Wendie’s Japan Trip

My friend Wendie is back from Japan. I suggested she use Picasa to download and ‘improve’ her photos and Picasaweb to display them to her friends.

My friend Wendie is back from Japan. I suggested she use Picasa to download and ‘improve’ her photos and Picasaweb to display them to her friends. They’re both products from the “Google Boys.” They make their money if you have your photos professionally printed and use them as the middleman.

When she saw how all of this worked, and how easy it would be to pass the photos to her friends and family, she was pretty happy.

The truth is, there are lots of these hidden gems on the Internet – little out-of-the-way places that perform amazing time saving or value adding work, usually with no cost to you.

My dad, who teaches computing to lots of the seniors at his condo complex, sees this kind of result all the time. It’s part of the reason he’s a minor deity in Palm Beach County.

Here is the result of Wendie’s work.

2 thoughts on “Wendie’s Japan Trip”

  1. Geoff–please thank your friend, Wendie for sharing her photos…. I totally enjoyed them! I would normally think of Japan as polluted, overcrowded cities. This was a welcome change!!! Loved the “no scribbling” sign…Too funny… Evi

  2. Wow, what great photos. Such memories … between this slideshow and reading the stories of the Red Sox in Japan, I’m ready to get back on a plane *now*.

    The photos of the fish market are particularly interesting, as I didn’t figure out until an hour before we were scheduled to leave Tokyo that we’d been staying just two subway stops away from there. And I would’ve had time to go do the early-morning sushi thing, too. Argh!!

    I discovered Picasa when I went looking for a free way to put my Japan photos online for my family and friends to see. Now I use it for everything … it’s a really great tool.

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