O wow, my Mac has that ability for about uhm, 3 years?

whats with the M$ Vs Google thing? M$ is all over the place with its product. Not that I am fan of M$, but still come on people, appreciate products for its own merit and the company for its innovations. Picasa web is not a new to us, come on there are 100s of websites out there which lets you upload pictures on to their website. Of course they do not give you 250 MB or high resolution picture options.

Same thing with Google SpreadSheet, have you guys never heard of applixware? It has been around for ages and to beat it all, it works on multiple platform and they even have a internet version for remote office work.

Google is only packaging stuff that everyone would like in a newer fashion and since it is from google, everyone is caught in the hype.

Having said all these things, Google is really good and a better service provider than Yahoo, MSN or Netscape ever did.

Thanks

-GGR
Rajiv G Gunja

Great work google. Because your actions other service providers like yahoo, msn gave us more memory in email services. Great Google keep up the good work. Your calendar, picassa,spreadsheet useful tools that we do no have to pay for and they are excellent. Good on you.

Good on you?

How about Good FOR you. I think you have been visiting otcdrugs.google.com.

Another great service I was just lookinbg for by Google...Very good

I think this is a great option to have.

Unlike Windows, none of this stuff is forced upon us, and we can choose to use Google products or not.

We can choose to use Open Office for spreadsheets if we want, or give Google Spreadsheet a try. We can use Picasa, or not, and the free 250 meg of space, or not.

Options are a GOOD thing, don't you think?

I think Google is pretty cool. Not perfect, but one HECK of a lot better than Microsoft.

"Unlike Windows, none of this stuff is forced upon us, and we can choose to use Google products or not."

Absolutely ridiculous. Give it a rest. What does Windows (Microsoft) have to do with this article? Since when is Windows "forced" upon you? Open your eyes (and your mind).

Unlike Windows, none of this stuff is forced upon us, and we can choose to use Google products or not.

And what exactly does Windows make you use? You can choose not to use any of the operating system. Heck, why not just leave the computer unplugged? That way, they can't even force you to use their login screen.

*rolls eyes*

Google: master of mediocre software. *Yawn*

Picasa is actally VERY good. Have you seen the crap the Adobe try to sell? Picasa is MUCH better, MUCH more intuitive, MUCH lower system resouces, MUCH cheaper.

Free, I would say that is MUCH cheaper.

Let them read your email, see your pictures, see your financial information via Google Spreadsheets, see videos of your kids on Google Video, but wait....there's more.

Google is the devil.

Yes, but they have cool stuff. Devil or not, knowing this, we can then not use PERSONAL stuff.

we can then not use PERSONAL stuff.

Like financial information on Google spreadsheets?

Sorry, JD, Google ain't the devil. The Devil is all those morons willing to give their personal information to just about anyone without so much as dinner and a movie. ;)

ok, I've created a spreadsheet which puts my total value at about £6billion... when a man comes knocking on my door asking for donations then I'll let everyone know you were right all along ;)

And Microsoft and Yahoo! don't provide similar services? If Google provided an OS, you'd probably say to stay away from it because it might spy on you and stuff, while at the same time ignoring the equal risk with Windows or Mac OS X. Why do you trust Microsoft/Yahoo!/Apple/whomever more than Google when Google's about the only one that has shown strong resistance to third party (including government) information requests and there is no evidence that they have abused their information? If it reached the point where their products were forced on people without the availability of alternatives with relatively easy transition, you might have an argument. But so far, everything is optional with reasonable alternatives and there aren't huge transition barriers impacting reasonable productivity and interoperation like you have with Windows.

I can answer that, 2 words.

Track record. Google hasn't been around long enough to show that can overcome the odds.

yahoo hasn't compromised my info, or been accussed of it. Google has..

I trust Yahoo until they show me they can't be trusted. I set spam filter on Yahoo. Email is gone. Same thing in google, I still get gobs of spam. I am tired of deleting junk mail. If I click spam, it shouldn't EVER come back. Yahoo, I get MAYBE 5 spam emails a week. Maybe. They go direct to trash.

Google, I can't get it to work right, so therefore it becomes the trash heap.

Picasa, suecasa.

Looks sweet, man I love Google. I don't care if they have every bit of info on me, I have NOTHING to hide. Christ is my Savior!

Wow! What a powerful witness. Way to go BMX!

hahaha, right. that attitude might get you into real big trouble one day. regardless if you do or dont.

I've been waiting for something like this from Google. All those folks out there that are worried about Google hosting your personal information do have a point, though. I mean, if you are silly enough to establish a password of "12345" just about anyone can get into your account and steal your life away.

It seems to me lately that people are allowing computers to replace their intelligence, rather than augment it and make their daily lives that much easier. A computer is only "smart" enough to do what you have programmed it to do.

If I buy a new computer today and connect it to the Internet without installing even the most basic of safeguards, this PC will be taken over by an attack within 10 minutes.

The same goes with putting your personal info online. (Myspace anyone?) With just a few basic pieces of info, users on Myspace can be located just based on casual bits and pieces of info they share in everyday conversation with users they think they've befriended online.

Cut the BS here. Google is no more "the devil" than Myspace or any other massively popular destination online.

Zactly.

The Devil isn't in the Services, but in the morons that use them unintelligently.

Google just takes some great ideas and services that would otherwise be unknown to the general web-surfing public and makes them easier to use. So long as you follow the instructions and don't go off on some wild tangent uploading pics of you and your SO doing some wild things on the beach, etc., you should be fine.

Oops. Gotta go delete some stuff, then. ;)