picasa (and it is for free
Yes, but it's from Google!
Who knows what is being sent to Google... (Picasa
does send data to Google).
I have got to be a bit sceptical concerning any Google products, as Google is making a good part of their money by intruding privacy and selling the information that has been gained. That's why I'll never have an Android system or use a Google browser....
Turning point for me was when Google made a statement that they don't need the streetview cars any more to collect WLAN information because "Android devices are doing this now" (in other words: Every Android handy is also a data collection tool for Google!) and when they claimed that it was "unintended that not only the names of WLANs were gathered but actually the networks have been penetrated and data has been pulled from the networks...".
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Now I finally know why my laptop harddisk is full all the time, all the data out of my neighbours WLANS is filling it up, all by itself, without any action by me...!
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But back to the theme.
The main thing I am looking for is "taging images/videos" with as many tags as I want and later being able to find them using those tags.
Picasa seems to be more of a "album generation and upload (to Google) frontend" than a indexing database.
Further I don't like that Picasa cannot be told to search one specific directory only, it is indexing either "my documents" only, or the whole computer, right?