photo organiser and gmail
An easier way to send up to 10MB of photos
http://picasa.google.com/index.html
Gmail now works with Picasa, Google's free photo organizer. You can use Picasa to easily find, edit and preview your photos. Log in to Gmail directly from Picasa and send the photos from your Gmail account. Picasa even automatically resizes your photos so they're easier to receive and open. Your friends without such large email accounts will thank you.
posted by chris @ 2:45 pm
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About a year ago I got my first Gmail account. I wasn’t too impressed, because it was text-only and I love my italics and other goodies. Shortly thereafter it added .rtf support, and I began switching my mail entirely to Google. I can’t think of any reason I would go back to a computer-based mail client, since I don’t need the ability to use mail with other programs. My address book, contacts, mail files - the whole shebang - is on Google’s triple-redundant servers, and I have access to “everything e-mail” from any computer, anywhere.
Gmail's search ability is amazing, naturally. There's nothing you can't find in a few seconds, if you know enough about it to want it in the first place. The spam filters are as close to perfect as I've seen, and trainable for greater accuracy. Stuff that resembles real e-mail closely enough does get through; there has to be a line somewhere. Check the bogus stuff off and click "Report Spam," however, and you'll never see another bit of mail from that address. I checked for a while to see if "real" mail was being discarded. Nada. Lately, I haven't bothered. Another thing I like is that Gmail won't accept executable files at all. That can be an occasional pain, as it was this evening when I wanted to send a small program to a friend as an attachment, but it essentially eliminates transmission of unpleasant-ware in both directions - a good thing. Graphics can be rejected, and a text option is also available for folks who don't trust HTML. Photos can be viewed without downloading them, both in large thumbnail form and full-size. Attachments are presently limited to 10 MB, but knowing Google...
Even with dialup, Gmail isn't slow enough to be a real problem, since the (tiny) ads are all text, unlike AIM-mail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, and most others, which are full of graphics and take forever to load. Once the page is loaded, you're only down- and uploading text, and you hardly notice the lag. No ads or plugs for Gmail are included with your outgoing mail. The only time you see them is in mail you receive - tucked off to the side like on Google's search pages. Its computers tailor the ads to the content - unseen by human eyes - and they're so accurate that I frequently find them useful. Some folks worry about privacy. Well, if you think you have privacy now, we need to talk. I trust Google to do what's in Google's interest, and I find it hard to imagine that reading my mail will ever be in that category. On the other hand, if it got out that it was doing it, it would cost Google a lot. By the same reasoning, I doubt it'll ever charge for Gmail. It's a great venue for its ads, so what would it charge for - no ads?
If you like using stationary and other bells and whistles beyond the usual .rtf formatting, you're out of luck at the moment. However, coming from the Googleplex, you never know. I wouldn't mind being able to use HTML in signatures. Also, I'm a little bit worried about storage. It's only been a year, and already I've used nearly 6% of my 2.474 GB, (last time I checked; Google keeps increasing it.)
Gmail's still in beta, and requires an invitation. Google gives a bunch of invites to anyone who's had an account for more than a few weeks, however, so getting one isn't exactly a feat of cunning. I'll probably regret this, but heck, if you can't find one someplace else, drop me a line. It may come from a strange address, but I'll send you one. I'll need a good e-mail address to send it to, and when the couple of hundred I've got are gone... that's it. That way you can try it, and it won't cost you a thing.
(Thanks to John Belanger for the idea.)
http://www.hello.com/how_it_works.php
instantly share photos with friends, even high res ones. they see a low res version and then choose to download a larger one. Easier than emailing, like instant chat, instant photos...
chris
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