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Announcing Picasa 3.5, now with name tags, better geotagging and more
Announcing Picasa 3.5, now with name tags, better geotagging and more
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:12 PM Posted by Todd Bogdan, Software Engineer Today, we are pleased to announce Picasa 3.5, a new version of our free photo editing software for Mac or PC. Picasa 3.5 has name tags and uses the same technology that powers name tags on Picasa Web Albums . With name ...
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youtube.com — Download at http://picasa.google.com. Picasa 3.5 has name tags, geo-tagging with Google Maps, an improved import room, and... more. (more) What's new in Picasa 3.5 (video)
PURE Sensia WiFi and DAB radio packs Facebook, Twitter & more
PURE Sensia WiFi and DAB radio packs Facebook, Twitter & more
slashgear.com — PURE have already been pushing their WiFi and DAB radios for some time now, but their latest... Sensia model really deserves to tip them over into prime-time. The PURE Sensia couples both a DAB/DAB+ digital radio and WiFi streaming into a single model, ... (more) PURE Sensia WiFi and DAB radio packs Facebook, Twitter & ...
Picasa 3.5 brings facial recognition and geo-tags
Picasa 3.5 brings facial recognition and geo-tags
techradar.com — Google has announced the release of Picasa 3.5 -with the popular photo editing software given tagging functionality... and face recognition. The free software – available for both PC and Mac – also brings the integration of Google Maps, allowing you to geo-tag your Eiffel Tower photos to your ... (more) Picasa 3.5 brings facial recognition and geo-tags
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Google Releases Picasa 3.5
TechWeb — ... engineer Todd Bogdan in a blog post . "It puts all these groups into the 'Unnamed People' album, from where you can easily add a name ...

New face-tagging, iPhoto compatibility, & more Mac-friendly features in Picasa 3.5
Google Mac Blog — By Todd Bogdan, Software Engineer Today, I'm happy to announce that we're releasing Picasa 3.5, a new version of our free photo editing software. Since we launched it as a beta Labs product 9 months ago, we've been steadily improving Picasa for Mac. Now that it has almost all the same features as the PC version, we've decided it's time to remove the beta label once and for all. If you haven't tried Picasa for Mac, the new version gives you the ability to add name tags to your photos so that you organize them by what matters most: people. Picasa ...

New Picasa Lets You Use Name Tags
WebProNews Feed — ... "When you first launch Picasa 3.5, it will start scanning the photos in your computer's collection to create groups of similar faces," explains Software Engineer Todd Bogdan. "It puts all these groups into the "Unnamed People" album, where you can easily add a name tag to a set of faces by clicking "Add a name" and typing the person's name. Make sure you're signed into your Google account so names you type will auto-complete with your Google contacts." ...

Picasa Adds Facial Recognition And Geo-Tagging To Its Desktop App
TechCrunch — ... you can find in Picasa Web albums to its desktop app. With today’s release of Picasa 3.5, when you add a name tag, it scans your entire photo library and applies that name to every match. If it’s not sure it’s the same face, it gives you the option to apply the tag. ...

Picasa 3.5 Incorporates Photo Tagging, Google Maps
AppScout — ... "You can use the name tags you've added and your new people albums to do creative things with your photos. For example, you can find all of the photos with the same two people in them, create customizable face collages, time-lapse movies, and more," Google wrote in a blog post. ...

Picasa 3.5 add “face-tagging, iPhoto compatibility, geotagging” features
D' Technology Weblog — Picasa 3.5 for Mac or PC lets you add “name tags” to your photos, and groups similar faces. After you've tagged some photos with names, you can do creative things with your tagged photos, like quickly finding all photos with same two people in them, making a face collage for a friend, or simply uploading and sharing people albums. Picasa 3.5 also integrated Google Maps so you can more easily geotag your photos. And using our redesigned import ...

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Picasa Gets Face Recognition, Built-in Google MapsTechnologizer
I can never quite tell if Google considers its free Picasa image organizer/editor to be a Major Google Product–it doesn’t update it all that often, or promote it as energetically as it might. But it’s announcing Picasa 3.5 today, which should be available for Windows and OS X ...