Show You to the World with PICASA!

What is Picasa?

Picasa is a free Google tool that´s help you to view, to manage, ogarnize and share digitals photos and images files, originally created by Lifescape, Inc. but bought in 2004 by Google Inc. which developed it as a freeware. Picasa is a word formed from two words of a Spanish painter named Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa (Spanish for "my house") and "pic" for pictures (personalized art). The software of Picasa (that you download, install and run on your PC) helps you to locate, and organize edit and add effects to your photos stored on your computer. The Picasa Web, inside of your browser lets manage photos through the Picasa Web Album a photo sharing website, where you can store and share photos online. To download the application go to www.picasa.google.com. To use your Picasa Web Album and share with friends family go to www.picasaweb.google.com, and use your Google account to sign in.

Picasa Features: The Picasa application, supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, Mac OS X too and has Google+ integration for users of that service, so you can upload and share your photos on Google+ , Tag your Google+ friends and share pictures of them. For organizing photos, Picasa has file importing, tracking features, as facial recognition, and collections. Picasa offers other several basic photo editing functions, including color enhancement, red eye reduction, cropping, adding text to image, slide shows, printing, and image timelines.

The Picasa Web Albums (PWA) allows users with accounts at Google to store and share 1 GB of large photos for free. However, users can also rent additional storage space (shared between Google services such as Gmail, Google Drive and Picasa Web Albums) from 25 GB to 16 TB. PWA uses an "unlisted number" approach for URLs for private photo albums. This feature enables a user to email a private album's URL to anyone, and the recipient can view the album without having to create a user account. This is done via an "authentication key" that must be appended to the URL for the album to be shown. The Picasa Help files say that private albums are not searchable by anyone except the user. To conclude, another visibility option named "sign-in required to view" is available too. This makes the album viewable only to those with whom the album is explicitly shared.

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About Google Maps

Visualize your area with GOOGLE MAPS

Google Maps (formerly Google Local) is a web mapping service application and technology launched in February 2005, provided by Google. it´s a powerful mapping technology and local business information -- including business locations, street maps, contact information, and driving directions. Experience it yourself at www.maps.google.com

GOOGLE MAPS Features:

Satellite View- View a satellite image of your desired location that you can zoom and pan. Directions- Get the direction of transportation on the area including walking (Find the easiest way from A to B by foot), bicycling (Get pedal-by-pedal bicycling directions that indicate bike trails, bike lanes and bike-friendly roads), and driving (Get turn-by-turn directions to guide your way and find the best route anywhere on the road). Street View- View and navigate within street-level imagery. Earth view- To view 3D imagery and terrain from Google Earth on Maps that you can zoom, pan, and tilt. Integrated business search results- Find business locations and contact information all in one location, integrated on the map. Google Latitude- is a feature that lets users share their physical locations with other people. This service is based on Google Maps, specifically on mobile devices. Photo Tours- Experience landmarks from all around the world with 3D photo tours showing the best views of landmarks Live Traffic- See current conditions, estimated travel times and find alternate routes around traffic.

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EXPLORE THE CHROME BROWSER

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser designed and developed by Google, Inc. is one of the newer additions in the competitive Internet browsing market. It´s a modern platform for web pages and applications. The browser was first publicly released for Microsoft Windows (XP and later versions) on September 2, 2008, officially a beta version, and later a stable public release on December 11, 2008. In December 2009, Google released beta versions of Chrome for OS X and Linux. Google Chrome 5.0, announced on May 25, 2010, was the first stable release to support all three platforms.

By design Google Chrome is very simplistic in its appearance, the browser is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go. It was reported by StatCounter, a web analytics company, that for the single day of Sunday, March 18, 2012 Chrome was the most used web browser in the world for the first time. You can download Google Chrome and try it yourself at www.google.com/chrome. Enjoy!

Google chrome features

This modern platform for web pages has a lot of great features, in fact it´s simple, fast, and secure. let consider some of his abilities.

Speed: It's quick to start up from your desktop, it is fast to run web applications, to search, navigate, and to load web pages.
Simplicity: Chrome is designed to be as simple as possible, for that reason in Chrome it´s easy to search and navigate, It autocompletes as you type, offers suggestions, and can even load results instantly. what is more it starts where you left off.
Security: Chrome is designed to keep you safer and more secure on the web with built-in malware and phishing protection, it will show you a warning message before you visit a site that is suspected of containing malware or phishing.
Privacy: Chrome puts you in control of your private information while helping protect the information you share when you’re online. The Privacy mode called Incognito mode prevents the browser from permanently storing any history information or cookies from the websites visited. Incognito mode is similar to the private browsing feature in other web browsers.
Plugins: Chrome supports plug-ins with the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI), and for example Adobe Flash Player.
Customization: It´s easy to customize Chrome and make it yours, just go to settings and add apps, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Store.
Signing In: Signing in to Chrome help you to ta take the web with you, because anything you update on one device instantly updates everywhere else, and your Chrome stuff is safe in case anything happens to your computer. Signing in to Chrome brings your bookmarks, history, and other settings to all your computers.
Chrome Web Store: allows users to install web applications as extensions to the browser, although most of these function simply as links to popular web pages or games.

