Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on September 02, 2008 by CyberNet.

One of the best ways to sort digital photos these days is to tag them. Not only do tags help with sorting the photos, they make viewing photos of certain people or events easier. The only hassle involved is the time it takes to actually apply tags, especially if there are lots of people in the photos. If only there was a more “automatic” way to do it….

There just might be that more automatic tagging system available, starting today with an updated Google Picasa. According to Stephen Shankland over at a CNET News Blog, Underexposed, Google is set to launch a face recognition feature for their Picasa Web Albums today at noon (pacific). Shankland describes the feature saying, “the “name tag” feature presents users with collections of photos with what it judges to be the same person, then lets them click a button to affix a name. Once photographic subjects are named, users can browse an album of that individual on the fly.”

I remember when Ryan decided he wanted to tag all of our photos. It took him many, many hours to go through the thousands of photos we have to get them all tagged. It was such a hassle, so it’s understandable why people simply don’t take the time to tag their photos. This new feature that Google is introducing with Picasa should make tagging something that more people use, more often.We haven’t been able to try the feature ourselves, but Shankland said it took him less than 15 minutes to tag about 200 faces in a set of over 100 photos. He says that included the set-up time too, with figuring out how it all works. Not bad.

As a side note, this feature is available to Picasa users thanks to the Google acquisition of “Neven Vision” back in 2006. It’s always nice to see how Google ends-up using the services that they buy.

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This article was written on February 14, 2007 by CyberNet.

Everybody knew this was coming sooner, rather than later, and finally it’s here. No more teasing! Google has been slowly releasing Gmail all over the World, and now the process appears to be done.  When you click “Sign up for Gmail”, you’ll be taken to a page that looks like this:

It wasn’t that difficult to get an account previously, but it still required a little extra effort than it does now.  Despite the fact that it’s open to everyone now, Google still hasn’t taken it out of Beta. We’re still left to wonder when or if that will happen.

Source: CyberNet News Forum

–Other Google Stuff–

We’ve gotten a couple of emails today telling us to take a look at the Google logo. It’s their Valentine’s Day version (Happy Valentines day!), and at first glance, it almost looks like they’re missing the “l”.” People have sent messages saying things like “Can Google Spell?” Well, at second glance, they can. You just have to use your imagination a bit more. We’ve outlined the image below so you can tell where the “G” and “L” are.

Last year, there was no Valentines’s Day logo because the Winter Olympic Games were under way, but in case you’re interested, here are links to previous Valentines’ Day logos:

• Valentine’s Day 2005
• Valentine’s Day 2004
• Valentine’s Day 2003
• Valentine’s Day 2001
• Valentine’s Day 2000

Thanks for pointing out the logo Adam!

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Prior to the release of the Microsoft Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2, the Redmond company’s first generation of Surface tablets did not sell as well as they should have, leaving Microsoft with plenty of leftover stock which was a potential $1 billion write-off, which also resulted in Microsoft slashing the prices of the tablet drastically in a bid to boost sales. Perhaps the price slashes could have paid off because in a recent report from Chitika, it would seem as though Microsoft’s tablet traffic for the holiday season was actually a little bit higher than Google’s Nexus offerings, despite tablets such as the Nexus 7 being priced pretty cheap, making them more affordable alternatives.

Chitiki based their findings on a sample of over 10 million smartphone and tablet ad impressions from their network, and took the holiday season to be from the 20th of December up to the 29th of December 2013. Based on this, it would seem that Apple’s iPads are still dominating the tablet scene, followed by Amazon with their Kindle Fire offerings, followed by Samsung, and then by Microsoft, and finally Google. Of course this is based on a short period of time and perhaps if we were to look at the larger picture, the numbers might be different. What do you guys think? Could price slashes be why Microsoft’s tablets are doing slightly better than Google’s?

Microsoft Surface Traffic Beats Out Google’s Nexus Offerings original content from Ubergizmo.