Now where did that get saved?

Technical Google stuff to follow:  Beware!

What I was trying to figure out when taking Biscuit's picture was where and why the pictures I was taking were being stored....  I couldn't erase them....  They were going to some web album that I could see on the Gallery App on the droid phone...   Instant upload...




When I used the browser to look up Picasa Web Albums, it was there all right...
But when I clicked on the insert photo button in the blog editor and selected Picasa Web Albums it wasn't there....

I went back to the Instant Upload Album on the browser web albums and determined that you could delete the unwanted pictures by choosing the button marked actions...   But you have to select the photo that you want to delete and have it be the only picture on your screen...  Just highlighting it on the album page won't give you the action to delete an individual photo...

Once its the only picture on your screen, you can delete it... under the actions button...

But if its in this instant upload album, why can't I select it for the blog......  Well silly you can...... On Blogger's editor,  if you look at the places where you can select photos under the upload pictures button, you'll notice "from your phone".....

Well its not really from your phone, but rather from this Instant Upload Album that your phone is populating automatically....  Good ones and bad ones they're all there...

But my old phone didn't do that...... so there must be a place to turn it on and off.....?  Couldn't find anything in Blogger... Or Picasa Web Albums...

So I started searching  on the Android phone.....  The only logical place would be in the camera settings...  So I pushed the gear icon for settings and systematically went thru all the settings that could be changed....  And its there too, under Accounts, Google, Google+, Photos and Videos, Instant Upload.  And the little switch says on.  Should I leave it like that?

I surmise that this is all available because I signed up for Google Plus when it first came out...  Which co mingles your albums into one area of management by the google plus gods...  So with the newest google phone and software, you can manage these things all together..... and evidently right from your phone...

This further demonstrates that Picasa is now or will be a part of Google + ...  And Blogger isn't far behind.  We will be blogging for Google Plus one of these days....  They want you to link your profiles right now.... Something I have resisted...

So how would you know all of this without playing around all day with it...  And better yet, since it doesn't seem to make sense logically, how do you remember that google plus is really the manager of your picasa stuff....?  On your phone?

Well anyway if you have a google phone and google plus account and a google blog, then you might also have instant upload, so beware that you have copies of pictures that might need erasing...

But on the other hand, I posted Biscuit's picture by just selecting it under "from your phone", without any transferring, or copying... or sending it by email..  Just quick and dirty take the picture and include it in the blog...

Of course that doesn't give you any chance to crop or recolor or resize stuff....  Which almost all of my photos need........

But hey its quick and dirty.......

Retired Rod