Woot! Google has released Picasa for Mac geeks!
I use Picasa on my work PC as a way to manage/sort/keep my random picture hoarding self sane - as it tracks images and photos all over my hard drive (not just in a specified 'Photos' folder). Picasa also automatically detects new images on your machine and updates itself immediately, so I can always rely on it to help me find an image that I have accidentally saved in a random file. This happens a lot. Ahem.
In a friendly gesture to iPhoto lovers, Picasa maintains your iPhoto library's integrity by asking to create separate copy of iPhoto images before editing, as they realized many users will use both iPhoto and Picasa. This way I can manipulate and re-arrange images in Picasa (and play around with their collage features, etc.) and not worry about my iPhoto projects being disturbed.
Picasa for Mac is still a Google Labs product (meaning it's still in beta, but really what Google product isn't...), so some nifty features (like geo-tagging) aren't working quite yet and you might encounter some rough spots. But hey, it's a great step - especially for those that go both ways (photographically speaking that is).

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