Install / Setup
1. Google account
If you don’t currently use gmail, sign up. I don’t care if you use the email, but it
comes with picasa web and a good amount of space to backup to. So go to www.gmail.com
and sign up for an account.
2. Dropbox ( optional, but
my option for photo sharing between phone/personal computers )
Go to www.dropbox.com
and sign up. Fill in all the info, setup
a password, etc.
Download and install it onto your computer(that you want to
store pictures on). When you install
you’ll need to use the same info you signed up on their website with. It’ll create a folder on your computer, and
everything you put in that folder will be synced with their servers and
anywhere you have dropbox.
3. Dropbox on your phone(
optional – again recommended )
Install onto your phone from your app store.
Setup option to sync photos wirelessly. At this point you can either let it sync
up(it’s a little annoying cause if it goes to sleep it stops syncing), or you turn on background uploading. It’ll kick off pictures every so often and
will get it done for you when you’re on a wireless network. I wouldn’t turn it on for Cellular data: video’s
can be big.
Go to download picasa and install on your box. I would stick with the standard install
options. Let it save the files to the
normal spots on your computer.
Whenever you see a screen like this, always look at the
options:
I typically turn off anything adding to my browser, and in
my case the quick launch bar as well(sorry, my screen shot left everything
selected).
Let it scan your computer.
That way you don’t have to search things down later.
Unless you have another viewer, I like their photo viewer,
so I’d leave this selected.
Create a folder under dropbox for photo sharing called
DropboxPhotos.
Next under Picasa, go to File -> Add Folder, and choose
this folder. Make sure to select the Scan Always option.
Do the same for Camera Uploads, that’s where pictures show
up from your phone.
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