New Links to Picasa Photo Albums

Hello Dancers,


I'll put usable links in my new e-mails.  If you want to read tedious details, read on:


In December, Google decided to make Picasa users log in to Google in order to see the photos in Google's Picasa web photo albums.  Google was urging people to switch to Google+ albums, a vastly inferior photo album service.  There was a big uproar over that on the Picasa forums!!  (I'm sure Google would disagree with my analysis, but anyway what I'm saying is what I believe to be true.)


Most Picasa album users do NOT want to get a Google account and log in (as people must do for Yahoo and Facebook).  So, Google slightly relented.  At least for the moment, there are alternate URL links to take you directly to Picasa on line photo albums without the need to log in to Google.  


For the December 2011 album, use  
https://picasaweb.google.com/103176925923805337179/2011December?noredirect=1

For January 2012 album, use:  
https://picasaweb.google.com/103176925923805337179/2012January?noredirect=1


By the way, these photos go with the ForeverYoungSD group emails that I email on occasion.  Direct access (without log in to Google) to all the older albums going back to 2009 in the Jestoni Bistro was also blocked in December 2011, but you can still see them once you get to any of my Picasa albums using the above links.  Just click on my name (Bert Donaldson) and all the older album titles & cover photos will appear.


As before, I put the same photos in the "Photos" section of the ForeverYoungSD Yahoo Group using the same album names as in Picasa.  (Yahoo, like Facebook, requires an account & password to see photo albums on their services.)


I'm gradually learning Picasa's good points (yeah - just when Google decides to muck it up).  Image quality is better - minimal image distortion.  You can easily get to a largely full screen slideshow by hitting "slideshow".  To stop in mid-show and see the photo title, hit "Esc" (Escape), click on the photo tile and the photo title, etc., appears in a panel on the right, for most computers.  To resume slideshow, click on "Full Screen", then click on the Play button at the bottom.  In some cases, merely clicking "Esc" will bring up a photo's title, etc.


Till we dance again, best wishes,


Bert
home: 619-224-3095 (also has answering machine)
cell: 619-342-6524