apple's iphoto vs google's picassa

This is more of a personal reflection that a true review of these two very fine photo management programs. Until I switched from Windows to Mac as my operating system of choice in August 2008 I would without a doubt say that Google's Picasa is the only photo management program worth using. However, once I fell in complete love with Mac OSX, I had to give iPhoto the opportunity to challenge my love for Picasa. Initially, I was not very impressed with iPhoto 08 and actually would use my windows PC to manage photos until Google released a Mac version of Picasa around January 2009. For the next several months I attempted to throw my complete support and time into using Picasa and it worked quite well - even interfacing with my iPhone with ease.

However, I was still not completely satisfied but unsure exactly why as there were not any particular features that I was yearning for or that I felt missing from Picasa for Mac. In fact, I have always preferred the way that photos can be scrolled within the Picasa program versus any other photo management program. But once I began using iPhoto 09 regularly, I thoroughly enjoyed how well Faces and Places worked but especially liked the easy sharing features for MobileMe, Facebook, and Flickr. Sharing your photos is just as important as organizing them and so I have now "comitted" to iPhoto 09. And once I better learned how to use events and albums, I felt that iPhoto 09 was definitely where I should be - for now...

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