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- bravestdawg, on 01/06/2009, -1/+65A beta from Google? No way!
- BrettFromTibet, on 01/05/2009, -22/+74FINALLY!
iPhoto sucks.... Google's gear is much better and more friendly for advanced users! - freqk, on 01/06/2009, -6/+43Give us Chrome god damn it.
- Meldarion, on 01/05/2009, -12/+44If you think iPhoto suck, then you've misunderstood wich target audience Apple made the application for. It's for casual people like your mom and the average user. Apple made Aperture if you wanted to go pro.
- ChillEnt, on 01/06/2009, -1/+28They did: http://lifehacker.com/5123996/picasa-for-mac-beta- ...
- drunkenmonkey87, on 01/06/2009, -1/+26Now released: http://dl.google.com/photos/picasamac.dmg
- poutch, on 01/06/2009, -0/+15Use it or not, finally there is some competition for iPhoto. I bet the next version will be way faster and more responsive.
- OSXpert, on 01/06/2009, -3/+17I'm hoping someone who hasn't used it yet can tell me how much "snappier" it feels in OSX...
- tdaddy11, on 01/06/2009, -1/+13This is going to make my mom happy. She's wanted picasa on her mac since I had her "switch" in 2007. VMware Fusion is great, but it's always best to have a native app.
- Jambi, on 01/06/2009, -0/+11http://picasa.google.com/mac/
- hartley, on 01/06/2009, -1/+12Can we have a native linux release now?
note: the current "release" is just the windows version packaged with wine. - mrBitch, on 01/06/2009, -2/+12OMFG it's so much "snappier" on OSX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- jasonh1234, on 01/06/2009, -0/+10You're not even going to try it? It's not Brussel Sprouts.
- tiiim, on 01/06/2009, -0/+10because competition keeps innovation high
- cigrainger, on 01/06/2009, -0/+9Agreed on iPhoto sucking. Such a difference with Aperture, which rocks very very hard.
- cigrainger, on 01/06/2009, -3/+11For advanced users? I really hope you're kidding. You can barely do anything in Picasa. You can barely do anything in iPhoto either, but seriously. Saying Picasa is for advanced users is silly. Aperture and Lightroom are great because you can adjust levels, curves, white balance, etc in RAW without opening photoshop. This is what I do to almost all of my photos, and it has made it so I very rarely need to open Photoshop when going through large quantities of photos. You can't do that in Picasa, I just downloaded and checked. Plus I'm willing to bet Picasa doesn't support Flickr, Facebook, or personal FTP uploading.
- fluxion, on 01/06/2009, -2/+10Picasa es su casa
- lvliv, on 01/06/2009, -0/+8kissing some ass? lol
- Jambi, on 01/06/2009, -4/+12Because iPhoto is a resource hog, and kinda sucks.
- morninglorii, on 01/06/2009, -1/+9This is meant to be a legitimate question, not an insult to Picasa: what benefits does Picasa offer over iPhoto that would make it worth switching to?
- doughnu7, on 01/06/2009, -3/+11Wow. They could not make the interface less Mac-like if they tried.
- alanocu, on 01/06/2009, -0/+8sigh....I guess I'm still one of the few running 10.4 on PowerPC - an Intel processor is required.
- nocternaloxide, on 01/06/2009, -0/+7Just reading some of the comments... you fools!
a) Gmail is beta!
b) Picasa is for organizing, not so much for editing. Edit all you want, where you want, the beauty of Picasa is that it'll catch the changes on its own and leave your files as you had them making NO DUPLICATES!
c) Flickr and Picasa are no where near to being the same sort of program. Flickr isn't even a program - soopafly, on 01/06/2009, -0/+6omg omg!! A PC nerd gansta!!!
- leamanc, on 01/06/2009, -1/+7I am using it right now, and am very impressed. Per usual with Google, don't let the "beta" tag fool you. This thing is very polished, and FAST. I use Picasa frequently on my Dell running the latest Ubuntu, and I've always loved it, but wondered if Picasa for Mac could really compete with iPhoto. Now I have no doubt. There's some things I like about iPhoto, but Picasa is just more flexible and even outdoes Apple on the eye candy.
- psylence, on 01/06/2009, -1/+7Here's hoping this more... native than their other 'Mac' applications...
- Zuwxiv, on 01/06/2009, -0/+6I love iPhoto, it works fine for me. But you're absolutely correct - the more players in a market, the better the products will be for the consumer.
Without competition, iPhoto has the risk of stagnating... and there are other programs, but the weight of Google will make everyone start looking for new, useful features. This is good news for anyone using a Mac. - NospmisRemoh, on 01/06/2009, -0/+6After 2 years my switch is now finally complete. Thank you Google. Now, what to do with this soon to be gathering dust in the corer Windows Box ... Left 4 Dead I suppose :)
- solarisom, on 01/06/2009, -0/+6One feature Picasa has the iPhoto doesn't is regularly updating folders when pictures are added to your hard drive. Good if you're not into importing pictures manually.
