Any good programs like Picasa for Mac?

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by dbrsystems

I just bought the imac 20" with the intel duo core. I am a long...long...long time windows user. I had been working with picassa with around 7,000 photos. It is extremely fast and the editing features are easy to use. Also, i love the built-in blogger function. iPhoto has been fine but is slow...it seems to really have a hard time with the large number of photos. I had always heard macs were fast and designed to work with graphics and video...i'm just not seeing it yet. I too hope that google will build a version of picassa for the mac.

iPhoto, according to a lot of the people here who use it often, tends to be quite slow in general no matter what the CPU. I played with it a little bit but personally I didn't notice that much of a slowdown. Of course, I didn't import a gazillion pictures into it so I don't really know how bad the slowdown is.

I have finally had the opportunity to use Picasa for more than a few minutes and it's actually very good. I think choice is great and I do hope that Google would make it available for Mac users. They've already made it available to Linux users, but I don't like how they did this (through WINE). Hopefully they can produce a native version for Linux as well as the Mac soon.

[sfenton83]

I know little about coding - but, if they have put it out for linux, isn't there some way for us to port it to OS X? The kernel is the same isn't it? They both run off Unix?

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by sfenton83

I know little about coding - but, if they have put it out for linux, isn't there some way for us to port it to OS X? The kernel is the same isn't it? They both run off Unix?

As I mentioned in my post, they have it for Linux but through WINE, so it's basically the Windows version running through WINE, which means it's not native. The other thing is that they would have to port it over to run natively on OS X, and no one is goign to want to run a Mac application under X11 (check ouit OpenOffice for the Mac and you'll see what I mean). They want it to look and function like all their other Mac apps: seemlessly and simply, as a Mac app should be.

[tomdkat]

Does iPhoto come with Tiger?

Originally Posted by nixgeeek

and no one is goign to want to run a Mac application under X11 (check ouit OpenOffice for the Mac and you'll see what I mean).

I certainly would! But then again, I'm not really a Mac user.

Originally Posted by wajacksonmd

Before iPhoto I used iView MediaPro. It can handle a lot of file types.

iView looks neat. Too bad it costs so much.

Peace...

[Stridder44]

Originally Posted by dktrickey

...I haven't used Picassa (yet -- but I'm downloading it to try on my Power Mac.)...

Thats the problem. It's not for Mac. And yes, although iPhoto is a nice app overall, it is Ridiculously slow.

[Stridder44]

Originally Posted by sfenton83

So for those of us who really want picasa onto OSX how can we make it happen? There is a google group that wants it to happen too. I'm no coder - so how do we get one, or can we?

Count me in too.

[eric2006]

Originally Posted by Stridder44

Thats the problem. It's not for Mac. And yes, although iPhoto is a nice app overall, it is Ridiculously slow.

It is pretty slow, but scrolling is improved greatly in iPhoto 6. Is there any way to have the organization system like it is in picasa? Everything is in one, giant library in iPhoto. I don't know what photos are organized and what are not.. it's annoying. If they had picasa for mac, I would get it. Defiantly one of the best photo library tools.

[Lt Major Burns]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

Does iPhoto come with Tiger?

It comes with iLife '06 which comes installed on new macs, as does Tiger.

if you buy the boxed version of Tiger to upgrade your mac, then that doesn't come with any iLife apps.