Others have posted on the release this week of Picasa 2, the free image-management software from Google. (See Ryan’s comments, a recent post on Slashdot, and PC Magazine’s review ).

This is a fantastic piece of software. It makes importing, viewing, doing basic edits, e-mailing, and uploading a piece of cake. It’s also fully integrated with Blogger and GMail, and interfaces with any of a number of services for getting prints of your digital photos. I have also appreciated the media detector that comes with it. You tell the program which directories to watch, and it automatically adds new images to your gallery when you drop them there. Also, the program is very, very pretty.

I can’t say enough about Picasa. Get it.