Google’s Picasa
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Picasa 3: Free download from Google
I have been using Google’s Picasa for quite some time, but I didn’t have the newest version (nor did I access Picasaweb) before I upgraded my computer system. This new version allows me to use face recognition so that it can find all the pictures with a certain person in it. As soon as I identified my daughters in several photos I uploaded, I was able to view all the pictures of them. It was very neat to scroll through their development — it shows only a close up of their face in all the pictures. It was also interesting to see how accurate it was. Out of the thousands of pictures I have of those two, it only made a few errors. I had to look at the whole picture to make the determination which daughter is was, too! It identifies who it thinks is in the pictures and then asks you to confirm. What was amazing was that it could identify the baby pictures.
If you haven’t tried this one yet. It is a must!
Create and Share your own Knowlege Base with Knol
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Knol – a unit of knowledge: share what you know, publish your expertise. I ran across this when I was looking up something in Google Help. It sounds real interesting. Some of its uses might be: helpdesk repository, teaching repository, journal, writing a book, nuggets of knowledge… I plan on doing a little experimenting with this. Let me know if you do some, too!
