Picasa for Mac? Where?

Did Google really release their desktop photo management software Picasa for Mac yesterday? Because there's a press release that says they did, but both times I have tried to download the Picase 3 Public BETA release for Mac all I get is the Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac. According to the help page I should get 'picasamac.dmg' but as you can see that's not what downloads.

Thankfully the Terms of Use you are signing up too after you click 'Download Picasa for Mac (beta)' are the standard Google for Mac Terms of Use; could have been a little problematic if you're agreeing to terms that do not correspond with the software you are provided with.

Clearly the download link is directing users to the wrong page. If you open the PicasaWebAlbumsUploaders.mpkg file you will instal the Picasa Web Albums Uploader not Picasa 3.

Certainly doesn't look anything like the screenshot in the press release.

While we're on the Picasa Web Albums Uploader and since I am not playing around with Picasa 3 for Mac I'll take the time now to also say that I never really saw the need for the Uploader standalone software since the same package automatically instals the Picasa iPhoto plug-in which is much better and integrates right into iPhoto. Still, at this point it seems like you can't get the Picasa desktop application for Mac... just yet anyway...

In the meantime here's Google's official video about Picassa for Mac, to give you an idea of what it should do.

UPDATE (6 January 2009, 11.11am): It seems someone at Google picked up on the issue pretty quickly. I'm not exactly sure when but when I tired to download the Mac public Beta for Picasa 3 just after 11 o'clock the splash page and Disk image (*.dmg file) had been corrected.

I plan to write a detailed post about Picasa 3 for Mac when I've had a good play around with it. Stay tuned.