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Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by Gmo »

19870213 wrote: post #96
sls wrote: post #57

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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.

Huh ? You can change the language (I'm in France and I have my theoldreader in English). You just need to click on your login at the top right and go to "Settings" (probably Instellingen in Dutch).

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

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

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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.

Digikam is good for photo management (though the facial recognition doesn't yet work as well for me as Picasa did 10 years ago).

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by voltagex_ »

prostoalex wrote: post #119
tshtf wrote: post #81

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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/

ring.to sign-up seems to assume porting an existing number. Is there a way to sign up for a new number?

>RingTo launched over two years ago with a simple mission: help more people keep the phone numbers they love. In the spirit of moving forward, several changes are coming down the pipeline we want to share with you.

>In early 2016, RingTo will transition to a paid service and will no longer offer free accounts to new or existing users. But don’t worry, we’re making it worth your while to stay with us!

I'd say they haven't quite finished the new signup yet.

I guess this is a good thing? If it's paid it might stick around for a while longer.

Edit: not sure I'd touch them - http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=9094a6314c49a804bd522a79...

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by usrusr »

CaptSpify wrote: post #140
jbob2000 wrote: post #52

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That's kind of Google's modus operandi though, isn't it? They don't make desktop apps unless there is a distinct need for it (Google Earth, for example). They are all about the web!

I think that's the complaint though: Why take a perfectly fine working desktop application, move it to the web, then remove the desktop side? Presumably, if I wanted the web version, I would have started with the web version.

Because a free great desktop app, paid for by a freemium (or free-for-ecosystem-lock-in) online service was quite a thing, but never a permanent/sustainable one. I suspect that I will use an utterly outdated version of picasa for quite a while, because it already wildly exceeds my demands for an offline snaps-management application in its current version. Hope they did not sneak in a kill-switch in a previous update.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by joosters »

technojunkie wrote: post #77
sigjuice wrote: post #44

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

This is as close to Google Reader as I've gotten with any of them. https://www.inoreader.com

Inoreader is fantastic! Works great on the web or in an app.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by wstrange »

kuschku wrote: post #141
xd1936 wrote: post #104

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> 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.

Photo search is pretty cool.

I just searched for "James in the Mountains" and got photos of my Son in the mountains.

I don't think postgres can do that :-)

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by jmathai »

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.

My 3 part blog series on how I automated my workflow using Elodie and Google Photos will probably be interesting to you.

https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-aut...

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by wstrange »

mey wrote: post #79
D_Guidi wrote: post #68

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

Google of course thinks that wrong, they want you on their platform. Doesn't mean it's what I want as a consumer (with a DSLR and NAS full of RAW images)

You are not their target market - which is fine. There many good options for serious photographers.

90% of folks just want seamless backup and organization of their photos. Phone cameras are getting pretty amazing in quality these days. Google photos caters to that demand.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by Spooky23 »

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...

Reader was the "fool me twice" moment with Google.

The shitshow that was (and is) Google Groups and the destruction of the dejanews archive was equally awful.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by ChrisClark »

kuschku wrote: post #141
xd1936 wrote: post #104

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> 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.

I love the search. My wife wanted a photo of my son at the park on the slide. So I searched for 'slide'. All my photos that I've taken with any slide in it show up.
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