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Picasa for Mac

haha, great article and a sneaky way of finding out the truth. I hope it's true. I just switched from windows and all that I'm missing is Picasa. Hopefully it won't arrive too late.
 
I can't believe this news isn't getting more play on this site. With iLife '08, I finally decided to go iPhoto all the way, and let it organize my photos, etc.

I am pretty happy with this solution I suppose, but I know that others on this site would be much happier with Picasa on the Mac.
 
DCBass said:
I can't believe this news isn't getting more play on this site. With iLife '08, I finally decided to go iPhoto all the way, and let it organize my photos, etc.

I am pretty happy with this solution I suppose, but I know that others on this site would be much happier with Picasa on the Mac.
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I agree. This is huge! Picasa rocks! I cannot wait for it be released on OS X.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/1...rsion-of-picasa-due-to-be-released-this-year/

I've been running it under Crossover Mac, but it is a little buggy.
 
Refuse to use Picasa because they refuse to release Mac version for so long. They should learn their lesson.
 
phytonix said:
Refuse to use Picasa because they refuse to release Mac version for so long. They should learn their lesson.
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Yes, let's teach a lesson to those people who develop software and give it away for free! Let's not use it. That'll teach them to develop things for OS X faster.
 
I've never used Picasa, so I am curious, what is the advantage of it compared to iPhoto? (BTW, I use iPhoto's feature of not copying the originals to its library, so I use my own folder based hierarchy.)
 
theBB said:
I've never used Picasa, so I am curious, what is the advantage of it compared to iPhoto? (BTW, I use iPhoto's feature of not copying the originals to its library, so I use my own folder based hierarchy.)
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Picasa excels at finding and organizing an existing folder of photos. (In my opinion).

Picasa non-destructively edits photos, meaning that it only keeps the original photo on your drive, and all edits are saved in a separate tiny file.
 
timswim78 said:
Picasa excels at finding and organizing an existing folder of photos. (In my opinion).

Picasa non-destructively edits photos, meaning that it only keeps the original photo on your drive, and all edits are saved in a separate tiny file.
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Again though, how does that really differ from iPhoto?

I have iPhoto 08 on my MacBook and the latest version of Picasa on my desktop. Frankly, with the exception of Event view, they are quite similar in my opinion. And, iPhoto also non-destructively edits photos, the originals are kept in the Originals folder within the iPhoto Library.
 
timswim78 said:
Yes, let's teach a lesson to those people who develop software and give it away for free! Let's not use it. That'll teach them to develop things for OS X faster.
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considering their CEO is on the board of Apple you'd think they'd be a bit more level with releasing things. its not like it just came out either, its been around for awhile, and yet... nothing. which is why its disappointing.

i'll try it, but i have time invested in iPhoto, so i'll probably stick to it.
 
>>Again though, how does that really differ from iPhoto?<<

iPhoto will NOT let you rearrange photos easily. I have 09 and the only way to do it is to be in Photos mode. However, I have over 28,000 photos and cannot be searching through all that. Even when I tried to move photos around when I go back to the Events mode those changes are not made. I'm new to mac but I pretty sure I'm doing everything correctly.
 
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