Wandering Tech » Picasa http://wanderingtech.com Either from lack of focus or breadth of interest, let's wander technology Mon, 17 May 2010 05:13:35 +0000 en hourly 1 Slept through Google’s storage surge http://wanderingtech.com/2009/11/slept-through-googles-storage-surge/ http://wanderingtech.com/2009/11/slept-through-googles-storage-surge/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:58:38 +0000 jed http://wanderingtech.com/?p=115
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Another day, definitely at an earlier time of day, I may go into my history of examining the “cloud” related to the storage of photos for sharing and secondary backup. For now, I just want to express my pleasant surprise at a Google announcement that came nearly two weeks ago. In a post at their official blog and cross-posted on the Picasa team’s blog, Google announced that they were providing “twice as much storage for a quarter of the old price.” So, from $20/year for 6GB to $5/year for 20GB or under a full utilization standpoint, from just under 28¢/GB/month to to just barely over 2¢/GB/month. This change dramatically shifts Picasa Web Albums rank in my internal cloud storage rankings. I haven’t yet decided how it’ll impact my workflow but it does require me to reach out to a number of friends and update my recommendations. I wonder how I missed this news initially. I may need to revisit my feed reader practices.

]]> http://wanderingtech.com/2009/11/slept-through-googles-storage-surge/feed/ 0 Picasa and Linux http://wanderingtech.com/2009/09/picasa-and-linux/ http://wanderingtech.com/2009/09/picasa-and-linux/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:17:16 +0000 jed http://wanderingtech.com/?p=51 Old news now, but was frustrating enough that I finally decided to say something. Google apparently decided that the Picasa installs by Linux users have been too low to justify rolling out the 3.5 version for Linux. It’s difficult to imagine why since it is basically the Windows version wrapped up with the appropriate Wine pieces to make everything work. It’s frustrating since I’ve only really used the software under Linux. Oh well, fortunately a number of good folks have rolled up instructions on how to manually get everything straightened out. Here is one from a blog that I’ve really begun to enjoy:

OMG! UBUNTU!: Install Picasa 3.5 In Linux

Hopefully leaving Linux behind won’t become a trend for Google.

Sad penguin

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