Picasa Hub + Backup 1.1.4.1

Uploading and storing personal photos into the cloud is a quite common activity for many people and Picasa is one of the services with the most users.

In case you want to access from your Windows Phone all the pictures you have sent to this service or should you like to add some more images, a utility like Picasa Hub + Backup can take care of this for you.

Uncomplicated and rather dull front-end

The app provides a very simple overview of its capabilities from the main screen, offering very few commands, at first glance. The navigation through the various sections of the utility is fairly fluent, without lags and other types of flaws.

When choosing to open a picture inside Picasa Hub + Backup you will have the possibility to zoom in that image, if the size allows this, while the quality doesn't lose anything when the photo is loaded. The adverts that appear at the bottom of the screen can be disruptive as they keep changing every few seconds.

Access your albums and add pictures on the go

This application integrates seamlessly with Windows Phone and allows you to check out all your Picasa image collections from the "Photos" hub on your device.

Besides the albums, you can also view the profile pic and for each image you have onto the local storage it is possible to have it open inside Picasa Hub + Backup.

When accessing the sharing menu of any photo, you will have the possibility to select this app as well, so uploading the images from your phone is a breeze.

View detailed photo information and comments at a glance

For the images contained inside the online albums you can look at the comments and, if you're lucky enough, post some of your own, though the connection to Picasa services might appear to be broken.

In case you are interested in accessing EXIF data for the loaded pic, this app is able to provide it from a dedicated section, which contains image name and format, summary, resolution, size, credits and access permissions.