On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:48:45 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

OK so, being the groups "Luddite" I will confess I'm a simple man. I
have no need to have the latest of the latest gadgets with all the
bells and whistles. My computer is about 10 years old and takes up a
lot of room. maybe I ought to get a lap top.. oops sorry. "Notebook"
is the new catch phrase I assume.

My cell phone is about 4 years old, it's a Motorola v-197, it's been
faithful, but it's bare bones, no camera, hard to surf the 'net with
it. I can get the news from the NYT or USA TODAY and that's about it.
and it takes for ever to load. And I ahve to watch my time or I go
over the 'net limit. The filthy thing isn't even set up for me to send
a text, but that's ok, I dont' know how to send one in my life
depended on it. I dont' have a news reader and am not either
sophisticated to use one and really don't have the desire to find out
how. I access this, and other USENET boards via Google groups and
that's satisfactory to me. It's as primitive as you can get but it
does the job.

I could go on about my old-fashioned and sometimes backward ways but
what's the point. You all get the picture.

HOWEVER! just recently, I opened up a Google PICASA 3.8 account and
transferred a bunch of pictures on it. OK so that's cool, NOW comes
the tricky part.

I've transferred over a gob of pics and now I find I dont' have the
ability to post an album etc. and I've found very little online
support to do so, or at least support that I can understand easily.

I have some boat pics I'd like to share with you all, but until I can
figgah it out, they'll stay on the storage disk.

Oh well, I'll get it eventually I suppose but if anyone has any decent
suggestions (besides light fire to my hard drive!) I'm up for ideas.

Tim

You should My Photos which is your online site. You can designate
which album you want to upload pictures to within your computer's
Picasa application.

There's a setting that lets you determine how you're going to share
the album, whether it's (1) open season (anyone can see 'em), (2)
using a URL address that contains a passcode and lets Picasa know that
whomever is using that address has been given permission, or (3) you
want no one to see them.

I use the second option and send or post the URL for the album.