I uploaded over hundred pics on Picasa, and it arranged those pics according to the time and date stamp. Wonder how? After pondering on it for 30 seconds, I figured out that it wasn't really the time-stamp, it was the pic number that Picasa could pick-up and respond to. That was easy, and common-sense! But a lot of picture sharing sites and uploaders overlook this aspect. As a bonus, it also rotated my misaligned pics by 90 degree so as to 'straighten' them! I guess it also has a face-recognition system in place. I was quite impressed. So, Picasa did save me some of my precious time, and a lot of my efforts.
Facebook failed to recognize the sequence of the pics or rotate the misaligned ones by 90 degree, whereas Orkut did rotate my pics but couldn't arrange them. So I was required to do a bit of re-re-ordering after uploading the pics. But then again, its not fair to compare Facebook or Orkut with Picasa, which exclusively is a software for uploading and sharing pics.
A software is supposed to make our life easy by automating a set of pre-defined tasks. (That's another thing that sometimes it complicates our life further when we spend most of our time figuring out what to do with the software itself)! I wonder if we should ask ourselves if that is software for dummies, or has the advent of softwares made us dummies!
- Namrta R
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