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Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by tshtf »

databus wrote: post #75
tshtf wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I ported my number out of Google Voice a couple of years ago. Some things to keep in mind with GV: * Your only form of "support", even when paying to port out a number, is a forum staffed entirely with volunteers. If you're actually using GV it's useful to read through here to see the trainwreck: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/voice * As the parent mentioned, the GV Blog is barren. * You're better off…

Where did you port your number to? Any suggestions for an alternative to GV?

For services that have feature parity with GV, I'd recommend ring.to. Note that ring.to is run by bandwidth.com, the same CLEC that Google Voice uses for most (all?) of its numbers, so porting is easy:

https://ring.to/#newservice

For a more hands-on alternative, Anveo is a good choice (and they have SIP and SMS short code support):

https://www.anveo.com/

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by ploxiln »

D_Guidi wrote: post #68
Sanddancer wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google photos doesn't have a desktop app. Being able to sort pics on a desktop is just as important, if not moreso, as being able to sort pics on the web. Not everything needs to be, nor should be, a pure webapp.

>not everything needs to be, nor should be, a pure webapp google thinks you're wrong. me too.

Soon we'll all be running all our applications in facebook or googleplus or icloud, in a browser, in a virtual machine, on a proprietary-blob-driven all-in-one device.

Apps will be announced with huge fanfare (the most innovative thing ever), they'll show up in front of you without any action required on your part, they will change drastically in front of your eyes, corner cases will be buggy, and then in a few months to a couple of years they'll disappear forever.

yay, the future is almost here

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by sergiotapia »

My wife and I take a lot of pictures on our smartphones. What service can I pay for that will:

- Automatically upload our pictures from our smartphone

- Keep them private, viewable only to use, or family members.

- Nice gallery feature.

- Easy to export all data in one go.

I will pay cold hard cash for this. My wife will decapitate me if I lose our backup pictures of our kids when they were babies.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by frik »

Mizza wrote: post #60

Every time this happens, people act surprised. Every single time. It happens like clockwork, every 3 months. People should realize by now that Google is a company that makes money through surveillance advertising, and _every single other thing they do_ is basically part of a PR campaign. If you don't want this to happen to you, don't use Google. Use something that you have control over.

The shocking thing is that even companies like Microsoft are no better today. The user and his data are the product with their recent products like Win10, Office365. Adobe and Autodesk are on the same bandwagon with their subscription software, but not as mean and dirty as MSFT.

Only Apple is still 1990s-style (traditional) and at least let's you deactivate their cloud stuff with a few simple options. We definitely need more good companies that respect the consumer.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by [deleted] »

sergiotapia wrote: post #83

My wife and I take a lot of pictures on our smartphones. What service can I pay for that will: - Automatically upload our pictures from our smartphone - Keep them private, viewable only to use, or family members. - Nice gallery feature. - Easy to export all data in one go. I will pay cold hard cash for this. My wife will decapitate me if I lose our backup pictures of our kids when they were babies.

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Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by monkbroc »

Google Photos is still missing a lot of functionality of Picasa. For year I've been uploading pictures to an album named with the current year. My parents and in-laws can check the pictures of the kids when they like. The Photos upload activity on Android doesn't have a selector for the album like the Picasa upload did.

There still doesn't seem to be a way to interact with Google Photos through scripts. Search for "google photos api" and the first link is still the Picasa Web Albums Data API...

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by pchristensen »

sergiotapia wrote: post #83

My wife and I take a lot of pictures on our smartphones. What service can I pay for that will: - Automatically upload our pictures from our smartphone - Keep them private, viewable only to use, or family members. - Nice gallery feature. - Easy to export all data in one go. I will pay cold hard cash for this. My wife will decapitate me if I lose our backup pictures of our kids when they were babies.

iCloud Photo Library does this. The Mac Photos client can pull down the full library and the be backed up etc as a normal file.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by ultramancool »

patorjk wrote: post #36
pgrote wrote: post #8

Alternatives for desktop picasa? Desktop Picasa is also going away and it is what I use for organizing my photos. I understand the backend of Picasa Web is replaced by Google Photos, no problem. My problem is with the desktop organization. Desktop Picasa allows for one feature no other alternative I have seen allows ... tagging of multiple photos. Does anyone have a web or desktop alternative that supports tagging on…

Have you tried Adobe Lightroom? It's not free (you can get it and Photoshop for $10 a month), but it's the best photo organizer I've used.

Great for advanced people who use Windows or OS X and want to pay money.

There's also a few good open source options in this direction for people on Linux.

The problem is Picasa was so easy I could give it to an average user and have them pick it up quickly and enjoy their photos. I can't think of anything nearly as dead simple.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by grahamburger »

sergiotapia wrote: post #83

My wife and I take a lot of pictures on our smartphones. What service can I pay for that will: - Automatically upload our pictures from our smartphone - Keep them private, viewable only to use, or family members. - Nice gallery feature. - Easy to export all data in one go. I will pay cold hard cash for this. My wife will decapitate me if I lose our backup pictures of our kids when they were babies.

We use Google Photos for exactly this. We have an account that is separate from our personal accounts that we share. That account is on all of our devices and all photos upload to it directly. We pay for 1TB of storage ($10/month) Easy to share albums w/ fam and friends. Also crazy good search - like ' photos of [son's name] and [wife's name] at the beach in may' will return photos of ... exactly that. With no tagging.
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