Linked by Adam S on Tue 6th Jan 2009 02:20 UTC
After far too long a wait, today, Google released the first beta of Picasa for Mac. Picasa is a free, powerful photo management tool that includes many photo editing operations that the Mac native iPhoto lacks. In addition, Picasa is tightly bound to Picasa Web Albums, the first 1GB of which is also free, in contrast with Apple's MobileMe, which runs $99/year.
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It definitely doesn't look and feel native -- it looks a little bit like really bad GTK theme. The scrollbars are particularly weird. But upon looking in the bundle and noticing that it uses breakpad (which is also used in firefox, chrome and last.fm), dcraw and keystone (for the updater), I cannot discover anything. The main executable is a carbon thing, and there are a number of nib files around. There are no tell-tale signs of statically linked toolkits either, although there are many references to windows-specific code (especially registry handling) left.
Not sure what to conclude from that -- apart from that it looks and feels totally out of place and sort of handles icky.