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I had been using the Dezinerfolio version 1 photo gallery (link) to display photos on my page from my Picasa account.  I didn’t want to manually handle photos, so Picasa seemed to be the way to go.  Needless to say for anyone who tried to view those photos it was awkward at best.

I then tried to switch to Dezinerfoilo version 2 (link) but it hasn’t worked quite right and the developer is working to get it fixed.

Recently, I found my new system, it’s called PWI or Picasa Web Integrator (link).  It’s java code that uses Google Picasa’s API to pull the pictures into a website and display them.  You can check it out in use at my Photos Page.   I can make changes regarding album visibility, captions, etc. to the photos in Picasa and see it reflected immediately on the photos page.  It also has full CSS capability so I can (and did) edit the CSS to make the photo container match my site.  I can’t imagine an easier way to display photos on a site while retaining visual “customizability”.  There are picasa widgets, but as far as their appearance…you get what you get.

Google Chrome

-New Browser from Google (Duh.)
-Much faster than Firefox (for now – until Firefox 3.1 drops with their new JavaScript Engine…anyway)
-A little strange.  The only thing that I’m missing is the integrated FTP client.
-It seems to run all web apps, both work and home, much faster.
-It’s memory management is less prone to runaway bloating when open all day.
-It’s way of saving a web-app as a program is very hand for things like Google Calendar and Gmail

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