luck would have it I managed to pick the Google employee with the least amount of media training and immediately put her on the spot. Her response: Picasa for Mac is under-development and will be launched later this year.

Google Developing Mac Version Of Picasa, Due To Be Released This Year

The iPhone Matters blog has a comparison of Photobucket and Picasaweb. Personally, I prefer Flickr over both of them. But as far as integration with Picasa, you cannot beat Picasaweb.

While this leaves Picasa as a simple mobile photo viewer, Photobucket’s site provides an account-linked email address for users to send photos that are then sent to their Photobucket accounts.Picasa’s more polished interface offers a much cleaner user experience that also makes better use of the iPhone’s dimensions, and also provides a quick link to Google other mobile services, like Google Reader, the calendar, and Gmail.

iPhone Matters | Which Do You Like Best? Picasa or Photobucket

Lifehacker has a great walkthrough of Picasa, the photo management software from Google.

Anyone with a digital camera knows it doesn’t take much to wind up with a hard drive littered with thousands of files named things like IMG_1892.jpg. In my quest to organize all the stuff that’s accumulated on my hard drive, I knew that sooner or later, my little digital photo problem would rear its ugly head. By “little”, I mean out of control, and by “problem”, I mean looming catastrophe. What’s a girl with literally thousands of pics to organize on her ‘puter to do? Enter Google’s free desktop software, Picasa, which is basically the Walker Texas Ranger of photo organization packages.
Lifehacker: Organize your digital photos with Picasa

This beta release is a preview of Picasa 2.7, which will bring the Linux version of the application up to speed with the Windows edition. Picasa remains the only Google app which is unavailable for Mac OS X, a fact you can brag about to your Apple-loving friends.

As with previous versions of Picasa on Linux, this release bundles a customized version of the Wine Windows compatibility layer automatically installed inside the app, freeing you from the burden of maintaining a working Wine installation and from worrying about Picasa’s compatibility whenever upstream Wine is installed

Linux.com :: Picasa 2.7 a slick upgrade on Linux

PicasaWeb user Dave is clearly a fan of Picasa, but he wants it to go a whole lot further. He has created a Picasaweb set showing a “theoretical Picasa 3″ user interface. He has some good ideas especially around items that I think Picasa could use help with — such as tagging and descriptions.

Let’s hope a “Picasa 3″ is in the works somewhere in the depths of Google, and that we’ll see some improvements on an already great program.

You can flip an image horizontally using CTRL+SHIFT+H
FLip it vertically with CTRL+SHIFT+V

So far as I know this can only be done with these keystrokes, there is not other way to get a mirror image in Picasa.

Good news for Picasa users. Google has extended the amount of storage available to free users to 1 GB. According to the official Google blog, this means you can now store around “4,000 standard resolution photos.” which is great compared to services like Flickr who — to my knowledge still has a 200 photo limit for free users. (You can store as many as you want, but only the most recent 200 images will be visible.)

According to my gallery page, it says that I have 1GB (and counting!), so perhaps they are dribbling new storage the same way that gmail does.

The best and easiest way to start uploading to Picasa web is via Picasa itself.

[tags] picasa, picasaweb, flickr [/tags]

We’ve noted before that the space bar will star a photo in the detail view. The space bar has a different function in the Picture library.

Pressing the space bar scrolls the picture library down roughly one screen.

Give it a try!