PICASA: Picture & My House

Picasa is software digital photo editing applications, the maker is actually the Idealab and now owned by Google. These applications run on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, and Mac OS X that can be downloaded through the Google Labs. For Windows 98 and Windows ME, only the older version is available. "Picasa" is a mixture of famous Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase "MI CASA" to "my house" and "PIC" of "pictures" (personal art).

In 2002

Created by Idealab. Picasa is free photo management software that sold as shareware

July 2004

Google Inc. has bought the company from Idealab, since the software is free. Picasa owned by Google since 2004 until now.

Early June 2006

Picasa is available as a free download for the distribution of most of the Linux operating system. This is not a native Linux program but adapted version of Windows that uses the Wine libraries.

June 6, 2006

Picasa Web Albums was first leaked. When introduced, it comes with 250 MB of free space.

August 15, 2006

Google announced it had acquired Neven Vision, a technology that can be used to find features in images such as people or buildings.

Since June 2007

Picasa can write geographic coordinates to EXIF metadata, is also an image geotagging.

March 7, 2007

Picasa Web Albums upgraded to 1 GB. Users can also rent additional storage space.

2 September 2008

Google leverages Neven Vision, a technology for facial recognition and the function is launched on Picasa Web Albums.

January 5, 2009

Google released a beta version of Picasa for the Mac, only on Intel-based Macs only. There is also a plugin for iPhoto to Picasa Web Albums upload hosting. There are also standalone Picasa Web Albums Upload Tool for OS X 10.4 or newer. Picasa for the Mac released by Google Labs.

July 2009 - November 2010

Google announced that there is no Picasa on Linux to version 3.5, due to the low acceptance. Google has officially only has Picasa 3.0 Beta for Linux.

March 2011

Launched the newest version of Picasa that is version 3.8 that supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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