Note: Picasa is now Google Photos
Anyone fearing Google’s acquisition of Picasa would have any negative impact on the application can rest easy. The latest version just arrived and it’s awesome! All the photo organization features still work just as well as they did in the last version, without annoying picasa.ini files popping up everywhere on your system. Slideshow creation is a slick new feature, which makes for a nice presentation tool when coupled with built in CD and DVD burning. Blogger is now fully integrated, making posting to a photo blog seamless. Movie generation outputs MPEG-4, DivX, or uncompressed AVI footage from any collection of photos. If there was a way to sync with my mobile phone, this might be the perfect photo management app, without cell phone support it still comes darn close. [Windows 9x/XP $0.00]
