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Picapy: Desktop ‘Picasa Web’ file browser for Ubuntu

Managing your Picasa Web photos without opening a browser or installing Google’s Wine-friendly Picasa Photo editor is possible using Picapy – a python based file browser for Picasa Web albums.

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Installing Picasa 3.8 in Ubuntu via WINE: What works, what doesn’t.

Google Picasa 3.8 was released yesterday to much fanfare. A bunch of neat new features landed including: – Edit photos in Picnik directly from Picasa 3.8 Batch upload Photo properties and the show stealing ‘Face Movie’ feature Ubuntu users don’t have access to a neatly packaged version of 3.8. Here’s where Wine comes to the rescue [...]

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Photobucket “no longer supporting Linux”

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Photobucket – once the darling of the online image hosting world – informed a frustrated Mint user that their service no longer supports Linux. Thank you for your comments. Please note YouTube supports different systems and we do not support Linux. We apologize for the inconvenience but we have stopped supporting this OS a couple [...]

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Improve Picasa’s Looks In Ubuntu

Google’s photo-management come editor program ’Picasa’ is a wonderful application for sorting and imporiving the appearance of your photos. Shame it looks lame in Ubuntu! Thankfully you can do a few things to improve the look of Picasa, the first of which is sorting out that horrible menu bar. Picasa Menu Bar Fix Shut all instances of Picasa and [...]

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Install Picasa 3.5 In Linux

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Google this week released Picasa 3.5 for Windows and Mac. Sadly no Linux version was offered, a fact Google blamed on the lowly adoption figures they have for Picasa on Linux. I think that’s a shame because Picasa is such an incredible application – its photo editing, its photo management, it’s integrated web services… All [...]

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Top 5 Apps Not Installed With Ubuntu

There are some incredibly useful applications that don’t ship with Ubuntu one for reason or another. Below i list my top 5 of the best applications you might be missing out on! Pitivi – Simple Video Editor (like: iMovie, Windows Movie Maker) Pitivi is a clean, user-friendly video editor along the lines of Microsoft’s Movie [...]

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