Google is giving away some digital photo management software. As an aftermath of their acuqisition of Picasa last week, the search engine company has dropped the $29 price tag on the software and is now allowing people to download Picasa for free. While I haven't had the chance to try it out, free can't be a bad thing, right? Anybody used Picasa? What do you think of it?
22. Just noticed 15 attemps in my firewall log over the course of 12 minutes of this program trying to connect to share1.picasa.net [on alternate IP addresses too], from a machine that has been idle for 12 hours. I don't consider this sort of activity "checking for software updates". Off it comes.
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by kkhaos
23. Spyware!
Several components of Picasa attempted to connect to the intenet and were reported by ZoneAlarm. I let them have access (trusting Google - don't they have a slogan about making money ethically?). Within hours I had 16 incoming hits on my webserver from 66.249.65.196 and 66.249.66.109 from a bot identified as "Mediapartners-Google/2.1".
This is very suspicious because my web site is running on a non-standard port (how did google get the port number?) and every page on the site has --meta name="robots" content="none, noindex, noarchive, nofollow"-- in the page header. My web site has been up for two years and I have never had a bot hit before - that's why I am running on a non-standard port, I don't want any.
Roger
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Roger
24. Spyware!
Several components of Picasa attempted to connect to the intenet and were reported by ZoneAlarm. I let them have access (trusting Google - don't they have a slogan about making money ethically?). Within hours I had 16 incoming hits on my webserver from 66.249.65.196 and 66.249.66.109 from a bot identified as "Mediapartners-Google/2.1".
This is very suspicious because my web site is running on a non-standard port (how did google get the port number?) and every page on the site has --meta name="robots" content="none, noindex, noarchive, nofollow"-- in the page header. My web site has been up for two years and I have never had a bot hit before - that's why I am running on a non-standard port, I don't want any.
Roger
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Roger
25. My neighbor demonstrated Picasa for me. It looked well-written and easy to use, and I was impressed with its "intelligent" editing features.
I couldn't help wondering, though: Why would Google go to all this trouble---and believe me, software development is expensive---to produce a free program? I'd be a lot more willing to try it if they offered any kind of straightforward, plausible explanation, instead of leaving us to worry about spyware, hidden processes, mysterious files, and so on.
Is this how computing is going to be from now on? Why can't people just try being honest?
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Ander
26. I downloaded the original version of Picasa ages ago and it was very poor programing. Left heaps of ini files all over the place, indexed where I did not want indexed, installed a media detector that I could never completely remove, had poor image quality in slide shows and much, much more problems then I have time to relate. I contacted Lars Perkins with my concerns and was blown off after a few emails. He was arogant and unhelpful, verging on downright rude.
Imagine my surprise to learn that Google has purchased the company and kept Lars to run it! Trust me, it is a piece of dodgy software that does not even come close to many others I use Thumbs Plus and Irfan View among others. Photofiltre seems a quite good recent entry for photo editing. Do yourself a favour, don't load it on your computer.
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Rob
27. Try this....
Right click, properties, version, original filename = payload.exe.
Should i assume this is something to do with the worm of the same name?
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Mike 'kwurk' Briggs
28. I want to remove Picassa from my computer but it does not show up in the Add/Remove programs section OR in my Programs menu. Where is it? How can I uninstall?
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Katharine
29. I want to remove Picassa from my computer but it does not show up in the Add/Remove programs section OR in my Programs menu. Where is it? How can I uninstall?
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Katharine
30. start-run-regedit
search for picasa and delete all references to it in the windows registry
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ref
31. help need original version to transfer off discs steve125674@peoplepc.com
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by steve
32. I cannot access my picasa file, error message pops up, whats happening?
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by candace buck
33. Picasa2 is TERRIBLE!!! It crashes as soon as you try to add a new folder, sometimes even when you first open the program. STAY AWAY FROM THIS PROGRAM; there are plenty of other programs that do the same as this is supposed to; don't waste your time getting only frustrated with Picasa!! DON'T BOTHER WITH PICASA!
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Connecticutlawyer05
34. dude mike and ref are correct I think it's gotten worse.. pay(whatever).tmp.exe immediatly try to connect to the net if I click the .exe(did't install the damn thing) luckily zone alarm stopped it. also looking for picasa in regedit you'll find multiple pay(whatever).tmp.exe this is crap, and i downloaded it from the official website.. they've gotten worse..
and hmm i wonder where some of the viruses came from on my old machine..
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by moderate-tech
35. Downloaded Picasa2 and it works great....BUT: I have AOL and, whenever I try to access the Picasa 'help' file, it won't load because AOL says that "the file is too large". Anybody know of a workaround?
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by mike kolb
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21. The Media Detector is a system tray icon (bottom right - next to the system clock) that looks like the Picasa logo and this can be disabled. This is the program we use to immediately detect when a camera or device is plugged into the computer that contains media you want to display/edit in Picasa. You can close it by right clicking this icon and selecting Stop Picasa Media Detector. If you have disabled the Media Detector and reloading Picasa fails to enable it, go to Tools > Options > General and uncheck Automatically Detect Media and press OK. You can go back to Tools > Options > General and recheck Automatically Detect Media if you wish to enable it again.
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Gunnar - Picasa Support Team