Arrggh!! Which one?! Google+, Picasa, Picasa Tool, Picasa Web Albums, Google Drive, Google Photos

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Well I'm getting confused. I want the quickest, easiest way to be able to select a bunch of photos on my smart phone, upload them to my google account somewhere, and grab the links for each picture so I can use the links for say ebay/forums whatever. I want the pictures so people cannot view any other pictures or albums. i.e. They only have the garbled link per picture.

I used to use a link on google called "photos" for this. Am I right in thinking this is now google+? Google drive has no sharing options that I can see and looks more like a backup type thing. Google+ annoys me. I just used some instant upload feature and got some randomers on the internet commenting on my private photos as it made them public. Wtf? Google+ seems to default them to some posts area where you have to remove them elsewhere each time to inherit any permissions on any albums you have set. Google+ has no way of sharing via link so you cannot obtain the link! So then I find out you can access the same photos in your google+ using Picasa web albums (or have I just uploaded them to all different places?) which DOES have a method to share via link and seems better layed out for sharing. But I also have something on my phone called "Picasa" and "Picasa Tool".

For the love of god help a noob out. Which is what? Is it all one and the same owned by google just to confuse me?
 
Picasa is what you are after Picasa Web Albums is the same thing. Picasa Tool is an app that allows you to upload to Picasa and, IIRC, is not a Google app anyway but works fine.

Log into Picasa and make a new Album with the "Limited" tag (Private, Limited and Public are available). This means people can only see the image if they have the link. The link is all random crap so it won't be guessed. You use the link for each image to add pics to forums etc e.g.

baby.jpg



** right click and view the address of the image
 
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google+'s instant upload album should be private, i know mine is. I dont use it for sharing photos but it is great for backing it all up from the phone without having to think about it lol
 
Google seem to be trying to kill picasa web albums and force people into using Google+ which in my opinion is much worse - you can't download an entire album in one go which is a big downside for me.
 
james.miller said:
google+'s instant upload album should be private, i know mine is. I dont use it for sharing photos but it is great for backing it all up from the phone without having to think about it lol
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I prefer to use a mix of Syncme Wireless and Wuala to do my backing up and sycning.

Syncme Wireless will sync my phone with my PC nightly at a set time which then forces Wuala to update from PC to encrypted cloud.

It saves my data allowance being killed if I take a lot of pictures and only have 3G coverage. Sure, if I lose my phone or it breaks, I will have lost upto 24 hours of "stuff" but that's not an issue.

Any music etc I download to my PC gets synced to the cloud and, at the previously set time at night, syncs with my phone automatically. Seems complicated but it's very simple and, once set up, runs in the background.
 
Richie said:
I prefer to use a mix of Syncme Wireless and Wuala to do my backing up and sycning.

Syncme Wireless will sync my phone with my PC nightly at a set time which then forces Wuala to update from PC to encrypted cloud.

It saves my data allowance being killed if I take a lot of pictures and only have 3G coverage. Sure, if I lose my phone or it breaks, I will have lost upto 24 hours of "stuff" but that's not an issue.

Any music etc I download to my PC gets synced to the cloud and, at the previously set time at night, syncs with my phone automatically. Seems complicated but it's very simple and, once set up, runs in the background.
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You can set the G+ auto-upload to only use wifi, then as soon as you connect to wifi it starts the upload automagically :)

They should be private though until you specifically share them with people so no idea how people were commenting on them ¬_¬
 
Also use dropbox here and set it to use wifi only................it also stops when the battery is low
 
I just prefer the security of Wuala for now. I would move to DB if it encrypted the files client side. I don't have anything dodgy, just family photos etc.

I like that DB has moved to 2 step auth tho and it uses the Google Authenticator on my mobile so keeps it all neat.
 
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