Google has released a Beta version of Picassa application for Apple machines. Picassa for Mac provides the same functionality to Mac users as the origional version of Picassa for Windows based PC Users. It integrates well with Apple’s iPhoto application. It primarily works the same way as iPhoto. Using iPhoto, Mac users can search for photos on their hard drive and edit them as well. In case of edited images, iPhoto maintains the updated image with the link to origional image as well. Picassa handles this better than iPhoto and maintains both the origional and edited image together along with their location. One key difference is that Picassa will show images as “Read Only” which means that you cannot edit them in Picassa, they way PC users can. This is to ensure compatibility between iPhoto and Picassa.

The Mac users will however miss the following features which are currently available in PC version:

  1. Geotag
  2. Webcam image capture
  3. Screen Capture
  4. Screen Saver
  5. Photo Viewer

Good job Google !

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