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Google Sites Adds Picasa Imports, Feeds And Templates

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Google Sites, the visual web site builder that’s been fairly quiet since it launched publicly, just picked up a laundry list of features. Easy importing from Picasa, Docs and other Google apps, site RSS feeds, and templates have all landed. More »

CNET Declares Picasa The Winner At Facial Recognition

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | CNET’s Josh Lowensohn used his own mug as a standard to measure the facial recognition prowess of iPhoto, Windows Live Gallery and newcomer face-finder Picasa 3.5. More »

Install Picasa 3.5 In Linux

10:00PM Kevin Purdy | Want the same kind of facial recognition, name tagging and easy geo-location of Picasa 3.5 for Windows and Mac on your Linux desktop? There’s no official release, but you can fairly easily plug Picasa into your system. More »

Picasa 3.5 Organises Your Photos With Facial Recognition

6:05AM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac: Google’s free desktop photo organiser is stepping up to iPhoto and other web tools by adding face recognition and syncing it with Picasa Web Albums, making it easy to send Uncle Bob every single photo you’ve got of Aunt Marla. More »

Picasa Web Albums Adds Collaboration

1:30AM Adam Pash | Picasa Web Albums—the internet-facing component of the popular desktop photo management application—has added a new feature that lets you collaborate on albums with your friends. More »

Make A Life Poster Using Picasa

1:00PM Angus Kidman | If you’ve got a bunch of pictures from a special occasion, then you might want to do more than share them on Facebook. Using Google’s free Picasa editor (a favourite among Lifehacker readers), you can easily create a life poster with the best images. More »

Picasa Web Adds Advanced Search, Creative Comments Filter

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Picasa Web Albums, Google’s image sharing service, has added advanced options for searching, making it easier to find just the size and orientation of photo you want, as well as opening the doors to commercial use and remixes. More »

Preview YouTube Videos, Pictures And Yelp Reviews in Gmail

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Gmail users can get video and picture previews embedded in any message containing a link to a YouTube video, Flickr or Picasa Web Album pictures, or even Yelp reviews with the four latest Gmail Labs features. Play-able video thumbs, picture previews, and a Yelp summary are posted at the bottom of any Gmail message containing direct links to those services—and that’s about all these do, though it might be helpful to anyone who selectively watches or browses links at work, or otherwise knowing what you’re in for. Google Operating System suggests that the bottom placement can be done better with an extension like Interclue, which we haven’t tested out, but seems to allow selective mouse-over previews of certain media. New in Labs: YouTube, Picasa, Flickr and Yelp previews [Official Gmail Blog] More »

Add Pictures To Picasa Web Allbums Via Email

5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | For those travelling, away from their system or otherwise in need of a quick photo upload, Picasa Web Albums now let you email in your album additions. To enable email uploads, from your Picasa Web Albums account, click on settings and scroll down until you see the Upload Photos by Email section as seen in the screenshot here. Check the box, then type in a secret word. The secret word becomes the suffix on your address in the form of username.secretword@picasaweb.com. Then you’ll want to add your upload address, like myusername.zomgpictures@picasaweb.com, to your email client to prevent head-scratching later on. Really convenient: The subject line of your email chooses the album your pictures jump into. Emails without a subject or with a subject that doesn’t match an existing album are dumped into your generic drop box. Emails are limited to 20MB in size, but there’s no restriction on the number of files you can send. Send Your Photos to Your Picasa Web Album with an Email [MakeUseOf] More »