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“One cable, one gorgeous panel, and six years of staring past your work at your wallpaper.”
“Picasso's house is closed, but every album we made still smells faintly of red-eye reduction.”
Picasa was a cross-platform image organizer and viewer, born at Lifescape in 2002 while incubated at Idealab, its name a blend of Picasso, casa, and pic. Google picked it up in July 2004 and generously made it freeware, and it quickly became the tidy little living room where people sorted and edited their digital photo memories. It ran happily on Windows XP through 7 and macOS, with Linux users getting in via Wine an
On February 12, 2016, Google announced it was discontinuing Picasa Desktop and Picasa Web Albums effective March 15, with the cloud-based Google Photos named as successor; the Web Albums followed on May 1, 2016. It was less a death than a gradual move down the hall — Picasa packed our photos into boxes and handed them to its younger sibling. The albums live on, just with a different return address.
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“One cable, one gorgeous panel, and six years of staring past your work at your wallpaper.”
“It modeled worlds for film and games, then quietly signed off. Good night, XSI.”
“It gave the iPhone a wardrobe. The fun one in the lineup, dressed in every color at once.”