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Google just added Walgreens as a print provider for its Picasa Web Albums service, which means that there are 57 convenient San Francisco locations from which to fetch the baby picture crack that my kids' grandmothers crave.
I was quick to report this bit of news my wife, with whom I've been waging a sort of online photo service war. She's a Kodak Gallery partisan--a preference she explains by citing all the pictures of ours and of our friends that already live there, and pointing to the Kodak service's spiffy photo book and pillow case options.
My main problem with Kodak Gallery (I always forget that it's no longer called Ofoto) is that once someone has uploaded their pictures, the only way to get them back at a decent resolution is to order prints. I find this photo service lock-in almost as obnoxious as trying to scan your cruise ship or shopping mall Santa photos and having them come out with secret VOID watermarks all over them.
My other Kodak gripe is that the company only makes photo upload software for Windows and Macintosh, which is inconvenient for our Penguin-powered family desktop. There's a Firefox add-on for uploading pics to Kodak's service, but it's over a year old at this point and lacks support for the current version of Firefox.
With Flickr (my old service of choice) and with Picasa (my current fave), I can upload pictures from my photo management application of choice, F-Spot. More importantly, you can set up either service so that you or your pals can download your photos at full resolution and then go and do whatever you want with them--even make pillowcases at Kodak.
Flawless-as-ever logic notwithstanding, my wife remains unconvinced. Maybe I'll make her a coffee mug.
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