Small things impress me. Most of the times.

I have been using Picasa for quite some time now, and have become a big fan of it. Recently, there was a need for me to urgently get some prints of some of the pictures I had in digital form, and give it to someone. I knew that Picasa had some ‘order prints’ feature but I had never bothered to click through it and see what it does.

So yesterday, I selected a label which chose all the pictures I wanted to be printed, clicked on Order Prints and it gave me a choice of 5 providers of prints. Of the five, Ritz Camera and Wal Mart took it one step further and said that I could pick up the prints at their local store within the hour!! Amazing, considering I had 20 or so pictures to print.

I went through the account set up at WalMart.com and uploaded the pictures and checked out of the shopping area and that’s it! Within the hour, it was ready to be picked up at my local Wal Mart. I was simply amazed how cool this technology was.

I have done a similar thing with Kinko’s where I sent something to print to a local store and picked it up from there, and now, it is the same with pictures.

Quite cool! I love it. The ease of Picasa combined with the convenience of one-hour printing.