I hate using browser-based file uploaders because inevitably they’re not compatible with my Ubuntu Firefox browser. Plus there’s all that unnecessary clicking.
A few months ago I found the GoogleCL package, a script which can update nearly any Google service such as Google Plus, Picasa, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, and many others.
Rather than manipulate a large album of pics through some horrid web UI, I simply use this command and the album gets created the way I want it, the first time!
google picasa create –summary “The City of Raleigh held a stream monitoring workshop to train citizen-scientists to monitor city streams” “City of Raleigh Stream Monitoring Workshop” –date 2012-08-25 *.jpg
Now that’s what I’m talking about.