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Sunday, January 29, 2006

Picasa x 25?

Corsin Camichel in the forum noticed Google today briefly published a post on the official Google Blog, and then removed it. The post’s location was googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/picasa... (which at this moment returns a Page Not Found message), and this is what was left on Google’s own blog search for this entry:

Picasa x 25

Posted by Sanne Su San Lim, Picasa Localization Lead
27 Jan 2006

You love taking photos. You love your photo collection on your computer. But your options have been limited if there’s no easy-to-use ...”

Does 25 mean that Picasa (Google’s image management software) is soon available in 25 languages? And what keeps Google from telling the world?

Update: Dirson of the New Google Blog retrieved the full post from Bloglines:

“You love taking photos. You love your photo collection on your computer. But your options have been limited if there’s no easy-to-use photo software available in your language. So if you lived close to Wieliczka, Pulau Seribu or Wat Phra Kaeo you were stuck with English.

But no more! The team behind Picasa has now added 25 new interface languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Tagalog, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Catalan, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

All of these languages are one click away. Just download Picasa, and it will automatically match your system’s native language. If you wish to change your Picasa language, go to Tools > Options and use the pull-down menu on the “General” tab. (You’ll need to close and re-open Picasa to see your new language selection take effect.)

Shouldn’t you be able to organize your photos no matter where you are and what language you speak? Of course.”

Update 2: The post is now live. [Thanks Jason Parrish.]

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