Motorola DROID 2 Global, Manual

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CHAPTER 18: Taking Photos and Videos
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TIP : You can upload or delete multiple photos at once through the gallery by viewing an album
and pressing the Menu button twice. Gray check marks will appear on each photo or video.
Select multiple items by pressing each one. You can then mass-delete them with the Delete
button, or upload them to Picasa or YouTube using the Share button.
Using Picasa
Picasa is Google’s online and desktop photo software, and it is the default photo service
for unmodified Android phones. It is one of your choices when using the
Share button,
and it provides an easy way to upload a photo for embedding into a web page.
Technically, Picasa and Picasa Web Albums are two separate products, but the
distinction is fuzzy, since you can sync online and desktop photos. Picasa Web Albums
is located on the Web at
http://picasaweb.google.com
.
Think of Picasa Web Albums as Google’s answer to Flickr. You can upload photos and
organize them into albums. Each album can have privacy settings, captions, tags, and
location information (geotags). When using the service in a standard web browser, it also
has facial recognition capabilities. So far this hasn’t been translated into the phone
version, but it’s only a matter of time.
Picasa doesn’t provide unlimited storage. At the time of publication, it provides 1GB of
free storage, and anything beyond that must be purchased from Google on an annual
basis.
There are three basic privacy levels for Picasa:
Public : This is just as it sounds. Your album is visible to anyone and
can be found in search.
Unlisted : Google will give you an obscure URL, which you can
distribute as you see fit. This is not actually private; it’s just hard to
guess. However, anyone with the URL can see your album and pass
that URL on to other people, so it is a poor security setting for
anything you really need to remain private.
Sign-in Required : You specify who can see the album. You enter the
name of specific users’ Google accounts, and only those people can
see your album, and only when they are logged in. You can add and
remove anyone from your “shared with” list.