Digital images have taken over a lot of peoples’ lives and I am included in that gang. So the next step is how do you share and view all these images since they add up over the years to be quite a large number.

The first awesome tool that came along in my humble opinion was really Picasa and since Google bought them up, I guess they agree with me on that point. But the problem still remained and there was something missing that I wanted. To make it easy for my family to browse through my pictures just as I do when I use Picasa.

Well, today my wish came true when I read about Orb on GeekDojo. So I installed it to see how good it is and you can imagine my surprise when this thing worked through tripple firewalls (including our Corp. one). Basically, now provided that I share a user name and password, anyone can access my image library that I have shared on my laptop and browse through it at a fairly good speed. Wow is the word really…

[Update: 10 minutes after my orb was running, it could no longer connect to the server, so I guess our network admin didn’t like the traffic. I guess I will have to wait until I am no longer behind a corp. firewall.]