Fired up Picasa2 last night and was prompted there was an upgrade available so installed the upgrade. The new version allows me to post pictures to my Blogger account now without the need for the previous “Hello” middleman.
You can check out the end results at my photo blog here.
Picasa is just a great little tool for anyone with lots of pictures on their machine. It’s great for adding keywords assigning categories, looking at photos chronologically through history, etc. Plus it’s got the majority of any image editing options most users would need: red-eye reduction, cropping, resizing, and artistic photos touches like sepia, grayscale and blurring.
The other nice feature for home users is that it easily lets you send your photos to friends by e-mail in an email and bandwidth friendly file size. I highly recommend this feature for anyone that wants to share photos with friends and family on a regular basis, but doesn’t want to setup a blog. But with how easy it is to setup a quick photo blog like mine through Blogger, can’t get much better than that.
Oh, and for the ultimate keyboard shortcut. Just use ALT+TAB or ALT+SHIFT+TAB to quickly cycle through your open programs. The perfect little key combo for the multi-tasker in all of us. I’ve used it 4x already just writing this post.