news.cnet.com - 12/4/2008
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Mike Horowitz, product manager for Google's Picasa software for managing photos and the Web site for sharing them, has left the company for Fetch Technologies .
"Mike was a valued member of the Picasa team and Google, and we wish him well in his new endeavors. We have a talented ...
googlesystem.blogspot.com - 12/4/2008
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googlesystem.blogspot.com —
Picasa Web Albums added a new option that
makes your albums truly private. If you edit an...
album's properties and select "Require sign-in to view", only the people you are explicitly sharing the album can see it. "Select the 'Require sign-in to view' ...
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Private Albums in Picasa Web
googlesystem.blogspot.com - 11/30/2008
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googlesystem.blogspot.com —
It is a fatastic tool. I have 50
some web albums and over 1000 photos on Google...
Picasa. Now I can map a drive and download them to my new laptop and backup to Amazon S3. Very cool.
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Easy Access to Online Storage Services
lifehacker.com - 12/8/2008
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lifehacker.com —
Now that you've seen all the big names
and launches of 2008, it's time to give a...
nod to the apps that didn't get the attention they should have this past year. If you're sick of hearing about Firefox...
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Most Underhyped Apps of 2008 [Best Of 2008]
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Locked Picasa Web Albums
Google Blogoscoped —
Google added an option to their photo gallery app Picasa Web Albums offering you to lock albums. The option is named “Sign-in required to view,” meaning only people you share the album with are meant to access it, after signing in with their Google account. The pictures themselves – like this image from a sign-in album – are still technically public, though the URLs are probably cryptic enough to stop people from simply guessing them (it might still be better to password-protect even the image URL itself).
In the past, Google already offered (and continues to offer) what they call “unlisted” albums, but ...
Picasa Web Albums Get Lock Option
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[image] Google added an option to their photo gallery app Picasa Web Albums offering you to lock albums. The option is named Sign-in required to view, meaning only people you share the album with are meant to access it, after signing in with their Google account. The pictures themselves like this image from a sign-in album are still technically public, though the URLs are probably cryptic enough to stop people from simply guessing them (it might still be better to password-protect even the image URL itself). [image] In the past, Google already offered (and continues to offer) what they call unlisted albums, but those were troubled with privacy ...
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