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In the first version of the SimpleViewer Picasa template there were some "annoyances". Herman a friend and colleague complained that he couldn't generate a website. So I started digging, found the cause and found some other issues. The result was an improved version of the template.

Last week I received some questions from Dane Howard who is speaking at Flash Forward. His session is about how to combine Flash with XML to deliver animated templates. He asked for information on the Picasa export functionality.

For me it was a while ago I did something with the template internals. So after digging into the Picasa template stuff I could answerd his question. But most importantly I noticed an unfinished side project: the PostcardViewer template for Picasa.

PostcardViewer is another product of AirtightInteractive. Same principle but a different look.

Untill yesterday it was kind of hidden on the AirtightInteractive website. After re-discovering the template I decided to finish the project. There were two reasons for this: I don't like loose ends and I wanted to use the template for a portrait gallery.

Felix the author of the PostcardViewer even created the instructions on how to use the Postcard Picasa template.

Every time we come back from a vacation I want to get my photos online. Up until now it was a pain. Resizing the photos, setting up the navigation, reinventing the wheel because you didn't like the way it was set up the last time etc. etc.

This time it was different, after sorting the photos it took about 15 minutes to generate the website. What a relief!

I guess it's like a lot of things you just have to use the right tools:

• Picasa, for basic editing and organising your photos
• SimpleViewer Picasa Template, to generate the website

Picasa also includes some website templates but not as good looking as the SimpleViewer template.

Wesner Moise posted about a development talk given by Scott Guthrie.

Scott Guthrie's provided a behind the scenes walkthrough of how software is built at Microsoft, showed the real schedule, design docs, code, test plan and cases which were used and how they were built.

Scott Guthrie is founder and product unit manager of the ASP.NET and VS Web Tool teams at Microsoft.

I don't know about you but there are some applications that make me want to have an Mac OS X based machine.

This time I was reading a post "Thoughts on Flock" on Sam Aaron's blog. Flock integrates del.icio.us features with a web browser.

On the same blog in a previous post I saw a screenshot of Coverflow.

Just imagine, browsing your music collection visually! The first thought was WOW I want this too. Obvious the second thought, where can I get it. Followed by disillusion when I found out that it doesn't run on my machine .

Despite the disappointment still a great application, for those of you who have a Mac: I envy you, go get it!