Handful of Nothing

Google has launched it’s mac oriented blog and along with the software download page it’s showing off some love for mac users. I’ve also tried out some of the appz there that I didn’t know nothing about:

The picasa web albums exporter for iPhoto :
Well, this thing didn’t worked perfectly in my first album (an odd error message) but the album was there. For those that didn’t know about the webalbums, (like my linux-oriented friends) the album looks a lot like flickr, but with a simpler and uglier interface. Ok it’s a beta-beta but I expected more. The only felling that I have right now about Picasa and it’s webalbums is:
“Damn! No chance of having Picasa for OSX”. I don’t hate iPhoto but Picasa is a lot better.

The exporter plugins is easy, simple and very straightforward. Select pictures, file -> export, choose the album name, a quality setting (very limited for me: only 3 choices) click upload and you are ready to go.

Despite of everything on thing is looking good in the end: Google and Apple are getting closer and closer and if in the future google really plans something like a “Google OS” (which I doubt) it would be wiser to see a OSX in the background instead of a Gnu/linux. Even better: a OsX with a Gnu/Linux Kernel replacing the currently darwin kernel. That would be sweet but I confess it’s easier to see an Iphone, then a Ipda before we can put our hopes on a Linux powered OSX.