Picasa is finally here for the Mac

One of the biggest complaints I had so far about making the switch from a PC to a Mac is that I really don't like iPhoto. I was used to working with a lot of pictures inside of Picasa which was easy to use and really slick, especially when you want to batch edit a ton of photos. Rumors swirled for a long time that Picasa would eventually make it to the Mac since there was a Linux version available, but I had to stick with iPhoto. Finally at Macworld yesterday, Google released a version for the Mac which I am very happy about. I immediately downloaded the beta (isn't everything Google releases in beta?) and installed it. It is about 20 megs for the download, and it only works on Intel-based Mac's. There is no installer, it is just a single application file. If you have used Picasa on Windows, the interface is basically the same. One neat thing is that it works with your existing iPhoto libray so that you don't have to duplicate your entire library on your hard drive. I haven't used it much so far, but it definitely will complete my workflow for pictures on my Mac.