Aperture to Picasa Web Albums plug-in - Part II

Back in July I wrote about the Übermind Aperture to Picasa plug-in. At the time I mentioned:

Overall this plug-in works great. The only issue I've seen is that it takes a long time to get your initial album list, but once that is done the application is very responsive.

I got a comment on that post from someone at the company saying:

We're close to releasing a version of the plug-in which super-charges the album loading process.

This morning I got around to playing with the product again. I downloaded the new version 1.2.1. Wow, they have done four releases since the last time I looked at this. I wish they had an RSS feed so I could keep track of these (I know they have a mailing list, but I already get too much mail).

The new album loading code is much faster than it was in July, although it's still a blocking call. I would love it if an application like this would cache the album list from the last time it ran, and then refresh it in the background.

I had one small problem with the plug-in. I happened to be running Aperture when I installed it, and after the install Aperture was completely frozen. I had to force quit Aperture. It would be prudent if Übermind could add a check to their installer script to see if Aperture is running and inform the user that it needs to be closed.

So, if you are looking for a good way to get your Aperture photos into Picasa then take a look at this plug-in.