April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
Content preview from Google Apps Hacks
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
229
HaCK
# 94
- DISGUISE YOUR PICASA IDENTITY
HaCK 94:
Change your Picasa address, and add another login name to your
Google account at the same time.
When your Google username is your real name—such as JaneAnnDoe1980@gmail.com—then your
Picasa Web Album addresses will be along this format, including that name:
http://picasaweb.google.com/JaneAnnDoe1980/MiscellaneousPics
However, there may be times when you want to share pictures of your album without revealing
your full name (or your birth year, for that matter). Picasa already allows you to select a
nickname different from your Google name for display on album pages. But the URL, as shown
in the example, is still a giveaway.
But there’s help, as Romanian Google watcher Ionut Alex. Chitu discovered on his independent blog
Google Operating System (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com). First, login to Picasa Web Albums at
http://picasaweb.google.com. Click Settings on top. In the section titled Gallery URL, there’s a link
to the righthand side reading “Want to add a new Google user name?” as pictured in Figure 9-24.
The Picasa Web Albums settings page
allows you to change your URL
After clicking on this link, you will be forwarded to a dialog where you can provide an alternate user
name for this account, like “rogerrabbit”, or any other name that’s still available. Conrm the change
via the ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.