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Google Picasa & Photo Sharing jaygreg 02-03-2007
Posted by jaygreg on February 3, 2007, 11:25 pm
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I'm not a photo sharing computer user. Don't have a webpage nor any need for
one. I've been aware that sites like MySpace and Flickr are popular for
socializing and posting photos. Still... no personal utility.

Today I just saw a potential use. From time to time, I use a digital camera
to photgraph construction problems; renovations, repairs, and things needing
fixed that get a tad expensive and involved. I've been printing these out
and carrying then with me. It would be helpful to simply view them from
machines owned by the merchants and vendors with whom I find myself
discussing the problems.

Google's Picasa caught my eye so I read most of the writeup. Then I came to
the part where I needed to place something of theirs on my machine. I was
hoping to avoid that.

Am I being too cautious? Can someone please give me a recommendation of a
web photo service I should use that more closely fits this type of use?



Posted by Arthur T. on February 4, 2007, 11:53 am
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>Google's Picasa caught my eye so I read most of the writeup. Then I came to
>the part where I needed to place something of theirs on my machine. I was
>hoping to avoid that.
>
>Am I being too cautious?

I installed, but then removed Picasa.

It's full-featured and very easy to use. However, it
continually looks for pictures on you computer and stores
information about them onto C:. Since C: is one of my few drives
that's *not* encrypted, I considered this a data leak. As near as
I could tell, there was no easy way to tell it to not collect the
data or to use a different drive/directory.

I've seen reference to a number of sites that allow you to
upload various kinds of data, some of which will be publicly
browsable, some which you'd need to know the exact URL. I haven't
needed one, so I don't know their names. Google is your friend.

--
Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" intergate "dot" com
Looking for a z/OS (IBM mainframe) systems programmer position

Posted by jaygreg on February 5, 2007, 1:17 pm
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Thanks, Arthur T. I didn't think Google would venture somewhere that made
gurus unhappy but I wasn't sure.


>
>>Google's Picasa caught my eye so I read most of the writeup. Then I came
>>to
>>the part where I needed to place something of theirs on my machine. I was
>>hoping to avoid that.
>>
>>Am I being too cautious?
>
> I installed, but then removed Picasa.
>
> It's full-featured and very easy to use. However, it
> continually looks for pictures on you computer and stores
> information about them onto C:. Since C: is one of my few drives
> that's *not* encrypted, I considered this a data leak. As near as
> I could tell, there was no easy way to tell it to not collect the
> data or to use a different drive/directory.
>
> I've seen reference to a number of sites that allow you to
> upload various kinds of data, some of which will be publicly
> browsable, some which you'd need to know the exact URL. I haven't
> needed one, so I don't know their names. Google is your friend.
>
> --
> Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" intergate "dot" com
> Looking for a z/OS (IBM mainframe) systems programmer position



Posted by Arthur T. on February 5, 2007, 6:29 pm
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>Thanks, Arthur T. I didn't think Google would venture somewhere that made
>gurus unhappy but I wasn't sure.

You're welcome. (I'm not a guru; just someone who's
cautious.)

BTW, if you have Windows Indexing turned on, the same kind of
data leak occurs, but for text rather than pictures.

--
Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" intergate "dot" com
Looking for a z/OS (IBM mainframe) systems programmer position

Posted by jaygreg on February 6, 2007, 1:30 am
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RE "Windows Indexing" ... what's that? I couldn't find anything in a search.

>
>>Thanks, Arthur T. I didn't think Google would venture somewhere that made
>>gurus unhappy but I wasn't sure.
>
> You're welcome. (I'm not a guru; just someone who's
> cautious.)
>
> BTW, if you have Windows Indexing turned on, the same kind of
> data leak occurs, but for text rather than pictures.
>
> --
> Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" intergate "dot" com
> Looking for a z/OS (IBM mainframe) systems programmer position



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