thechrisproject photography

A coworker today asked me today what happens if one, in firefox, goes to the address bar and types in “gmail” and then hits “control+enter”. It goes to gmail, right? I tested it. It did. I went to his computer and he tested it. It worked.

“Weird, a second ago it was going here,” and he showed me the page he had seen. It was a google search page for “cwoo52″ with “keyword:cwoo52″ in the address bar of firefox. I chalked it up to weirdness and forgot about it. Then it just happened to me. There were no google hits for “cwoo52″. It’s a tad odd.

UPDATE: Google is now returning some hits for “cwoo52″:

This person got something similar (and ripped off my blog look)

A forum post about it.

So, yeah, that doesn’t help me figure it out at all, but at least we’re not crazy.

I posted a while ago about how much I disliked using the Hello picture sending messaging program to post pictures to blogger from Picasa. I got an email from the Picasa crew the other day detailing some updates to the software and one of them was… wait for it…

The new “BlogThis!” button allows you to post one photo at a time directly to the Blogger.com web editor without going through the Hello software.

There also seems to be some improved RAW file handling and importing of EXIF information. The RAW file handling worked on and off for me before. I would have a lot of thumbnails that just looked like garbage but the full size pics looked fine, or vice versa. The EXIF is exciting too. My camera records all sorts of information about each shot that I take: aperature, shutter speed, focal length, flash type, film speed, etc. Now I can see that info in Picasa. This will also allow me to totally abandon Canon’s crappy software that came with my camera.

RAW and EXIF are both greate improvements. Picasa seems to have fixed a few of my biggest problems with their software. And it’s free! Google really does seem to know how to pick ‘em.