Free Gmail accounts & 250MB online album space
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:37 pm
We have another Gmail invite thread around here somewhere, but I thought this warranted a new thread.
I have 92 Gmail invites left to give out, so if you'd like a Gmail account, PM me, and I'll send you an invite.
For anyone who doesn't know, Gmail is google email. You get 2.7+ gigabytes of storage space, a clean web-based interface, and the google search engine for your email.
Now on to the real point of this post. Google has recently begun to offer Picasa Web Albums to Gmail account holders. These albums come with 250MB of storage space. Anyone with a Gmail account can activate an album. I have three albums for a total of 750MB of space because I signed up with three Gmail accounts. You can upload photos from the web-based interface, but the coolest part comes in the next paragraph.
Google has a free photo organizer program called Picasa. I've used this program for several months now, and like it better than any other I've used, mainly because of it's simplicity. The newest version of Picasa intergrates directly with Google's new Picasa Web Albums. You can activate your album, upload pics, and resize them automatically, all from within Picasa. Picasa also has the standard image editing/touch-up options as well as the ability to create movies of pictures, picture CD's, screensavers, and emailing resized pictures from within the program. You'll still need a Gmail account, because Picasa will need to log into your account to email pictures and upload to your web album.
I have 92 Gmail invites left to give out, so if you'd like a Gmail account, PM me, and I'll send you an invite.
For anyone who doesn't know, Gmail is google email. You get 2.7+ gigabytes of storage space, a clean web-based interface, and the google search engine for your email.
Now on to the real point of this post. Google has recently begun to offer Picasa Web Albums to Gmail account holders. These albums come with 250MB of storage space. Anyone with a Gmail account can activate an album. I have three albums for a total of 750MB of space because I signed up with three Gmail accounts. You can upload photos from the web-based interface, but the coolest part comes in the next paragraph.
Google has a free photo organizer program called Picasa. I've used this program for several months now, and like it better than any other I've used, mainly because of it's simplicity. The newest version of Picasa intergrates directly with Google's new Picasa Web Albums. You can activate your album, upload pics, and resize them automatically, all from within Picasa. Picasa also has the standard image editing/touch-up options as well as the ability to create movies of pictures, picture CD's, screensavers, and emailing resized pictures from within the program. You'll still need a Gmail account, because Picasa will need to log into your account to email pictures and upload to your web album.