Google provides a plethora of services that include a lot of your personal data. Here’s how to download virtually all of your data offline for backup. Open a web browser and go to Google Takeout. Then log into you Google account. After signing in, you’re brought to the Google Takeout page. To download everything from [...]
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How To Send Full Resolution Photos from Picasa
Sometimes technology is too clever for its own good. Take Picasa, for example. When you email from Picasa, it automatically resizes the photo to reduce the file size. This is in your best interest, since full quality photos can be megabytes large and will either take forever to email or be blocked by your email [...]
How to Batch Resize Photos with Google Picasa
Picasa 3 is hardwired for sharing via social media, blogs and email. As such, it has a few handy features for batch resizing your photos into more web-friendly file sizes so you can easily email them or share them via dropbox. In this groovyPost, I’ll show you how to quickly and easily create resized versions [...]
Batch Renaming Photos in Picasa + Add Date and Resolution
One of our groovyReaders asked a great question about Windows Live Photo Gallery: My library wants to “digitize” their old photos. A workshop says they should be in two different formats, TIFF and JPEG. They would need an identifier, such as :”Library photo 1, Library Photo 2,” etc., with a title and place for added [...]
See After Affects of the Recent Alabama Tornadoes via Google Earth’s Picasa
Last week, the Southeast U.S. saw possibly the most devastating storm of the year for the region. States including Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee were all hit by the worst of it. As a result support has been pouring in, and Google has even updated their imagery in Google Earth to reflect the damage. If you [...]
Picasa Web Albums Update Makes it Easier to Manage Privacy
It was just the other day that a friend of mine noticed all of his Picasa albums were set to public. We went in to try and make them private, but it turns out that each album had to be done individually. And, when you have 87 albums it makes it nothing short of a [...]
How to Quickly Batch Resize Multiple Photos with ImageMagick
Google Picasa recently changed their service to include free uploads for photos that are smaller than 800 pixels. Because of this, we’ve been looking at the different options to get our photos down to size. The result? When it comes to resizing batches of photos, nobody does it better or faster than ImageMagick, but the [...]
Picasa Now Offers Free Unlimited Storage for Small Photos and Short Videos
On Friday Google officially announced new changes to their Picasa storage policy. These changes affect all users, regardless of if you have paid for extra storage or not. From now on, any photos that you have uploaded that “are 800 pixels or smaller and videos that are 15 minutes or less in length no longer [...]
groovyPost Weekly Wrap
Another week, another set of groovy tech tutorials and news! We’ve talked about a lot, and below we’ll look at the “best of” our entire week. As usual, we’ve also included some techy tidbits of information that we didn’t get to talk about. Who Can You Trust? Facebook vs. Flickr vs. Picasa vs. Windows [...]
Photo Sharing and Face Tagging: Facebook vs. Flickr vs. Picasa vs. Windows Live – Who Can You Trust?
Two years ago, MrGroove wrote about some privacy concerns he had about Google Picasa’s new name tags and facial recognition features and Facebook’s unethical practices around deleting your account vs. disabling it. Fast forward, and privacy issues revolving around Facebook and various photo sharing, facial recognition and photo tagging sites are front and center in [...]
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