Category Archives: Photography

iPad Camera Connection Kit – Will It Work On Other iDevices?

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The Apple site lists some very nice iPad accessories. I think the keyboard dock and the multi functional case are beautiful. But what about the iPad Camera Connection Kit? I was wondering whether this will work on an iPod or iPhone as well. It would be very nice if it is possible to use your iDevice as an extra photo backup during holidays.

In the past they had a camera connector which was some sort of USB port to attach your camera to your iPod. This was very slow and thus a huge battery drain. Perhaps with this new accessory Apple might have sorted it out. We will probably just have to wait and see.

If it will work I just hope they will create a CompactFlash version as well ;-)

Improve Picasa face recognition performance

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A few weeks ago I wrote about the performance of Picasa face recognition. It is a great new feature, but in combination with my library it is very slow!

I tried to change the face recognition slider settings in the options menu, but to no avail. Yesterday I searched on the Internet and on a forum someone suggested to disable the ” enable suggestions” checkbox.

I disabled it and since then Picasa is much faster, more snappy. I let my computer run last night and the amount of scanned items went from 16% to 30%!

Furthermore, it still provides me with suggestions. I do not really understand what this checkbox is supposed to do. But I can conclude that it positively improves performance!

Picasa face recognition

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How long is Picasa 3.5 with face recognition available for download? A few weeks? I downloaded it the minute I read about it.

Now since then I have been running Picasa whenever my PC was on. I even let it run a few nights, just for the scanning for the face recognition.

It currently has only scanned 14% of my library… Ok, my library contains about 124.000 photographs but still. Is there some way to tweak this face recognition apart from the two sliders in the options menu?