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Re: Moving on from Picasa

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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.

I spoke to someone at Google on the phone about a problem I had with Google Music. There is a "request callback" link in the help/support section. I've also asked questions on the phone regarding purchasing videos from their digital store- specifically, what quality playback would be supported on my Chromebook model. It didn't take long from question asked -> question answered in either case.

Re: Moving on from Picasa

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I was a Picasa user for several years and I really liked it, but after Google Photos was announced and I saw the handwriting on the wall and completely switched (with much consternation) to Google Photos and have had a great experience. I uploaded over 17,000 to the Google-free tier and applaud all the automation they have built around auto-panorama-stitching, auto-animations, auto-face-tagging, auto-object, and auto…

A big +1 Having an "AI" organize, edit and tag my photos frees up a lot of time. Part of the transition is learning to let go of the way I used to manage photos. I still want the right to take all my stuff with me - but I think Google has done a reasonable job of ensuring that happens.

You're right: export exists but couldn't definitely use some work. I also wish there was a better way to manage captions/descriptions.

How do you manage photos now? Do you still keep an offline copy? With any folder structure?

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Feedly's use of whitespace bugs the crap out of me. I also don't like the behavior on the desktop as much. I much prefer Inoreader. https://www.inoreader.com

the big white bars in desktop? I'm okay with it. when reading, it is easier when the content is compacted. if the text was full length of a browser, supposedly it is harder to read or people lose interest. Now, youtube is video, so I'm not sure whats up with their white bars but I digress.

Even Google Reader had a maximum width of its content with any white space being on the right side of the content. I MUCH prefer this UI.

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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.

Thanks, both Snip and ShareX are very nice, I'm now testing them.

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> 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 :-)

It can, actually: https://github.com/postgrespro/imgsmlr :P
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