I recently switched on the new Picasa2 screensaver for Windows. I love it because I can point it to any album in Picasa, or any label — perfect for displaying random photos from a favorite set I’ve tagged already.
But here’s the bad news: Google logos start showing up at odd intervals, superimposed on your images. Not all the time, but not acceptable. As with all things Google, it’s a little awkward to complain about free wares, but I’m torn between having it do exactly what I want and not being able to find a way to stop that logo from displaying as well.
I haven’t decided whether to give it up yet, but I’m going to go looking for an alternative. Given that Picasa stores the album definitions in simple XML files in a known location, it shouldn’t be that hard to write something to read through them.
Janek | 12-Dec-07 at 5:13 pm | Permalink
I just wrote a small “how to” to removing the logo from the screen saver, it was really easy.
http://www.hellqvist.com/janek/weblog/2007/12/13/how-to-remove-the-google-logo-from-the-picasa-screen-saver/