Google acquires Picasa

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Its a great little program, my only issue with it was that it wouldnt do full screen mode on my parents ****ty i810 system (which is our main photo manager system). Oh well, Photoshop Album works alright.

Maybe I'll try the newer version and see if it works.

Google is awesome for making this puppy free!!!

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,Jul 16 2004, 01:04] i just noticed it now :p

btw, this may be abit offtopic (and it's not important) but i just wanna know, why is it that when i type in http://www.google.com it directs me to the google.com.sg (for singapore)

i suppose that it is on all the google sites :)

Yea I noticed quite often when I went to google.com it would send me to google.ca (I live in Canada).

They must redirect to your 'local' site based on IP or something for whatever reason.

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I love the DirectX interface it gives me hints of what Longhorn should bring--everything about Picasa ooozes smooooothness. :D

I did notice though that it has a problem updating the thumbnail display if the program is open and you save new images to a folder that?s being watched. I saved one image and it updated fine, the next one I added didn?t show up until I restarted the app, even though I said to refresh from folder. I hope Google management really gets development moving on this; it?s got such great potential and is already an awesome tool as is but could be better. The Picasa forums are still active too, which is a good sign.

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Nice software, but I have one or two hassles/problems with it.

1) After scanning my collections, it was using 150MEGS of memory!!!!!! After restarting the app, it is now only using 30megs, but ouch nonetheless

2) The ability to merge two albums together is limited by their names been vertically adjacent. I cannot figure out how to merge two albums with very different names :(

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great, i love this software.

i thought oyu didnt like it spydie?!

i like it. just wish it did 2 things differently. looking forward to v2 to see if they make the changes.

as for free.. i'm guessing they're making 1.6 available free to all so they get people interested in the product. v2 will likely be a pay-for product or alternatively, a free v2 and a pay-for pro v2.

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i like it. just wish it did 2 things differently. looking forward to v2 to see if they make the changes.

as for free.. i'm guessing they're making 1.6 available free to all so they get people interested in the product. v2 will likely be a pay-for product or alternatively, a free v2 and a pay-for pro v2.

true true.

good call spyder. you on the inside or something? ;)

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