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VIRTUALISATION Picasa for Mac: coming soon?
VIRTUALISATION Picasa for Mac: coming soon? | Picasa for Mac: coming soon? |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 28 November 2008 | |
  
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While Google is known for its cloud applications, Picasa runs on the user's computer, though it does integrate with the online Picasa Web Albums image-sharing service. Although Google offers Mac users the Picasa Web Albums Uploader and the Picasa Web Albums iPhoto Exporter as alternatives to uploading individual photos via a web browser, some people want to use the Picasa application on the Mac. They may soon get the opportunity they've been waiting for. According to AppleInsider, Google has begun internal beta testing of a Mac version of Picasa. There's no indication of whether Picasa for Mac will be 100 percent feature-equivalent with the Windows version, or when it is likely to make a public debut. It's not that Google is Mac-unfriendly. Other applications from the company, notably Google Earth and Sketchup, are available in Mac versions. Furthermore, the Google Mac team has also produced a variety of projects, including the open source Update Engine, Gears (a mechanism that allows the offline use of Gears-enabled web applications), and Precipitate (allows Spotlight to index Google Docs, Google Bookmarks and Picasa Web Albums). The other notable exception from the cross-platform list is Chrome, Google's (relatively) new browser. It seems the program is being developed with Mac OS X and Linux in mind, but we've yet to see a timetable for releases for those platforms. |
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