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Google Plans to Rebrand Picasa and Blogger
Mashable reports that they have exclusive information from Google: Picasa and Blogger will be renamed Google Photos and Google Blogs. Google is making definite efforts to unify their brand identity, and the independently named products are getting a makeover that will integrate both platforms with Google+. Google has previously renamed other acquired services, rebranding JotSpot into Google Sites and GrandCentral into Google Voice.
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Google+ News Roundup: Updates, Tips, Opinions and More
Google+ has taken over the tech news world! Here’s a list of all the recent updates, including the iPhone app, an invite scam, Tom from Myspace’s opinion, Zuckerberg’s stake, benefits for journalists, formatting tips and more.
Sanyo Xacti VPC-GH4 HD Camcorder Has YouTube and Facebook Support
Sanyo announced a new Xacti camera that is perfect for social media video enthusiasts. The Xacti VPC-GH4 is a full HD 1080 video recording camera that supports Facebook, YouTube, and Picasa uploads. You can also send out Twitter notifications through the camera. Still photos are running at 10 megapixels. The retail price of this new camera is $200. It will be available on the shelves later this month. Full press release below.
Google Integrates Picnik With Picasa
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has integrated online photo editing service Picnik into Picasa Web Albums. This means that Picasa Web Albums users will be able to quickly edit photos without leaving the photo page. This is Google’s first step in integrating Picnik’s service into one of their products since buying them out three months ago. “You will see that theme moving forward in time,” stated former Picnik CEO and current Google lead product manager of photos Jonathan Sposato. “Things will become more rationalized, more consistent.”
[CNET]
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Google Homepage Gets Backgrounds, Bing Knocks It On Twitter
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) added a new feature that lets people add your favorite photos to the background of Google.com. Google has set up collaborations with artists, photographers, and sculptors to create a background image gallery. You can also choose an image or photo from your own computer or Picasa Web Album. Marissa Mayer announced the new feature on the Google Blog.
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Categories Google, Marissa Mayer, Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Corporation, Picasa, Twitter
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Picasa Ups The Number Of Albums To 10,000, Rather Than 1,000
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) Picasa has upped the number of photo albums to 10,000 from 1,000. The photo storage space has not changed, it is still roughly around 7.76GB. The storage space is shared between Google Docs, GMail, and Picasa Web Albums. By default about 100 albums are shown, but to see the rest click on “show more albums” at the bottom. [Mashable]
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Steve Jobs Sends E-mail Revealing Picasa Won’t Be Supported On iTunes
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs wrote an e-mail to a consumer saying that Picasa will not be available on the iPad. A UK reader of 9to5Mac.com wrote the following e-mail to Steve Jobs:
“The iPad photo app looks incredible. Are there any plans to support Picasa’s faces and albums in iTunes, so I can take full advantage of the Photos application, since Photo Album is long discontinued. If not, please can you look into supporting the Picasa library format?”
Jobs wrote back saying: “No, but iPhone on the Mac has much better Faces and Places features.” [9to5Mac]
Categories Apple Inc., Apple iPad, Google, Picasa, Steve Jobs
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Google Drops 20GB Of GMail-Picasa Storage To $5 Per Year
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) software engineer Elvin Lee announced today that the company has dropped the price of 20GB storage between GMail and Picasa to $5 per year. Google currently gives 7.27GB of free storage for GMail and 1GB of free storage for Picasa. Before Google was offering 10GB of storage for $20 per year. For $20 per year now you can buy 80GB worth of storage. I’m highly considering the 80GB option because I have 27GB worth of photos and do not like the way that Facebook decreases the resolution quality when hosting my photos. To add more storage to your account, visit https://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage.
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Google Picasa Now Available For The Mac
Its about time Google! Mac users can finally download, install, and use Picasa. Picasa is Google’s free photo editing software. However there’s a catch. It only works for Mac OS X version 10.4 and is made for Intel-powered Macs. The download is available at http://picasa.google.com/mac.
Picasa is especially useful for those who want to upload their digital camera pictures to the Internet. Every Picasa user gets 1024MB free. Per year additional space costs $20 for 10GB, $75 for 40GB, $250 for 150GB, and $500 for 400GB. Features include image importing, editing, and web syncing. There is a facial recognition feature and a collage maker. Picasa for Mac also recognizes the camera on the iPhone. Privacy features for each individual picture is available.
The release of Picasa for Mac became available now to coincide with the timing of Macworld. Macworld officially begins tomorrow. Google’s booth will have some people representing Picasa there. Google wants people to download the application today and bring them questions and feedback during the conference.
[via Wired and the Google Blog]
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Microsoft Research Launches AutoCollage 2008
Microsoft Research has unleashed a new application called AutoCollage 2008. AutoCollage allows users to take a photos from hard drives and websites, then create a collage. The software is Picasa-like and the features are Slide.com-like. This is the first incubation software that came from Microsoft’s Research Lab in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
The software is available free for 30 days or $19.95 for the non-trial version (£19.90 in the U.K). The service was announced on The Windows Vista Blog. While Picasa already allows this feature
Picasa already has a collage feature built-in for free, but Microsoft is charging for software that only focuses on the collage feature. Why? If anyone uses the AutoCollage, comment here and let us know if it is worth the price.
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