A version of this morph software is also available in Google Picasa. Thus you can also have such morph animations for your pictures using this software.

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http://picasaweb.google.com/grungestar/MyPics

You may not want to show you Picasa ID with others at times while sharing your pictures. Though Picasa lets you select a nickname, your ID will still be shown in the URL as shown above. But you can hide your original Picasa ID. Here’s how you do it.

Login to Picasaweb. Then click on Settings at the top. In the right hand side you’ll see a box that asks for your Gallery URL. There you’ll find a link saying “Want to add a new Google username?”. Clicking on this will take you to a page where you can provide an alternate username for your Picasa albums. Put anything you like which is available(i.e which is not taken by others). If you use a username like “myfriendpicasa”, your Gallery URL for Web Albums will look like this:

http://picasaweb.google.com/myfriendpicasa/MyPics

Now return to the previous page and then select the username you just created for your Web Albums.

This way you’ll able to hide your original Picasa ID from being known to others. What’s more interesting about this is that you can logon to your Gmail account using this username as well. This will be an alternate login id to your Google Profile. But you can add upto a maximum of four usernames. You can make this your primary username for logging in to Gmail if you think it is better than the one you were using previously. Don’t worry it is just for your use. You won’t receive any emails if someone sends a message to this ID (say myfriendpicasa@gmail.com).

So, you can hide your original Picasa identity and still share your pictures without a glitch using this trick. And also create a new username for your Google Account.

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You can download the high resolution photos shared by your loved ones over Picasa with just a few mouse clicks. Picasa has another cool feature; it can sync the changes in photos being shared between your computer and the Picasa Web Albums. Moreover easy notifications and privacy control in Picasa are also very useful.

Till now the desktop application Picasa used for uploading photos to Picasa Web Albums was only available for Windows XP, Vista and Linux. Mac users were relying upon a standalone Picasa Web Albums uploader and iPhoto album plugin for uploading photos to their Web Albums. But with the release of Picasa for Mac, millions of people using Picasa Web Albums around the globe will be benefitted.

Picasa for Mac is much similar to the one available for Windows. All the features available in Windows version like cropping, correcting color balance and exposures, making collages etc. are available in the Mac version as well. Features like automatically detecting new bunch of photos added anywhere on your hard drive and then automatically accounting for the new images you add are also available.

The professionals at Google say that they have tried to make this version of Picasa for Mac to adjust healthily with iPhoto so that the iPhoto library will never be affected by Picasa. Right now this is being released as a beta product from the Google Labs. So some features like geotagging and third party printing will still not be available in this version. To use Picasa for Mac, you’ll need Mac OS X 10.4 and above.

So, the Mac users out there, get ready to roll on with Picasa for Mac. Check out the video below.

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Xoopit can be used in various ways. You can use it as an add-on in your firefox browser, in your Google homepage iGoogle, or through their website Xoopit.com. Once you install the plugin in Firefox and let it access the data in your Gmail account by providing the credentials required(Your username and password), Xoopit will start digging deep into all of your mail archives and after 24 hours you will be able to browse your images or videos inside Gmail via a streaming bar at the top. You can also view these files without logging in to Gmail. Just logon to Xoopit and start viewing or downloading your photos or videos.

Xoopit indexes the content of your Gmail via an IMAP interface. After installing Xoopit, you will be able to see thumbnails of the videos or picture in the Gmail’s search at the sidebar. Xoopit will let you sort the media files in reverse chronological order. You can also sort your media by the addresses of people who sent it to you, by source(Flickr, Youtube, Shutterfly,  or Picasa) or by file type. You can simply access the content of an album in Flickr by a URL send to you. Xoopit makes it easy to share the media with friends over Facebook or Twitter, comment on photos and much more.

With Xoopit, you can search the web while composing your mail and add the details directly into your message. It will also let you learn about your contacts in the address book. The company plans to launch Xoopit for AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo too in near future. So do much more with Gmail and wait till Xoopit is launched for other services as well.

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