I chose to explore the Calendar and Picasa. I actually never noticed Google's calendar feature so image my surprise when I open it up and it ends up being exactly what I need. It is just like a planner except I do not have to carry around a solid copy and I can access it anywhere I have internet! (Which is easy since I have a smartphone) You can set up events by the hour and it has holidays already listed inside. You can change the color of any event to make it stick out more or less. You can even create multiple calendars! Like a work calendar, school calendar, and maybe even a free-time or workout calendar. Any of your contacts birthdays will be automatically added onto the calendar making it difficult to forget people's birthdays. You can change the view from a monthly, 4 days, weekly, daily, or even agenda style. I think this is a great resource for everyone's life and best off it is free!
Picasa seems like a nice way to share and edit photographs. I did not want to download the software but what I read from the information page interested me. I especially liked the side by side comparison that you get whilst editing images so you can easily tell if you like it better the way it was or the way it is! There are a large amount of filters and settings you can run images through in order to tailor them to your liking. There is even a sync to web option where as soon as you edit a picture to your liking it is automatically uploaded to your web album. Currently I do not have much of a need for a photo editor but maybe in the future I will come back and give it a shot.
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