How to make Picasa work with proxy

Problem: when I try to connect to Web Albums in Picasa desktop I see the “failed to connect” error message. Apparently Picasa is trying to connect to internet directly while my environment has a proxy with authentication (squid).

Solution:

• Open Picasa
• Make sure IE has correct proxy settings
• Open IE (not sure if this is needed)
• Click “Blog this” in Picasa
• Blogger login window appears
• Enter any stuff into Login/Password fields (actually I entered a registered Blogger user name but with a wrong password)
• You will get an error and invitation to log in into Google account instead
• Log in to your Google account
• Close “Blog this” window in Picasa
• Click “Web Albums” in Picasa
• You should see a Google login page in Picasa style
• Log in to your Google account
• Upload your cool photos to share them with others

Enjoy!