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About YOUTUBE

About YOUTUBE

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees (Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim) in February 2005, on which billions of people can upload, view and share videos. Youtube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small. Then, Hundreds of millions of videos are being watched each day on YouTube. In fact, every minute, 72 hours of video are uploaded.

In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.

Sign up for YOUTUBE To sign up just visit http://www.youtube.com, click Sign in in the top-right corner, and enter your Google Account login information, if you already have a Google Account. Using your Google Account, you can log into YouTube and access many features. If you don´t have a Google Account click this link www.accounts.google.com to set it up and click Sign up in the top-right corner.

Some amazing YOUTUBE Features

Uploading.. All YouTube users can upload videos up to 15 minutes each in duration. Users who have a good track record of complying with the site's Community Guidelines may be offered the ability to upload videos up to 12 hours in length, which requires verifying the account, normally through a mobile phone. Playlists. If you have a series of videos you want to show somebody in a particular order, you can create a playlist and link or embed to it. It is useful if you had a series of modular videos that different groups of users needed to see a different combination of, you could use a series of playlists tailored to different groups. Charts. It is essentially a chart system that shows videos depending on the amount of views, ratings, comments etc that they get and you can choose to view it by day, week, month or by all time. Editor. With this feature you can edit all your videos online adding effects, transitions and cropping your videos as needed on your timeline. Annotations. Allow you to create clickable links within videos that can link to playlists, channels, videos or to subscribe. Watch Later. This feature help you to watch Youtube videos at a later date by simply clicking the little + symbol on videos.
Here is a creative asset that will help me to promote my content on and off YouTube.I place my preferred button on GOOGITECHIE, click on it and you you will be directed to my YouTube channel.

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Get to know Google+

Introduction of Google Plus.

Google+ (sometimes written as Google Plus, and sometimes abbreviated as G+) is a multilingual social networking and identity service launched on June 28, 2011. This site was created by Google Inc. It has a total of 500 million registered users (December 2012). On this social network you can create a personal profile, connect with others who create a Google Plus profile, share multimedia links and engage with other users.

How to sign up a Google+ account?

To sign up, all you need to do is click now this link plus.google.com and type in some basic information about yourself. After clicking “Join”,Google Plus will suggest some from friends who are already on Google Plus to add to your network, or to your “circles.”

Some great features of Google Plus

"Circles" enable users to organize people into groups for sharing across various Google products and services. "Hangouts" are places used to facilitate group video chat. "Games" is a social gaming. "What's hot" Stream, is a stream showing what Google+ users are currently excited about. Google+ Pages, it allows entities to set up profiles or pages. Google+ Badges are sidebar widgets which embed "Add to Circles" buttons and drop-down lists into off-site websites and blogs. Google+ Events: allows users to add events, invite people, and then share photos and media in real-time from the event. Google+ Communities: allow users to create ongoing conversations about particular topics.

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Things you need to know about Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in January 1996, while both attended Stanford University.This company provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies. Advertising revenues from AdWords generate almost all of the company's profits. In January of 2013, Google announced it had earned $50 billion in annual revenue for the year of 2012. This marked the first time Google had reached this feat, topping their 2011 total of $38 billion.
Google Products:
Web Search: Search billions of web pages
Google Chrome: A browser built for speed, simplicity and securityYouTube
YouTube: A free video-hosting website that allows members to store and serve video content.
Gmail: A supported email service provided by Google.
Mobile: Get Google products on your mobile phone
Image Search: Search for images on the web
News: Search thousands of news stories
Drive: Create, share and keep all your stuff in one place
Translate: Instantly translate text, web pages, and files between over 50 languages
Groups: Create mailing lists and discussion groups
Blog Search: Find blogs on your favorite topics
Scholar: Search scholarly papers
Alerts: Get email updates on the topics of your choice
Code: Developer tools, APIs and resources

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What is Gmail?

WHAT IS Gmail? Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail, as well as via POP3 or IMAP4 protocols. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though still in beta status at that time. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite. HOW TO CREATE A Gmail ADDRESS? To create a new Gmail address go to: https://mail.google.com, and clicking the red Create an account button on the top-right corner of any Google sign-in page. You can use your Google Account with all Google products, so once you create an account -- regardless of whether you do it through the Account Creation page or through a specific product’s sign-in page -- you can use that username and password with any Google product. Reference Google support.

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What is Googitechie?

Googitechie is a group of Techies who are trained in the skills and techniques related to technologies. We are here to provide technical support for those who need help. so every time you need us consult please our blog at: www.googitechie.blogspot.com. Do you want more info? Learn more about Googitechie by watching this short video description below!

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