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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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RE[2]: Is there something I don't know...

by bousozoku on Tue 6th Jan 2009 15:49 UTC in reply to "RE: Is there something I don't know..."

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Are you sure it is native? doesn't look native to me. It doesn't seem to use any of the native OS X widgets. It could be pretty much ported using Wine but with hacks to render the menu in OS X menubar.

Doesn't DarWINE handle everything that WINE handles?

As soon as I saw the requirements for Intel processors, I figured they'd just did the simplest of porting to get Picasa on Macs through WINE, which is about what we also got on Linux, it seems.

This means a lot of people will have downloaded it, saw the look of it, complained about it, and removed it by now. "It's not a Macintosh application." they'll whine, because it doesn't look 100 % like iPhoto.

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