Older Notebooks (PPCs) New Software incompatibility

For those who aren't quite ready financially to swing a new Macbook, it's depressing that I have a Powerbook that's barely a few years old, but we are unable to use new software that's coming out because we don't have the Intel core 2. NOT FAIR> You know how bad I wanted to use the new Picasa? Developers: do you hear me now?