- drewpost, on 01/06/2009, -0/+6Well compared to iPhoto this thing feels a million times faster. If it had integration with MobileMe I would use it in a heartbeat!!
- inactive, on 01/06/2009, -1/+6Huh?
- KnoaWyls, on 01/06/2009, -0/+5I feel your pain dude. I've been waiting for this ***** for so long and then to find out it only works with the Intel based Mac's. Damn it all!! Where is my credit card!!?
- jasonh1234, on 01/06/2009, -0/+5Yay competition!
All I know is... I have a high end Mac. I have a BIG iphoto library. I have it on a Firewire 800 connected drive (7200RPM). It's slow as *****. You'd think it was rebuilding it's thumbnail views every time or something. - barthrh, on 01/06/2009, -0/+5It seems like the biggest thing (if it's important to you) is that it does not require you to manage your photos inside of its library. It can refer to a photo stored elsewhere. This makes it pretty painless to try, because you can point it to iPhoto and it won't duplicate your library. Personally, I don't need that feature at all. I need to import my photos somewhere and the new iPhoto structure is well organized; there is no reason not to use it. I have my library shared over the nw between multiple Macs, with the only limitation that it can only be open on one Mac at a time.
Aperture and Lightroom can both refer to photos elsewhere, but they cost $. - mrBitch, on 01/06/2009, -4/+9I make your mom happy...
- BossKey, on 01/06/2009, -2/+7> you've misunderstood wich target audience Apple made the application for. It's for casual people like your mom and the average user.
That's Picasa's audience too. I am 100% pro-Mac...and iPhoto sucks. Picasa's not perfect either, but the great thing is that maybe the competition from Picasa will goad the iPhoto team to do something right for a change. - MCA2142, on 01/06/2009, -0/+4Oh Sarah...
- robzthird, on 01/06/2009, -1/+5Safari runs better because its native. However, it does not have the extensions I require. Firefox doesn't like to run very...fluently on OSX.
- pika2000, on 01/06/2009, -0/+4I've been waiting for this for a loooong time. Finally! I'm a Picasa user on Windows before I switched to Mac. Although iPhoto 08 is an improvement over 06, I still miss Picasa. No longer. Downloaded and installed. The watch folder feature is the most useful one. I can't believe Apple didn't do this for iPhoto/iTunes. Also, making collages of photos is fun! Let's see what Apple would do with iPhoto09.
- fakeid781, on 01/06/2009, -0/+4My biggest complaint with iPhoto is that it will not rotate a stinking pictures without keeping an unrotated picture in the original folder and putting the rotated picture in the modified folder. I took the stinking picture in portrait and want to see it that way... so annoying
- zomgorly, on 01/06/2009, -0/+4its working for me
http://picasa.google.com/mac/ - pak314, on 01/06/2009, -0/+4I like the face recognition technology with which you can tag photos by people visible in them. Then you can search by those tags.
- enterneo, on 01/06/2009, -0/+4Picasa does not copy and create its own folder structure like iPhoto, but works with index files based on where the files actually live. This is tremendously beneficial to a leaner hard drive.
- pika2000, on 01/06/2009, -0/+3Is Aperture/Lightroom free? Picasa is free. :P
- nocternaloxide, on 01/06/2009, -0/+3Ahhh... Finally. So I made the move to Mac a year ago and since then I have been waiting for this. I used to have a PC, and I have lots of photos, with lots of edits from Picasa. That being said I kept all of my .ini files in their folders hoping that the edits would stick when Picasa came around to the mac. Well today I will figure out whether they'l work. They are all in my recycle bin now, and later after the fresh picasa finds all of my pics I will put a few back selcetively and see if they will work. It'll be interesting to see... BTW I noticed that they haven't incorporated something yet. I wish I could speak to someone from the project about it. PICASA ROCKS!!! And finally for Mac!
- MacParrot, on 01/06/2009, -1/+4I guess we'll just have to suffer through with FireFox, Safari, and Opera (amongst others)
- MacParrot, on 01/06/2009, -0/+3I'll give you a call when iLife or iWork is available for Windows. Or Final Cut.
See? It's a stupid argument - anthonylam, on 01/06/2009, -0/+3Just downloaded, installed, and imported my photo library. Pretty slick!
- Jambi, on 01/06/2009, -1/+4It's not. That said, it's pretty responsive and does what it claims to do reasonable well.
- mrBitch, on 01/06/2009, -0/+3Answer : While Picase looks a LOT like iPhoto, it uses a tagging system to track your photos rather than iPhoto's "events" system.
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