For those who haven’t heard, Google have released a couple of new applications today.

First, they have pushed Chrome out to the world. Chrome is Google’s take on the web browser, designed to be fast, lightweight and stable. I’ve been playing with it (and am writing this post using it!), and to be honest it actually seems quite good. Grab a copy and try it out.

Second, a new version of Picasa (and upgrades to Picasa Web Albums) was released. Picasa 3 offers a bunch of improvements, as well as much better uploading to the matching web album hosting service. Looks okay, although I still prefer the way Microsoft’s Windows Live Photo Gallery handles metadata by embedding it in the file rather than maintaining a database. Still, the Gmail and Picasa Web Albums integration is pretty good, so if that matches your requirements then go download.