Picasa is now a Google application and also available as a web Album option which makes sharing photos, albums, picture slideshows or hosting images very easy & productive.The Picasa software is available for Windows 2000/xp only and Linux. For now, Mac owners will have to use the web album option with plugins available for iphoto and a standalone web album uploader app to allow easy export and upload.

Finding stuff is one of life's great frustration, certainly on computers. Luckily search add-ons abound. here's another free search application that gives a very comprehensive search facility.It's a free download for Windows. It's worth viewing the tutorial here (flash plugin required). You may not be surpised to learn that X1 is also the basis for Yahoo's desktop search program.