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Jan 03

Easier Tagging System Comes to Google’s Picasa

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

name tag.png 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.

Nov 22

WrapUp: Microsoft Counts Down IE6 Usage, Fine Tune Windows 7 Aero Color, and More

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This article was written on March 07, 2011 by CyberNet.

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don’t forget to send in your own tips, or just leave a comment on this page if you think you’ve got something we should include.

–News–

Wordpress ddos WordPress.com DDoS Attack Comes from China
Last week WordPress.com sites experienced sporadic availability while a particular unnamed Chinese-language site was the focus of a DDoS attack.

Playstation3 Judge Approves Sony’s Request for Logs from George Hotz’s Site
Sony has been granted the right to get IP addresses of anyone that visited George Hotz’s website going all the way back to January 2009. They also won subpoenas to get data from both YouTube and Google over the PlayStation 3 jailbreaking lawsuit.

Ie6 usage 1 Microsoft Counts Down IE6 Usage
Microsoft has launched a site, ie6countdown.com, that breaks down the IE6 usage share based on geographic location.

Ipad2 Apple Announces iPad 2
The new Apple iPad 2 will be available this Friday (March 11th), and will include dual cameras as well as a faster CPU.

BlackBerry PlayBook Launching April 10th?
Have you been wondering when BlackBerry would be rolling out their PlayBook tablet? According to Boy Genius Report the OS should be finalized on March 31st with the tablet launching in retail locations on April 10th.

Google Removes 21 Malicious Android Apps from Market
Those running a version of Android older than 2.2.2 are susceptible to the malicious code found in 21 different Market applications that were all posted by a developer called Myournet.

Picasa Web Gets New Homepage
Google’s new Picasa Web homepage puts a focus on both your albums and the albums that have been shared with you.

Evernote ios Evernote for iPhone Completely Redesigned
Evernote, one of my most-used services, overhauled their iPhone app from the ground up. The most useful new feature for me is the ability to attach multiple images to a single note.

Google Accidentally Resets Gmail Accounts
A serious bug in Gmail started causing all emails in some user’s accounts to disappear, and it’s estimated that around 150k accounts were affected.

–Tips, Tutorials, and Reviews–

Ridnacs RidNacs – Free Folder Size Visualizer
This free Windows app will help you identify large files and folders, and also integrates with Windows Explorer.

Aero customizer Fine Tune Windows 7 Aero Color
AeroTuner is a free application that lets you customize the color, glow, blur, and stripes found in the Windows 7 Aero interface.

Compare Airline Delays Using Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha puts a lot of information at your fingertips, and one thing you may not have thought to look for are the causes for delay for particular airlines.

Windows pink Video Shows Upgrade Process for Windows 1.0 to Windows 7
This awesome video is like a highlight reel for the upgrade process from Windows 1.0 to Windows 7, and then goes on to test the backwards compatibility aspect.

Iphone notifications Improved iPhone Notification System for Jailbroken Devices
Jailbreakers can grab the free MobileNotifier download from Cydia that will replace your existing iPhone notification system with something a bit more usable.

Remote applescript Remotely Control a Mac Using AppleScript
This guide walks you through how you can write AppleScript code on one Mac that can be executed remotely on another Mac you own.

Using Windows 7 Jumplists for Quick Application Launching
Jump List Manager is a free application for Windows 7 that lets you add custom shortcuts to its Taskbar icon. This is useful for creating a list of your most used programs without cluttering up your Taskbar.

Picasa web albums Store Unlimited Small Photos and Short Videos in Picasa
Google apparently doesn’t count small images (under 800 pixels) and short videos (under 15 minutes) against your storage allocation.

