Curiously, after reading about the Picasa upgrade, a related article about photo management software popped up in Google Reader, courtesy of Robert Scoble’s excellent link blog. Robert Scoble had published a couple of podcasts featuring a product demo and an interview with Gibu Thomas, CEO of Sharpcast. Sharpcast is yet another photo management software tool and appears to offer a number of advantages over Picasa: Unlimited free storage Automatic synchronisation between PC and Web albums Original images are preserved The unlimited storage seems too good to be true and is very useful because, at some point in the near future, I am likely to exceed Picasa’s storage limit unless Google follow suit. Secondly, if I ever edit an image or perform any housekeeping, I will have to manually replicate those changes to Picasa Web Albums. As I am very lazy, that is unlikely to happen. ...

Google have increased the amount of free storage to 1GB (previously 250MB) available at Picasa Web Albums. This means I can now backup all of my photos comfortably (854MB) in one place. If you have lots of photos of your cat, $500 upgrades the capacity to 250GB.

Patrick Stuebing from Leipzig (near Germany) has a few issues A curious red object growing out of his head A penchant for redheads Unhealthy obsession with Catherine Tate Unemployed burglar locksmith Father of four young children The mother of these children is his, err, sister. And I thought I had problems.

I celebrated my recent promotion (to BMI Silver) by ordering a brand new Dell computer running Windows Vista (Premium) and proudly attaching the tag to my suitcase. I then spent hours ensuring I had secured the cheapest price possible and placed the order at 23:12 on Sunday night. Yesterday afternoon, I received a call from Dell confirming delivery for Thursday (at an unspecified time somewhere in a 10 hour window between 08:00 and 18:00). ...

Like most people, I store information in many different places. Lots of data is stored directly on my work laptop while yet more data is stored on my computer at home. Mail folders Address book Text files Corporate blogs Presentations Word documents Intranet resources Whitepapers Web history RSS feeds Photos Music Even more data is stored on external servers Gmail Blinklist Web site, blogs and mySQL databases at Bluehost Post-it on fridge Mobile phone Palm PDA My head (last resort) I first used Google Desktop a couple of years ago when it was first launched. Back then, the ongoing indexing process seemed to add a unreasonable load on my laptop, so I decided to uninstall the program and revert to old-fashioned searching in Windows Explorer and Outlook (and now Thunderbird). ...