For this week’s FreewareFrenzy, I’m going to take a look at Picasa 2. Picasa is free software offered by Google for organizing and editing photos. I do not have many photos, but what I do have is hardly organized, more accurately described as haphazardly strewn about my hard drive. Picasa makes it easy to find all of those images, categorize them, and then edit, share, upload, burn, etc. So let’s examine it.
Installation is quick and painless. Note that Picasa connects to the Internet for the various uploading services it offers. The final step of installation is choosing whether you want a Quick Launch Icon, Desktop Icon, and/or System Tray Icon. Normally this is not noteworthy, but too many programs install all of those things without asking, much to my dislike, so I thought I would point out the consideration of the authors.
