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Memeo Share

Alex — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:44:20 +0000

Memeo Share is a new Video and Photo Sharing Tool from Memeo themselves. It enables you to upload the videos and photos for free to share with friends and family all over the world. They don’t even need to have a Memeo Account to view them! It’s simple to use and a good way to share your experiences. All you need to do it download the program, create a Memeo Account and then you’re ready to start sharing.

It is designed so that people, once signed up, will be able to share and download all your photos. So if you have close family and friends abroad it is an easy way to share them so they can download them as well! Saves emailing them all!

When we gave Memeo a try we noticed a few problematic areas. For example, the general photo/video organisation isn’t that great on some screens, so you have to scroll each time to view the whole image.

We would personally prefer to use Google Picasa because of this but it is still a good tool and worth a look if you’re just interested in sharing!

New Software Page On Brandstar.co.uk!

Alex — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:41:44 +0000

Brandstar have recently released a brand new Software page! The software page attempts to tackle the problem of not knowing which software is worth buying and downloading. After all, there are so many options to choose from! It covers a variety of both free and commercial products in the genres of Computer Security, Media, Office Applications and System Tools.

It’s worth checking out!

Share your photos online!

Alex — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:36:58 +0000

Google has created an incredibly easy way to share photos with people on the web. It’s called Picasa. Picasa is a great free download which helps you to organise photos on your computer, share photos via email and the web etc and to edit/add effect to your photos with just a couple of clicks. In this review we will tell you a little bit about Picasa and show you some basic features of the program.

Before you download Picasa for free you must you need to create a Google and Picasa account which will allow you to share your photos on the internet. Both Google and Picasa accounts are compltely free. If you already have a googlemail or gmail account then you don’t need to create a new Google account, just a Picasa one. Click here for a Google account. Then for a Picasa account click here. You need a Google account to use Picasa Web Album.

Once this is done you need to download Picasa for free and then install it.

Then you need to upload your pictures to Picasa by selecting where you wish for them to be uploaded from. If you have some pictures on a digital camera that you wish to upload to your computer follow the instructions on the pctoolbox.co.uk tutorial named ‘Downloading Pictures from Your Digital Camera On An XP Machine‘.

How to add Pictures to the Web:

Open Picasa by double clicking on the Picasa Icon on your Desktop.

Click either on the folder or the picture you wish to upload. (Click for bigger image)

Then click ‘Web Album’

Eventually the below window will appear. Firstly choose if you are going to create a new album or add to one you’ve previously used. Then give the album a name and if you wish to give the album a description etc. You will need to decide your upload speed. We recommend you choose the ‘Medium Size’ upload setting. Finally decide whether you want anybody to be able to view your pictures or if you only want selected people to be able to view them. Once this is done click ‘OK’.

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Note: The pictures may take a while to upload, depending on the amount/size of the pictures being uploaded.

How to access pictures/albums on the Internet:
To access the pictures on the net login to Picasa by clicking here. Or to view one of your public albums on the net type this address adding your user name at the end : picasaweb.google.com/ For Example: picasaweb.google.com/Graham.Brandstar

Tell us what you think of Picasa by leaving a comment below!