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I have recently been viewing alot of my photos through Google’s Picasa. This program is great and adds photo’s to itself by searching your hard drive for the photos. This is all well and good and I love making use of Picasa and have in the past. But for Picasa to read your photos they need to exist somewhere on your hard drive. This is where my concern kicks in. I have many, many photos that span many trips, jobs, times and places in my life. I don’t want to lose any of the photos to a corrupt hard drive, lightning or an external hard drive melt down.

So I was viewing some photos today through Picasa when I noticed the “web albums” option on Picasa. The web album allows you to upload folders of photos to your own personal Picasa page where you can store, view and if you want share your photos with others.

I am personally not interested at the moment in sharing my photos with the world. I am merely looking for a third backup of photos that I really, really don’t want to lose. Very useful tool I think.