I wish Apple would also have iWork included in the price to buy a Mac but I bet that will never happen. I have always stuck with Microsoft Office because I have been using it sense Windows 98 and have never learned all of the features of iWork.
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Picasa for Mac and FileMaker Pro 10 Released
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I wish Apple would also have iWork included in the price to buy a Mac but I bet that will never happen. I have always stuck with Microsoft Office because I have been using it sense Windows 98 and have never learned all of the features of iWork.
Noooooo
I have wanted this program for OS X since I switched, almost 2 years ago, and the day it comes out, Apple has my computer in for fixin'.
Time to go take over the family computer
I have wanted this program for OS X since I switched, almost 2 years ago, and the day it comes out, Apple has my computer in for fixin'.
Time to go take over the family computer
care to source your information?
in fact, it would be illegal for them to offer it for "free" because you bought a mac and make sell the same version for $79 in retail.
I'll chime in with the rest of you. Been waiting for this for years. Probably one of the many who wrote to Google asking for a mac version. I used to use picassa before my HP died, and I loved it.
But my laptop (12") and work machine (G5) are still ppc... so as much as I hate iPhoto, I can't shake it.
But my laptop (12") and work machine (G5) are still ppc... so as much as I hate iPhoto, I can't shake it.
Absolutely zero pro apps come bundled on pro machines. In fact, they've classically had less apps.
Yes, POWERPC is discontinued, but...
Yes, POWERPC is discontinued, but it's just INEXCUSABLE that Google couldn't have released something like Picasa as a Universal Binary.
Even Filemaker Pro is a UB, but Picasa is too complex or costly to do ???
I mean c'mon, probably 25-40% of the Mac user base is still PowerPC and that includes some very expensive and powerful Macs that many people WON'T be replacing in 2009 with the souring economy.
I just can't imagine it would have taken a lot more effort to make Picasa a UB.
And Chrome?
C'mon shameful Mac support from Google. I suspect now that Google has its OWN cell phone initiative, the once cozy Apple/Google relationship is probably now strained, so they're going to release half-azz Mac programs now instead?
Pathetic.
Yes, POWERPC is discontinued, but it's just INEXCUSABLE that Google couldn't have released something like Picasa as a Universal Binary.
Even Filemaker Pro is a UB, but Picasa is too complex or costly to do ???
I mean c'mon, probably 25-40% of the Mac user base is still PowerPC and that includes some very expensive and powerful Macs that many people WON'T be replacing in 2009 with the souring economy.
I just can't imagine it would have taken a lot more effort to make Picasa a UB.
And Chrome?
C'mon shameful Mac support from Google. I suspect now that Google has its OWN cell phone initiative, the once cozy Apple/Google relationship is probably now strained, so they're going to release half-azz Mac programs now instead?
Pathetic.
What exactly does "take control" mean? iPhoto is perfectly capable of either organizing your photos in its own database, or working with your own file/directory structure. Some people prefer not to worry about physical file structure, and iPhoto is great for that. Other people (myself) are more of control freaks and like their directory structure to be left intact - iPhoto is down with that as well with a simple option set in Preferences.
I guess I won't be using it then since even though I do have an Intel MBP (and a Windows machine for that matter), all my photo editing, etc. is done on my PowerMac. I guess Photoshop will have to do. Google clearly doesn't want my patronage. They can keep Chrome too.
If I'm not mistaken, doesn't Apple's current developer software and compiler produce PPC code from source code more or less for free (as in free beer) to make it simple for developers to make Universal applications? I mean most software coming out that is not available for PPC are games made through something like Cider where the code was made for a different platform. Maybe that's the case here too? More slow windows wrapper code.
I guess there's my answer....emulated code. That's FAR WORSE than even Cider's method. You might as well just run Parallels or Fusion on your Intel Mac and run the full featured Windows version. Google isn't a large enough company to hire a few Mac programmers to do it right, I guess. I'm glad I didn't buy any stock in them in the past few years. It's been tumbling down and if this is their game, I hope it continues to do so. They don't deserve my support.
You hate Firefox on Mac as in you're implying that maybe you like it elsewhere? It's the same program no matter what and it's completely customizable. I don't know how anyone can 'hate' it. You can make it almost just like Safari if that's what makes you happy (personally I'm no big fan of Safari). Chrome is a 100% Windows experience. What makes you think it'll be good on a Mac if you don't even like Firefox?
It's apparently an emulated (or close enough thereof) version and so of course it's not going to look like it's for the Mac because it's NOT MADE FOR THE MAC. It's made for Windows and they're just using some free open source tools to hack it well enough to run and nothing else. Like I said, just run Windows on an Intel Mac if you need Windows programs. I'd rather give my business to companies that actually support the Mac, not just play wrapper/emulation/conversion, which always looks like a Windows program and always runs much slower than on a Windows machine because it's being translated and little else.
As for 'free', clearly what the guy meant is Apple isn't giving ANYTHING away for free. They simply figure the cost/value of the product and add it into the price of the machine they're selling. Simply put, if they didn't include it, the machine would cost less. So again, you aren't getting ANYTHING for free from Apple. It's kind of like that 'free' credit check offered on TV, but it's NOT free. You have to enroll in Triple Advantage to get the 'free' report so they get your money. That's "free"??? LOL. But as they say, suckers are born every day and clearly those credit check guys are getting a lot of suckers or they would have gone out of business by now. Line them right up with the male enhancement and girls gone wild commercials (and throw them in the dumpster if I had my way). I mean there's the old tried and true pricing at the gas stations of $1.99 9/10. Not ONLY are they using the psychological tool for selling something JUST under a price point that sounds unattractive ($2), but they run it up as close as they possibly can without creating an accounting nightmare (i.e. it's not even $1.99, but that 9/10 means that you only save one cent per $10) and YET people will say it costs $1.99 when they tell their friends when any rounding method in the world would tell you that it's more correct to say it costs $2. But people fall for it hook, line and sinker.
Can you cite a source for this information, please? I took a look in the Picasa package and it looks like a normal Mac application to me. I'm not a coder though, so I might not know what to look for.
My MacBook howled while Picasa was importing, but it quieted down after that.
I don't change my iPhoto for Picassa.
But it is good that now there is another tool to increase iPhoto upgrades.
But it is good that now there is another tool to increase iPhoto upgrades.
Would love to try Picassa as well...if it didn't crash every time I try to import my photos.
How many GB do you have?
Cool I guess, but I'm sticking with Aperture
That's the best one. I used for more DSLRs pictures.... and iPhoto more for family pictures.
