Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Google Releases Photo Organizing Software

Forbes.com
"Google Inc. released free software Tuesday for organizing and finding the hundreds or thousands of digital photos often stored on a computer's hard drive. Using technology developed by Picasa Inc., which Google bought last year, the new software will try to make keeping a photo collection and editing pictures simple even for beginners, said Lars Perkins, Picasa's general manager."

Main features:

Does not use folders and files, uses proprietry search instead
Very easy to use tools
IE 5.01 or higher, or Mozilla Firefox


It seems to me that Google are intent on changing the way users organise their data, making storage and retrieval as easy as possible for the public especially. Once you get mass take up of such tools or features outside the techie sphere reaching tipping point and taking over the desktop should be a doddle.

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