Comments on: Picasa: a rock solid (and free) photo-organizing program from Google http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/10/29/picasa-a-rock-solid-and-free-photo-organizing-program-from-google/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:16:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Erika Price http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/10/29/picasa-a-rock-solid-and-free-photo-organizing-program-from-google/#comment-14884 Erika Price Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:51:13 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1728#comment-14884 Google's all-online word processor Google Docs has gotten pretty rave reviews lately on NPR. Of course, other online word processors exist at this point, too, and they exist for the purpose of collaborative work and storage not tied to any one physical location. It seems that traditional software will soon go by the wayside in favor of these online incarnations. (On a slightly different note, Google Scholar, google's search site for peer-reviewed scholarly articles, has come in handy quite frequently as well). Google’s all-online word processor Google Docs has gotten pretty rave reviews lately on NPR. Of course, other online word processors exist at this point, too, and they exist for the purpose of collaborative work and storage not tied to any one physical location. It seems that traditional software will soon go by the wayside in favor of these online incarnations.

(On a slightly different note, Google Scholar, google’s search site for peer-reviewed scholarly articles, has come in handy quite frequently as well).

]]> By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/10/29/picasa-a-rock-solid-and-free-photo-organizing-program-from-google/#comment-14842 Dan Klarmann Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:16:20 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1728#comment-14842 I've been using ThumbsPlus (by <a href="http://www.cerious.com" target="_blank" title="Try ThumbsPlus for free" rel="nofollow">www.cerious.com</a>) since it ran under DOS 6.2, so I have yet to try Picasa. I admit that I've plunked a couple of hundred dollars into this program for upgrades over the last dozen years, and now have bought into their permanent update program. So it will be free for me from now on. ThumbsPlus started as an image cataloging and tweaking program, and evolved into a tool I use for almost all my imaging needs. Sure, I have to go to <a href="http://gimp-download.com/" target="_blank" title="Free Photoshop equivalent" rel="nofollow">GiMP</a> for anything involving layers or other really fancy Photoshop tweaks. But this is rare: I don't think I've opened GiMP this year. I’ve been using ThumbsPlus (by http://www.cerious.com) since it ran under DOS 6.2, so I have yet to try Picasa. I admit that I’ve plunked a couple of hundred dollars into this program for upgrades over the last dozen years, and now have bought into their permanent update program. So it will be free for me from now on.

ThumbsPlus started as an image cataloging and tweaking program, and evolved into a tool I use for almost all my imaging needs. Sure, I have to go to GiMP for anything involving layers or other really fancy Photoshop tweaks. But this is rare: I don’t think I’ve opened GiMP this year.

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