–Downloads–

CDBurnerXP 4.3.8.2521 [Homepage] [Mirror]
Evernote 4.2.2.3913 [Homepage] [Mirror]
Firefox 3.6.15 [Homepage] [Mirror]
Firefox 4.0 ^{Beta 12} [Homepage] [Mirror]
Flash Player 10.2.152.32 [Homepage] [Mirror]
Foobar2000 1.1.5 [Homepage] [Mirror]
Google Chrome 11.0.686.3 ^Beta [Homepage] [Mirror]
iTunes 10.2 [Homepage] [Mirror]
Miranda 0.9.17 [Homepage] [Mirror]
Paint.NET 3.5.8 [Homepage] [Mirror]
PeaZip 3.6.2 [Homepage] [Mirror]
Picasa 3.8.117.38 [Homepage] [Mirror]
SeaMonkey 2.0.12 [Homepage] [Mirror]
Thunderbird 3.1.8 [Homepage] [Mirror]
uTorrent 2.2.1 ^{RC 2} [Homepage] [Mirror]

Mar 07

Incredimail launches for iPad with a photo inbox and built-in browser

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Many of us whose parents discovered the internet in the past decade are all too familiar with Incredimail, mostly through the excessively cute stationery that would come attached to virtually every message. It’s time to shake some of those old preconceptions now that an iPad version is here. The tablet port has stationery for anyone who craves it, but it’s more focused on becoming a one-stop shop for everything associated with communication: it centers on a unified inbox for IMAP-based email accounts (POP3 soon) that shows quick peeks of both mail and any included links. Users won’t have to leave the app at all for a few common non-messaging tasks. There’s both an integrated web browser as well as a photo inbox that currently shows Facebook images, with plans to support Flickr, Instagram and Picasa in the long run. Those on Android devices or the iPhone will have to wait for their eventual turns at Incredimail, but everyone using Apple’s tablet can give it a whirl today, for free — even if they have no intentions of sending messages that could be confused with greeting cards.

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Via: The Next Web

Source: App Store

Mar 05

Google’s Picasa URL now redirecting to Google+ photo albums

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In yet another bid to seemingly sunset its Picasa branding, Google’s redirecting Picasa users who head to its direct URL. Hilariously, that redirection is to Google+ web albums, which … well, let’s just say we haven’t been using our G+ photo albums all that much. But perhaps you have, and that’s just capital, given that Google is keen on you using that over its flickering, dimmed former star. Of course, should you really, really wish to access the old Picasa directly, you can head to this URL to bypass the redirect. At least until Google forces the end of Picasa through a Google+ Photos push, that is.

Filed under: Internet, Software, Google

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Via: CNET, Google Operating System Blog

Source: Google

Mar 05

Google Is Funneling Picasa Users into Google+ Without Any Warning

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Over the last week, Google has been migrating web albums for its online photo service Picasa over to Google+. No you didn’t get any warning, and yes, it’s sneaky—if not exactly unexpected. More »

Oct 31

Google research pane for Docs adds personal content, integration with Presentation and Drawing

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Building off of the web search capabilities of its research pane for Docs, Google is now giving users the ability to search for and insert their own personal content. For example, if you’re working on a presentation in Drive and want to add a photo from your Picasa album, or a quote from a friend’s Google+ profile, you’ll now have the option of adding personal content from within the research pane without leaving your project. This new search feature pulls information from your personal Picasa albums, Drive and Google+ accounts, and users will also find that the research pane has been extended to Presentation and Drawings. Unfortunately, Google Apps customers will still be limited to web-only search results, as personal content search is intended for individual accounts. However, if you’re a starving student heavily embedded in Google’s ecosystem, this time saver just might shave a few minutes off of your weekend cram session and that’s always a good thing.

