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Since 2007, users can purchase for a few dollars additional space for Gmail and post photos in Picasa. The original price was $ 20 a year for 6 GB extras, but this number has been progressively reduced to reach today eg $ 5 per year for 20 GB of additional space on Google’s servers.

Furthermore, for a few hours if you buy 200 Gb per year or more, receive a free full Eye-Fi memory cards with the popular SD format, but it also has Wi-Fi capabilities. Thus, inserting an Eye-Fi card in your digital camera you can store in your area ‘Picasa Web’ every photo you take, wherever you have wireless Internet (see link). Even the photo will be added to the exact geographical location of where it was taken, so you will not have to remember where you took all the photos, and you can easily locate such later all those taken in a particular place in New York.

To access this promotion, simply enter the common form to purchase extra space and, if you live in the U.S. and Canada, you will receive Eye-Fi card for a purchase over 200 Gb per year.These cards are not only compatible with services of photographs as “Picasa Web ‘, but with YouTube or Flickr. If you want to know if your digital camera supports Eye-Fi cards, go to this link.

While this promotion is limited to a couple of countries, gives an idea of the intentions of Google to make available to consumers their tools directly into devices access to information.