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Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by kuschku »

xd1936 wrote: post #104
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.

> Being able to sort pics Google Photos is amazing, but sorting photos in it is pretty lackluster. You can make albums... That's about it. It's sort of like Gmail; They want you to worry less about your complex organization system, and just use their fantastic search instead.

> fantastic search

Which is beaten by even PostgreSQL’s fulltext search in 'simple' mode. (At least for my mails).

Hilariously bad.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by dimgl »

I have a question. I'm wondering why big companies buy smaller companies but don't keep their branding. For instance, if Google bought Picaza, why not just make Picaza the de-facto image storage app? They'd replace their Photos app with Picaza, and call it a day. Something similar happened recently with Songza.

Is there any reason in particular why small companies are bought out by big companies and their brands are dissolved rather than building on top of their initial branding?

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by o_____________o »

dingdingdang wrote: post #131

Ah, the fun (irony here). Before user-end computing can regain a semblance of sensibility we will need to move towards guaranteed secure sandbox environments for apps that allow historical re-use of earlier versions. What is happening at the moment is that IMMENSE quantities of skill development and time is continually flushed away everytime Google/Microsoft/Take-your-pick-software-company decides to retire or dramat…

And so castles made of sand

melt in the sea

eventually

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by kuschku »

neves wrote: post #66
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…

Which consumer Google product has a kind of support different than a volunteer forum? Try to get help for Google Music, or Google+, or an Android software. They should at least sponsor and monitor some tags in the stack exchange forums like Microsoft does.

The best support (the only real support) I’ve ever gotten for Google products were

(a) partnersupport-de@youtube.com (support for youtube partners, monetized, back in the days, German),

(b) This very website. Start an angry thread, get it to the front page – or post a comment on a frontpage thread about a dev topic – and suddenly some Google dev ends up fixing it, and in the same moment, your comment on here disappears.

Support methods I have also tried:

(c) Buying Google Apps for Business (the 30 day free month), then calling their support, after the support call was successful, cancelling it again (doesn’t work, Google doesn’t answer Google Apps for Business calls, someone takes your call, you say hi, in the same second they hang up on you)

Support methods I have not tried yet, but plan to, in case the previous ones don’t work anymore:

(d) Just arriving in person at their nearest Google office, getting entrance somehow, and then directly providing my complaints to the next manager (at risk of getting sued for entering their office illegally)

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by vvanders »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #113
Sanddancer wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've got a rather large collection of large photo images. Images which I can and do want to work on, crop, tune brightness, contrast, etc, before publishing them. Webapps right now are amazingly primitive and crude for even the most basic of workflows, especially when you're working with raw images. Additionally, in order to save the images I want how I created them, I'd have to pay a non-insubstantial amount of mone…

Photoshop or Lightroom should meet your needs. Not free, but better they're not free: that means they'll stick around.

Yup, Lightroom was tailor build for exactly this.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by CSDude »

monkbroc wrote: post #87

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 "g…

Yeah, If Google continues to not provide an API, I will write my own Selenium scripts to provide functionality, and we all now how will that end.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by twblalock »

ikeboy wrote: post #43
anoonmoose wrote: post #30

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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…

Legally, you own your number, and have the right to transfer it. This should still apply if it shuts down. IANAL, but see https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/keeping-your-telephone-...

You don't legally "own" your number. You have the right to port it, but that is not the same thing.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by pjc50 »

dingdingdang wrote: post #131

Ah, the fun (irony here). Before user-end computing can regain a semblance of sensibility we will need to move towards guaranteed secure sandbox environments for apps that allow historical re-use of earlier versions. What is happening at the moment is that IMMENSE quantities of skill development and time is continually flushed away everytime Google/Microsoft/Take-your-pick-software-company decides to retire or dramat…

That's what Free Software was supposed to protect users from.
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