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Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by jbuzbee »

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 way-cool in Google Photos. Want to see every photo of beer? Search for it. Mountains, cars, places, a named person, animals, etc. I feel the need less and less to meta-tag my photos.

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Post by hotcool »

_yp wrote: post #47
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…

Try DigiKam - it's open source and its photo management features work very well. > Does anyone have a web or desktop alternative that supports tagging on individual and multiple photos? DigiKam!

Thanks for the recommendation. Works well on both Windows and Linux. Problem solved!

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Post by TheWiseOne »

mastazi wrote: post #209
snake117 wrote: post #55

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> 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. Although I never really used Picasa, Dropbox's decision to shutdown Mailbox and, to a lesser extent, Carousel, was particularly upsetting for me. Although in the case of Mailbox it was more due to a decline in acquiring new users after the buyout [1]. I'm not too bummed…

They also decided to shut down Skitch which I use on a daily basis. Lately I've been looking for an alternative (on Windows) and I think I will go for Greenshot http://getgreenshot.org/

Look into Snip from Microsoft (https://mix.office.com/Snip) and ShareX (https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX) for a couple other alternatives.

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Post by XJOKOLAT »

kbutler wrote: post #219
XJOKOLAT wrote: post #199

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How long before Google+ bites the dust? Sounds ludicrous, right? Until it happens. Lesson is: either pay for it, or support open source.

I'm not sure why the "If I pay for it, it will continue" meme persists. Your payment does not guarantee continuing availability. Many paid products and services vanish as well. Require open source.

True. No guarantees.

However, my own anecdotal evidence tells me that everything I've ever paid for and cared about is still in existence (even the crappy little utility-apps).

That's a far higher success rate than the company in question. And sure, there's a reason for that by the very nature of Google's business model and strategy. Doesn't mean I have to accept or like it.

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Post by thinkdevcode »

dimgl wrote: post #143

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…

Big companies are already big brands. Most acquisitions take place for talent, IP, or users/customers.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by vit05 »

Mobile, Mobile, Mobile... Ok, we get it. But, please, remember of Google+. Do not try force people to do something, killing what they use now. If the other option is really better, they will migrate really soon.

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Post by technojunkie »

dingo_bat wrote: post #211
joosters wrote: post #165

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

The app is nowhere close in polish to the google reader app, but I make do :'(

Considering all the rest of the Reader clones that have popped up, I think this one comes as close to Google Reader as they get.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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Post by joveian »

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…

Microsoft seems much better at this than the others you mentioned (or Linux).

Compatability seems like something that the Qubes model could help with quite a bit. Rump kernels can also help by simplifying the OS level interface to where effective sandboxing is possible. Getting safe and convient access to the data an app actually needs is still a difficult issue.

Minus the sandboxing, some package managers are better at this than others, particularly Nix or OpenPandora's PND packages. However, that only helps as long as the OS provides binary compatability.

Even with sandboxing, applications that require network access can be a major security issue. It is no consolation to the rest of the network if your botnet node is nicely isolated from the rest of your system. To fix this, applications need to not directly interact with the network but with other system components that do so and can be updated separately.

OTOH, often the compatibility loss is independent of the application, either communications standards change or expected features change, so being able to run old applications only gets you so much. In those cases, open source can have a major advantage.

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Post by gst »

fencepost wrote: post #180
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…

My expectation of Google Voice going away has kept me from doing more with it or many other Google products; what's funny is that by showing even token effort they could easily turn me into a $5-10/month paying customer instead of one who actively avoids depending on anything Google. As it is I'll keep paying my money to my lightly used long term online fax service and perhaps at some point I'll switch over to a paid…

I don't see a reason to not use Google Voice, after all it's easy to port the number somewhere else in case they shut down.
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