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Google research pane for Docs adds personal content, integration with Presentation and Drawing originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 30

Google retires more services, consolidates others in continued efficiency bid

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When you run as many services as Google does, every once in a while you’re going to have to do some pruning. Evidently Mountain View’s got the secateurs out, having just announced the next batch of its projects that will be ~~getting axed~~ wound down. For the chop are: AdSense for Feeds, Classic Plus, Spreadsheet Gadgets, Places for Android, and +1 Reports in Webmaster Tools. Other services are being merged into existing properties to prevent overlap, such as Google Storage for Picasa and Drive — which are now consolidated — and Insights for Search is now part of Google Trends. Naturally, the search giant claims this is all about streamlining, and improving other core products. If the retired service involves a paid subscription, or legacy data, then you’ll need to check the specifics on the official blog to find out how this will affect you, which fortunately for you, is just a tap of the source link away.

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Google retires more services, consolidates others in continued efficiency bid originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 Sep 2012 07:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 17

Google buys Snapseed developer Nik Software, raises the eyebrows of Instagram shutterbugs

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Google makes a lot of acquisitions, some of them more important than others. Its latest purchase might skew towards the grander side, as it just bought imaging app developer Nik Software. While the company is known for pro photography apps like Capture NX and its Efex Pro series, the real prize might be Snapseed, Nik’s simpler image tool for desktop and iOS users. Both Nik and Google’s Senior Engineering VP Vic Gundotra are silent on the exact plans, but it doesn’t take much to imagine a parallel between Facebook’s buyout of Instagram and what Google is doing here: there’s no direct, Google-run equivalent to Instagram’s social photo service in Android or for Google+ users, and Nik’s technology might bridge the gap. Whether or not Googlegram becomes a reality, the deal is likely to create waves among photographers of all kinds — including those who’ve never bought a dedicated camera.

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Google buys Snapseed developer Nik Software, raises the eyebrows of Instagram shutterbugs originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 28

Where Do You Upload Your Photos on the Internet? [Chatroom]

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Click here to read Where Do You Upload Your Photos on the Internet?

I know. For most people it’s Facebook. Go out, get drunk, snap pics, upload, tag friends, Like. Repeat. Everybody does this. But I don’t want this. Flickr was a solution once upon a time but Flickr is, um, not what it used to be. How about Picasa? Something else? More »

Aug 02

Embracing geotagging: how to journal your trips (and contribute to Google Earth) with snapshots

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Geotagging. It’s not exactly a long, lost art, but it’s certainly not something most folks bother to do after a trip. Avid travelers, hikers and the general outdoorsy crowd have been embracing the feature for years, though, and it’s actually seeping into the mainstream without most individuals even noticing. How so? Smartphones. Given the proliferation of iPhones, Android handsets and Windows Phone devices making their way onto the market — coupled with the explosive use of geo-minded social networks like Path, Instagram and Foursquare — an entire generation is now growing up in a geotagged world. Phone users have it easy; so long as there’s a data connection and an embedded GPS module (commonplace in modern mobile devices), there lies the ability to upload a photo with a patch of metadata embedded. Snap a shot at a national park, upload it, and just like that, viewers and friends from around the world now have an idea as to what a specific place on the Earth looks like.

Solmeta N3 geotagging module review

Columbia’s GPS Pal app for Android and iOS

Casio Exilim EX-H20G (with Hybrid GPS) review

For travel hounds like myself, that’s insanely powerful. I’m the kind of person that’ll spend hours lost in Google Earth, spinning the globe around and discovering all-new (to me, at least) locales thanks to the magic of geotagging. It’s sort of the photographic equivalent to putting a face to a name. By stamping latitude, longitude, altitude and a specific time to any given JPEG, you’re able to not only show the world what you saw, but exactly when and where you saw it. It’s a magical combination, and with GPS modules finding their way into point-and-shoot cameras — not to mention external dongles like Solmeta’s magnificent N3 (our review here) — there’s plenty of opportunity to start adding location data to your photos. For more on the “Why would I want to?” and “How would I best display ’em?” inquiries, let’s meet up after the break.

Gallery: Embracing geotagging: iPhoto, Picasa and Panoramio

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Embracing geotagging: how to journal your trips (and contribute to Google Earth) with snapshots originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Easier Tagging System Comes to Google’s Picasa