Media for Memories

They grow up too quickly. One of the rituals I have instituted in my family is to look at pictures together – it is an opportunity to keep the memory of shared quality time fresh. Everyone has figured out how to shoot lots of pictures cheaply with a digital camera, but I have struggled for a while what to do with them. For a long time, they just lived on my computer and it required some effort to actually look at them.

picasaThis has changed since I connected my computer with my TV and my stereo to convert it into a media center. Now I can flip through my picture collection on my TV which is much more convenient. I’ve set my screen saver to a slide windows 7show of random pictures, which automatically initiates picture sessions. I can react to them when the opportunity is right.

With this I had the choice how to manage my media collection. The two contenders for me were Media Center for Windows 7 and Google’s Picasa.

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