First things first: If you haven’t upgraded to Picasa 2.7, now would probably be a good time to do that.  It’s been available for a couple of weeks, and there are major improvements, in particular speed improvements.

Once you have that done, go checkout Picasa’s new flash slideshow feature. A handful of startups have offered a slide-show presentation that could be embedded into sites and blogs, but Picasa has

The latest version of Picasa is now ready for download.  It’s been a couple of months since we’ve seen an update, with the last major version in February including a big update with support for Windows Vista and updated icons.

This time around, you’ll notice major speed improvements in comparison to the previous versions, and better RAW support. Other major improvements include better integration for blogs with the “Blog This!” feature, and

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We’ve covered online photo editing options before like Fauxto (the online Photoshop clone), Phixr, and Snipshot. While all of them proved easy and convenient to use, another service called Picnik just became number one on my list.

Picnik was written in Flash, and as an online web application, it’s fast and easy to use. The user interface is intuitive, and best of all it’s

Yesterday, Google’s Picasa Web Albums pushed out a few needed improvements/features. December was the last time they added new features, so it was about time for an update. They’ve got a whole list of all of the recently launched features which you can check-out, I’ll just point out some of the ones that stood out:

One of the biggest new changes is that they’re now allowing 1GB of free storage.  Just like Gmail, it