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Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by anuragbiyani »

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.

Why doesn't Google Photos work for you ? It does provide all the features you mention (depending on definition of "Nice gallery feature" of course), and on top of it really awesome search features.

Full disclosure: I work at Google (not on the Photos product though). All opinions expressed are purely mine, and not of my employer.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by marshray »

ploxiln wrote: post #82
D_Guidi wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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 month…

Time to start working on the smaller, faster thing that gives its users more control on the other side of the pendulum.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by greggman »

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.

How do I scroll through my entire photo collection in Lightroom with it keeping my folder tree in sync as I scroll and dividers by folder so I distinguish between groups of photos?

As far I can tell in Lightroom my old options are (1) show all photos from all folders in one giant grid so I can't tell where one folder starts and another ends nor can I tell which set of photos I'm currently looking at. Or (2) only view one folder at a time

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by vvanders »

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.

Flickr?

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by 19870213 »

sls wrote: post #57
sigjuice wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still don't know how to use the Internet without Google Reader :/

https://theoldreader.com/ works for me

Ouch, automatic locale detection, and badly in need of a (proper) translator (for at least Dutch). And no way to switch language that I can find (wouldn't be the first time that was translated with "").

I'm currently using https://blogtrottr.com to get e-mail updates for RSS/Atom feeds.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by hsshah »

pchristensen wrote: post #88
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.

Have you figured out a way to have a shared (family) photo library? My wife and I use different iCloud accounts, are part of iCloud Family. However, I cannot setup a single shared library for all the kid's pictures we take.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by tommoor »

anoonmoose wrote: post #30
al_biglan wrote: post #12

Huge pet peeve of Google... Develop a great little application/product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear. I get that in a normal company, the finances might in fact dictate that the company can no longer support the user base with the revenue collected. With Google.. these free services seem to disappear with little warning. (to be fair: 4 years of not updating the official B…

Your comment about the blog prompted me to go check the Google Voice blog...nothing since May 2013. Crap. I've been using, loving, and recommending GV since I started using it in 2010 when I got my first smartphone...one day they're just gonna up and shut down GV and not only will I lose a service I'm extremely fond of but I also won't get, you know, phone calls, because that's the number I've handed out for the last…

Huge opportunity here for a startup to be building a beautiful, well-maintained alternative to Google Voice, basically Grandcentral all over again :)

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by tommoor »

sk8ingdom wrote: post #25
al_biglan wrote: post #12

Huge pet peeve of Google... Develop a great little application/product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear. I get that in a normal company, the finances might in fact dictate that the company can no longer support the user base with the revenue collected. With Google.. these free services seem to disappear with little warning. (to be fair: 4 years of not updating the official B…

I'm still upset about Google Reader...

Digg Reader is almost identical in every important way... just in case you haven't tried it

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by sergiotapia »

pchristensen wrote: post #88
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.

Nice. I didn't know it was on my iMac. All the pics I took on my iphone are already backed up on photos online. Pretty nifty!
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