Picasa

…so i was enthusiastic about the new Picasa collage maker, and i thought to myself i could easily re-create it in the web with the help of canvas, when …darn …i am late again:) Even without googling i accidentally came across the high quality implementation of Ernest Delgado (demo here, details here).
Good job Ernest, I will keep an eye on you!

Note to self: need more eyes.

This is an archive post. It represents a point of view in the past. Facts might have changed, events might be interpreted differently as of today. Links might be broken.

Still beta (you can easily get it from filehippo), but brings around some nice new features. I have been playing around with it a little bit, things i liked most:

* Photo Viewer is a real eye-candy, it replaces your default application for double click, it loads relatively fast, and has some nice user interaction features (try your scroll wheel on the image itself, and on the film band).
* Collage maker - it has a killer interface to create the photo pile of your wish, resize, rotate, move your images one by one.
* Quick filter by starred, uploaded photos, videos, or even photos with faces. It doesn’t include yet the face recognition and tagging that is already available in picasaweb.
* Movie maker - it is not really a movie maker, more like a presentation maker, but still, it puts much more control in your hands than before.
* There are some improvements on image import, and web upload, i haven’t tried these yet.

…ok, so as usually when i go on holidays something big is happening … at least a new browser is being born!
When even all of my non-geek friends are talking about Google Chrome, then Google has shot a big gun again. It was completely kept secret as far as i know and out of the blue they introduce this new browser that has some really neat features despite being an early version. The fact that at the same time they implemented face recognition in Picasa was not even noticed by many, although it is just as well exciting (or worrying:))
I will not do any review of Chrome here, go and try yourself, however i link here a great article that explains how the user agent strings have developed over time. Really, i never knew why IE said “Mozilla”!