Picasa is software that lets you instantly find, edit and share pictures on a PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures on your PC and sorts them into visual albums and organize it by date with folder names. You can also drag and drop to re-arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups.

With Picasa 2, you can turn your photos into a movie, make personalized desktop picture or a screensaver, create posters and even make picture collages. It even allows you to do some basic photo editing like remove red eye, fix the contrast, color, rotate, write captions or apply filters like turn color pictures into black-n-white or apply the sepia effect. You can also create slide shows and burn them to a CD to share with friends.

Eileen Rodriguez of GooglePress writes about new and improved features of Picasa:

* Advanced editing tools - Fix pictures with more powerful tools, 12 photographic filter effects, color and lighting adjustments, red-eye removal, photo cropping and straightening.
* Improved organization - Add captions, quickly and easily search across all photos on a computer, attach labels and stars for better photo organization, reorder pictures and clean up cluttered folders.
* Backup capabilities - Archive photos from a computer to a CD or DVD, save photos on an external drive, and create gift CDs with personalized slideshows.
* Customized prints - Print at home with standard sizes, or order photo prints by uploading pictures to Ofoto, Shutterfly, Snapfish, and Walmart.com.
* Enhanced sharing features - Email photos via Gmail (and other email clients), upload photos to a Blogger blog, and send and discuss photos in real-time via HelloTM, Picasa's free peer-to-peer software, available at http://www.hello.com

"With Picasa 2, we've made it easier for people to find, organize, improve and enhance their photographs, as well as create photo CDs, personalized slideshows, desktop collages, and much more," said Lars Perkins, General Manager, Picasa, Google Inc. "Digital photos are an important and growing category of personal information, and Picasa is in line with Google's commitment to develop advanced technologies that further help users to find, organize and share information that's important to them."

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People have already have 25MB and even 250MB, but the majority of Hotmail users still only have 2MB. There is a hack that would increase inbox size.

All you have to do is to turn off Messenger and signup for an Hotmail account. Then Go to options/personal and then My profile. Change country code to USA and pick a state and a valid zip code. After the changes, click update than continue. While you are still logged onto Hotmail go here and deactivate your account. All your mails will remain safe even when you deactivate. Now you have to go to hotmail and log with your username and password and you will automatically reactivate your account.

When you log in you will see that you have a 250MB account limit.


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Yahoo Desktop Search, much awaited is finally released. This helps to search Word document, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Outlook, Outlook Express, HTML, text, ZIP, PhotoShop, Illustrator and over 200 other file types on your PC. It also provides Preview Pane in Yahoo! Desktop Search.

Yahoo! desktop search has a built-in viewer and you can view search results as quickly as you can type with your search terms highlighted. The file preview looks exactly as they should look. You can even play audio files without the need of an external player.

Unlike other applications, Yahoo's lets people sort and refine query results within seconds by merely typing a letter or two into one of several linear search boxes, which include file size, name and date/time.

Since Yahoo supports text based search, you can even use search inside your text inside code files like *.c, *.cc. It ensures your privacy by not indexing your Web browser history. You can even save your favorite searches for one-click reuse. Yahoo! Desktop Search provides you with an indicator of its indexing progress in the bottom right hand corner of the application so you'll know when all of your files and emails are searchable.

Yahoo! Desktop Search works on PC's running Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000 SP3 and SP4.

Yahoo has acknowledged that the beta product has one data security issue. It will index and display as search results e-mail that's been archived into a password-protected file will be indexed and displayed in the preview pane. The company promised to fix the bug in a subsequent release.


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VIVE realizing the revenue potential of blogs recently introduced content targeted Video Ads for the Blogs. The Video format displays video ads related to the content of the blog. Blog authors will receive up to 60% of the total revenue share.

Just like Google Adsense, VIVE too will run a mix of CPC and CPM ad campaigns. Currently participation by invitation only and limited to residents of the United States. Request an invitation by sending an email with your name and blog URL to videobeta@vivenetwork.com. Once approved, Vive Network will immediately start serving targeted video ads for your blog.

The Vive Video ads are actually Flash (.swf) files that can be easily embedded just like Text or Image Ads.


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