
Why I am leaving Smugmug. Hint: it is not just about the money
About seven years ago, a friend of mine who was helping me get into photography recommended that I check out Smugmug, and a wonderful relationship was born. I love, have loved, and will appreciate Smugmug even as I am walking away from the web site. Over the last three years I have shoved some 853,000 […]

ScanCafe: Great Service, Lousy Spam
That’s yours truly on the left in full glory, albeit a bit scared at a photographer’s studio. Why black-and-white, you may ask? Well, there was no color photography back in 19xx (date censured). This formerly black-and-white photo has turned sepia, but that may just be acceptable over 4 decades (oops, I let it slip out), […]

How to Use Picasa on Multiple Computers – The Updated Definitive Guide Part 2: the Solution
This is going to be a fairly detailed how-to guide, so if you are not using Google’s Picasa program, you’ll probably find it boring – and if you are, I strongly suggest you start at Part 1, where we define the problem (Picasa being hopelessly single-user, single-PC focused), why earlier solutions, whether sync-based or network […]

How to Use Picasa on Multiple Computers – The Updated Definitive Guide Part 1: the Problem
My 4-year old how-to guide, Picasa Photo Sync on Multiple Computers has attracted tens of thousands of viewers, and is still quite popular. In fact too popular, thanks to Google. I can’t believe people actually read it today and try to follow the advice therein… it’s and OLD post with outdated information. I’ve long struggled […]