Mike DelGaudio

I am a big ol fan of the text mate clone for windows known simply as “e”

However, when I tried to start it up today, it would hang when opening the recently used documents. I love this feature where E simply opens all the document that were open when you last closed the app. Handy!

Bust since the progress bar is a modal dialog box when the program opend, you are in deep doo-doo if something happens that causes e to lock up when trying to open those documents upon starup.

Apparently this can happen if you happen to BSOD while e is open (even if e is not the culprit.

Here is how to fix it.

Go to c:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\Application Data\e\

and delete e.db (if you are nervous about this, rename it to something like “e-CORRUPT.db”

Restart e.

E should start back up in it;s plain vanilla configuration.

Good luck!

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.

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!

Below is a post from the Picasa Newsgroups. Onion is a really wonderful, knowledgeable contributor to the Picasa Group.

I think it is a common misconception that picasa actually makes copies of images, or somehow is one level away from the actual folders on your disk. Not true, as Onion notes below in this message thread.

From: JohnAlex
Subject: Remove from Picasa Index
How do I remove items from the Picasa index without affecting their
storage on my disks? Thanks for the help

From: Onion
Subject: Re: Remove from Picasa Index
Picasa is a photo organizational tool, with basic editing features.
Picasa does not physically store your images. They are all located on
your hard drive. Picasa just scans your hard drive, looking for any
images, and then creates a thumbnail reference to them. This means
that if you delete a photo in Picasa, you are deleting it from your
hard drive.

Go into the Folder Manager under Tools and change your settings for
what Picasa watches.

Original Post here

If you click the folder icon next to the folder name in the library view in Picasa, it will open up that folder in explorer.

[tags]Picasa[/tags]

You can rotate images in Picasa as a batch from the Library view. Simply select all the images that need to be rotated in the SAME DIRECTION and Click CTRL+R to rotate clockwise, or CTRL+SHIFT+R to rotate counterclockwise.

Remember, that Picasa only rotates the images within it’s own view. If you want to use the rotated photo outside Picasa, you’ll need to Save the image after you rotate it. Picasa will make a backup of the original photo.

Here are some helpful key combinations to switch between different views in Picasa.

• CTRL+SHIFT+1 : Takes you to the photo library, with small thumbnail images.
• CTRL+SHIFT+2 : Takes you to the photo library, with larger thumbnail images.
• CTRL+SHIFT+3 : Takes you to the photo detail page for the selected photo.
• CTRL+SHIFT+4 : Takes you to the slideshow starting at the selected photo.
• CTRL_SHIFT+5 : Takes you to the Timeline View starting at the first photo in the timeline.

If you are a no-mouse kind of computer geek, you might like to know that you can toggle a star for any selected photo with CTRL+SHIFT+8. Good mnemonic device here. The 8 is the *

The programmers for picasa included a fun little easter egg for us all to find.

If you press CTRL+SHIFT+y, you’ll see a cuddly stuffed bear appear over top of your picasa window.

If you keep pressing the keystroke you’ll get more copies of the bear in different sizes.

Pointless Picasa Phun.

Via TechBuzz.

[tags]Picasa, techbuzz, easteregg, easter egg[/tags]

Picasa offers a several collage options by selecting several pictures then clicking the “Create” menu, followed by “Picture collage.”

In the effort at keeping Picasa simple, it picks the order and display of the photos that will be placed in the collage. You do have some small measure of control, however. If you dislike the order of the photos, simply click the preview window. The preview will say “updating” and after a few seconds (depending on how many images there are in the collage) the photos will be rearranged.

On a picture pile, contact sheet or picture grid collage, the order of the images is changes.
On a multi-exposure collage, it will change the relative cropping of the images, if the images are different sizes, as in the following example (note how the borders of the image change):