Picasa Name Tag

Recently Picasa web album has added a new feature called name tag. It is similar to the name tagging function on Facebook where you can highlight people's face in the photo and name them (it doesnt has to be face actually)

To enable this new functionality, you have to go to the settings and turn the name tags function on. You can also chose to hide the name tags from public


For the first time use, Picasa will automatically scan through all the existing photos and detect all possible faces in each photo. It is not 100% accurate, but in most cases it works quite well if people are clear in the photos, and this definitely saves you a lot of time to tag people one by one.

After the initial scan completed, you can go into your album and start naming the tags!

If the face is detected successfully you will find a white square on the photo where you can type in the name of the person. If you have a gmail account, it will try to find the name you typed from your gmail contact list. You can always add new name tag by clicking the "add" button on the left hand side.

After tagging your photos, visitors to your web album will see the list of people in your album
They can click on the person's name and see all the photos tagged against this person, very handy for people who dont care about photos without them. This function works in both Gallary level and Album level.

If you are the owner of the album, you will be able to see a new "people" tab where it lists out all the name tags in your album, and some tools are provided for you to manage the tags.
One very handy tool that Picasa provides is when you click the "find more" link on the above screen, you will be able to do a mass tag!!
It will list out ALL the unnamed tags in all album (mainly from the first time auto face detection), and you can select the photos you want to tag against the selected person! Amazingly it will find all the faces that it think belongs to this name tag and list them in the front!! And its quite accurate! (I think you need to tag some photos against the name first so that it will have higher chance of matching correct person)
This saves you so much time from going through every single photo in your album but unfortunately I only found out about this after I done over 2/3 of the photos in my album...

Alright thats all for the brief intro of this new name tag feature for Picasa, I spent whole day today tagging my photos and my wrist sores... better have some rest now lol.

近況 - 八月份

來稍微記錄一下最近發生的芝麻小事吧

工作
08/08/08我在Perpetual的工作告一段落了，我用我累積的加班假請了4天假。不過到了星期一下午公司打來，說有一個project緊急需要人補缺，希望我能馬上去幫忙。這個project是在一個叫Eastern creek的鳥不生蛋的鬼地方 幾乎快到Blue mountain！！沒辦法有工作當然還是要做... 所以只能取消兩天假期去工作了。Eastern Creek沒有任何大眾交通工具經過所以一定要開車...所以我跟公司要了一輛車來開，省的浪費我車子的公里數哈哈。還有外加要求補貼油費，因為油實在是太貴了！！不過目前還在跟上層商量中... 最主要是地點實在太不方便 附近找個餐廳都要開車出去 還有野生動物園在附近！！！

學校
week5 (上禮拜) 我選的兩個科目都有midsession exam要考 之前真的緊張到爆掉 因為有蠻多東西要念 而且最後一個學期不想搞砸 雖然這樣說但是還是很沒心情念... 現在考完了整個心情放鬆不少 而且知道最怕的那科過了 爽！！！

生活
昨天早上去打球 一開始因為車停太遠想去移近一點 結果在跑回車上的時候 我的手機從我外套口袋裡跳樓了！！用了沒半年的新手機就這樣多了一大堆刮傷...當下當然是心痛...但是後來想想就算了...還能用就好了 多了一些刮傷並不會造成任何的不便 所以傷心一下就算了 沒必要影響一天的好心情 ＝）（可能也是因為手機比較沒那麼貴重吧哈哈）
晚上終於去看了最近最夯的Batman The dark knight!! 很驚訝的是這部片已經上映一段時間還是幾乎滿場。就如同大部分人說的 這是一部非常好看的電影 長達兩個半小時但卻幾乎沒冷場 演員的演技更是讓人身如其境 尤其是Joker!! 還沒看過的朋友們(應該不多吧 =P) 絕對推薦這部!!

旅行
11月回台灣的機票定好囉！！假也請好囉！！自從工作以後第一次回台灣，也是第一次請這麼長的假(三個禮拜)，到時碩士也畢業了 爽爽爽爽爽！！！

Speeding ticket part 2

Last night when I was on the way home from friend's house warming party at Maroubra, I drove pass Cleveland street where I got a speeding ticket few months ago.

Dont panic, I am the kind of person that can learn from mistake (most of the time I guess =P), I was driving exactly 50km/h at the time, although I felt like the car was just "climbing" on the road, I still managed to hold my feet away from accelerator.

When I FINALLY reach the speed camera, the car behind me, for some reason, changed lane, and OVERTOOK me!!! Then guess what? The camera flashed!! EXACTLY what I did last time! Then I couldnt stop laughing, hahaha.

At the red light, I stopped behind that car, and took a photo of the number plate, just in case I receive the ticket again in few weeks time.

Mid year dinner

08-08-08 was such a special day, its fathers day for Asian, its Beijing Olympic opening day, and finally its also our company's mid year dinner!
Some of my Chinese colleague decided not to attend mid year dinner because they want to stay home and watch open ceremony. I chose to attend because I thought I might still have the chance to watch the ceremony if the dinner finishes early, plus I might be as lucky as last time to win the prize draw!! But the reality is: we got our entry at 8pm, main at 9:30pm, dessert at 10:30pm... and I was not lucky enough to get any prize this time... and by the time I get home it was almost 12, the open ceremony performance finished long time ago...
Anyway the food was nice (will be better if they can fill a little more food on a such big plate) and I get to catch up with colleagues that I havent see for long time (and some never seen before!).

Best sentence of the night: "Whats so special about Olympic opening ceremony?"... owned!

刺蝟

刺蝟...是一種有趣的動物

有著平易近人的外表 但是卻長著傷人的硬刺
有顆善良的心 但是卻不自覺的傷害靠近的人

很少看到刺蝟團體行動 也許是因為身上的刺不長眼?
很多人覺得刺蝟可愛 但是卻沒有人把它拿來當寵物?

為什麼?

除了可愛那部份 這些特徵是不是跟我有點像呢?
我總是不斷的刺傷我身邊的人 尤其是真正關心我的 愛我的人
我不喜歡這種感覺 但是卻一直重蹈覆轍
我 狠狠的傷了離我最近的人
一度敞開心也碰的一聲重重關起

也許 刺蝟天生就是種獨行的動物
我 是一隻冷血的刺蝟...