Tag: World Wide Web

Picasa Mac Uploader and iPhoto Exporter Error

Over on the Official Google Blog there is an announcement that the Picasa and Mac development teams have released software that allows easier uploading of photos to the Picasa Web Albums site. The software, Picasa Web Albums Exporter for iPhoto and Picasa Web Albums Uploader, is delivered as one download. The first is a stand alone uploader where the user can simple drag and drop a photo to upload to the Picasa web site. The other is a plug-in for Apple's iPhoto photo management software that allows the user to export any photo to Picasa web albums. I am sure the software is great but I have been unable to get it working. I get some strange error message: "Sign-In failed (network error)". Turning off the OS-X firewall did not help and I could find not posting on the Picasa Google Group.

Update:

Turns out the culprit was the cerficate system in the Keychain Access application. For some reason OS-X does not trust the google.com's cert and with OCSP and CRL turnes on the system would fail. Turned off OCSP and CRL and now the Picasa Web Albums Exporter for iPhoto works.

Web 2.0 again

After discovering the ITRedux web site I decided to try out a few of the apps recommended on the site. I liked iRows and was quite impressed with it especially when I found out it could handle chart and graphs! The features are fairly basic but useable. One problem for me was when I imported Excel work books with multiple sheets and graphs. iRows chose to break the worksheets out into multiple workbooks and I lost the linkage between the sheets. I have not fully tested Zohosheet.

I had already tested Writely, which I like a lot, so I tested Zohowriter. I had no problem importing existing Word documents but I feel that Writely does a better job of emulating a real word processor.

I also tested Thumbtack, an online presentation system. There is no current ability to import Powerpoint slides. Slides must be created from scratch and there is not way to include graphs from a spreadsheet although one can import images.

I look forward to using these tools on a daily basis and see what works and what does not.