Picasa Now Offering Virtually Unlimited Storage, Brings Google+ Tagging

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:12 pm

http://lifehacker.com/5817483/picasa-no ... 2B-tagging

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:19 pm

So how to you get Google +?

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:18 pm

nice...this should be good for competition and get other sites to follow with upping storage limits. this won't help me much due to resolution restrictions, but for casual use, it's fantastic.

While Picasa Web Albums offers 1GB of free storage for photos and videos, files under certain size limits won't count towards this free storage limit. If you're a Google+ user, photos up to 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won't eat up your storage space. For non-Google+ users, the photo size limit is smaller: 800 x 800 pixels (videos are also under 15 minutes).

If you reach your storage limit and upload images larger than these dimensions to Picasa Web Albums, however, Google will automatically resize them for you so they won't count towards your free storage limit—so it's like getting unlimited storage after all.

NubyCanuby_OFC · Post by **NubyCanuby_OFC** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:12 pm

b-man1 wrote:nice...this should be good for competition and get other sites to follow with upping storage limits. this won't help me much due to resolution restrictions, but for casual use, it's fantastic.

They support a maximum photo size of 20 megabytes withing the 1 gigabyte storage limit.

darcy · Post by **darcy** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 8:57 pm

Executioner wrote:So how to you get Google +?

you have to be invited by someone already on it,,; wish i knew someone who was,,
apparently the window to get in on Google+ was very short,,

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:15 am

I had an invite from Google, but was too busy to mess with it. Now it's gone

I am very interested in how all this turns out though (Google+ & Picasa).

darcy · Post by **darcy** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:18 pm

if you go here, ~ https://plus.google.com/up/start/?sw=1&type=st

and enter your info { first name/Gmail addy }, you will be notified when they are ready to invite more peeps.
{ pretty much the same as they did w/Gmail,, }

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:28 pm

Thanks for that darcy.

darcy · Post by **darcy** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:56 pm

cheers, normalicy : )
give a shout if u ever get something, ~ i will do the same, tho i reckon it will be a while,,

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:46 pm

Will do.