Bye PC, Mac Got Me » Google http://macgotme.com One mans story of switching from PC to Mac Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:53:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Picasa for Mac – When will Picasa become available for the Mac? http://macgotme.com/2008/10/26/picasa-for-mac-when-will-picasa-become-available-for-the-mac/ http://macgotme.com/2008/10/26/picasa-for-mac-when-will-picasa-become-available-for-the-mac/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:58:03 +0000 Brady http://macgotme.com/?p=133 As a PC convert, I was an avid Picasa user. Picasa is Google’s own photo management tool that does a great job organizing and managing files, and it also has a lot of editing options built into it. Picasa’s ability to handle and manage a large amount of images while maintaining its speed is unparalled, and I can only imaging that it would be even more impressive on the Apple OS X operating system. I have 10’s of thousands of images in my Picasa library on my PC and Picasa works without a hitch. It’s never even crashed on me… It works like software should.

When will Picasa be available for the Mac?

Apparently a Google employee let the cat out of the bag that Picasa for the Mac will be available in late 2008. This news was originally made public back in January, and now in late October, there is still no new information regarding Picasa on the Mac. I’d just like to throw my name out there and let Google know that if they need any alpha or beta testers for Picasa for Mac, I’m whole-heartedly available.

Update: Picasa3

Now that Picasa 3 has been released for Windows users, maybe the Picasa team will be able to allocate some time to releasing a version of Picasa for the Mac. Let’s just hope that it will be soon… hopefully before Christmas. In fact, that’s all I want for Christmas. Google, Picasa, please grant me this one Christmas wish. At least a beta version of Picasa for Mac. Please….

]]> http://macgotme.com/2008/10/26/picasa-for-mac-when-will-picasa-become-available-for-the-mac/feed/ 1 Must Have Mac App for Google Docs Users http://macgotme.com/2008/10/25/must-have-mac-app-for-google-docs-users/ http://macgotme.com/2008/10/25/must-have-mac-app-for-google-docs-users/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:19:48 +0000 Brady http://macgotme.com/?p=122 I’m a huge fan of online documents, and love the ever-changing and ever-growing feature set of Google Docs, so it should come with no surprise that I am a big fan of Precipitate.

Precipitate lets you search for and launch the information you have stored in the cloud from within Spotlight or Google Desktop for Mac. It currently supports the following services:

  • Google Bookmarks
  • Google Docs

Precipitate works by creating files on your machine that are imported by Spotlight, then periodically checking in with the server and updating the local files to reflect any changes. Note that changes may take up to an hour to be visible in local searches.

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