Tag: cloud
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On Traditional Apps and Modern Self-Hosting
Reading Time: 2 minutesMany years ago we took photos and we had to wait for the roll to be developed and when it was developed we either kept our photos in the sleeve with the negatives, or we put them in photo albums. Later we took digital photos and we downloaded them to our computers…
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The End of ‘Clouded’ Judgement
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf I was up to mischief I would say that some people, especially Apple users, suffer from clouded judgement. Of course I mean this as a pun. If you use Android devices, or Windows machines, or Linux, you can purchase a microSD card and within seconds have one or even two terabytes…
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On Local Photo Management and the Command Line
Reading Time: 5 minutesPicasa and iPhoto Picasa and iPhoto were great apps. Both were free. Both allowed you to manage your photos locally and both allowed you to take pictures with photo cameras, or your phone, and sync them then you got home. Over time our phones synced via the cloud to these apps. We…
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Immich and Picasa – Past and Future
Reading Time: 3 minutesThose of us that are geeky, and old enough, will remember when apps were local and we saved data to internal and external hard drives. We would take photos with a camera, or a phone, and once we got home we would download them to our computer, using apps like Picasa and…
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Nice Clouds on a Windy Day
Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes you drive home on the scooter and you look up at the sky and you think “When I get out of this village I’m going to stop by the side of the road and I’m going to take a picture of the clouds because they’re photogenic. The reason for them being…