I sure hope they don't make Picasa a cloud-only program. The developers
might be interested in how I'm using Picasa, so I'll give a brief summary,
as I'm pushing it's limits in one particular way:
I'm a hurricane researcher and am working with an image library of 60,000
satellite images (~13 GB) of approximately 180 Atlantic hurricanes over the
past 15 years. I sorted the images chronologically and stored in a
hierarchical directory structure by storm year and storm name. Really basic
stuff. There are between 100 and 700 images per storm, with each image taken
every 15 or 30 minutes. So I use Picasa to browse through the satellite
imagery for a particular storm - I was doing subjective image analysis to
determine various baseline times for eye formation - so using Picasa, I just
"animate on the fly" using the forward and back arrow keys. It works
fantastic - on an $8000 dual quadcore Xeon HP linux workstation with lots of
memory (16 GB?) running off of a local disk. I tried to do this on my home
computer (a dual core 2.2 GHz intel-PC with 3 GB memory running Windows and
Picasa 3.6) and the animation is rather jumpy and not nearly as fast - kind
of unsatisfactory actually. Obviously, a cloud-based solution would be
horrible for this type of use. Anyway, I just thought some might find this
interesting. Anything that decreases the capacity to smoothly loop rapidly
through all the images in a folder would be detrimental to uses like this.
Cheers,
Jonathan
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miguel
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 3:54 PM
To: Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux
Subject: Re: Linux Support
That would be quite a stupid thing to do, If only with Google Chrome,
doable, but really dangerous (to not go the same path as microsoft has
gone before)
@Patrick
I am also runnign 3.6, but i had to work it out myself, since there is
NO OFFICIAL release by google. And furthermore, Places / Geotagging
and Backup is not working... Things that Google would have taken care
of if they would make an official release for linux...
On Feb 23, 7:09 pm, Alan Cummings <[email protected]> wrote:
> Miguel wrote:
> > So, as you can read in this article (http://www.informationweek.com/
> > news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220100440) it is
> > supposed that Picasa si not well adopted under Linux and this should
> > be the reason for discontinuation.
>
> >>SNIP<<
>
> I have a feeling that by the time version 4 comes out it will be a "cloud"
> version, or maybe a Chrome browser plugin. After all I would thing they
> would want some sort of version to run on Chrome OS.
>
> --
> Alan.
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