Picasa for Photo Organizing

Google has bought Picasa

I downloaded it and tried it out, despite my heavy commitment (in time) to Imatch as a photo indexing tool. While its indexing system is not as powerful as a fully fledged image management system, its speed and ease of use are outstanding.

Try it -- you may like it.

It comes bundled with Hello! -- which I like much less. Hello appears to function like a Napster for your pictures. I do not feel comfortable with the idea of opening a pipe to my hard drive from the Internet, and I feel even less comfortable asking friends to install software just to look at my pictures. Its the Luddite in me, I guess.