Picasa for Linux
December 11, 2007 by Clair Ching
Filed under Geeky Fun, Multimedia
Do you use Google a lot? I suppose that if you are, you also have a Picasa account. As such, you probably have a bunch of photos that you upload so you could share them with friends and family or just so you have an online album that you could look at any time and any possible place with internet access!
Thankfully I was able to read news about the new release of Picasa 2.7 beta for Linux and it has packages for Debian and Red Hat Linux distros. And it also has the .tar.gz for any other distro.
I tried it out and it was quick to install because I got the .deb package. On Ubuntu, I only clicked it and it was installed. Before using it though, I had to agree to the terms of service. Then Picasa started looking for images in the desktop machine that I am using and before I knew it, everything was there already. Even if I haven’t really used my Picasa account much (I have one because I use a whole lot of Google services and the login is shared), I didn’t find it difficult to use because the user interface was easy to understand.
But I have to admit, I am still more of a Flickr user because of the simple to use user interface and tagging system. 
you can have picasa (and gmail) email your pictures to your flickr account. All you have to do is go to the upload tools section of flickr and get the email address that you can send it to, and add that as a gmail contact. then you can email the pictures from picasa to the gmail contact. The subject should be the title, and the description should be the body. The tags should be on a line that starts with “tags:”.