Put your photos online with PictureSync

PictureSync is a utility that lets you annotate an upload your photos to a number of online services, including Flickr, Smugmug, Fotki, Zoto, Shutterfly, Photobucket and more. Simply tell it which service you're using, select the pictures you want to upload and you're all set. You can select photos from your iPhoto library, from an iView Media Pro catalog or from a folder in the Finder. That's what they say, at least.

I had bad luck using this application. First off, I wanted to use it with my Flickr account. It crashed twice while trying to launch a browser so that Flickr could authenticate it. On the third time it finally worked. Next, I opted to have it select pictures from my iPhoto library, but changed my mind when I saw it wanted to first import all 3,000 photos (the progress bar was creeeeping along). When I instead elected to pull photos from a folder, I received this message:

"Finder got an error: Can't get name of every file of folder "". (-1728)"

Oops. Eventually I got something uploaded, but not without a lot of undue effort. Your mileage may vary (I'm using a 1.25GHz iMac w/1GB RAM and OS 10.4.5), but I've had to uninstall PictureSync. It requires 10.3.9 or greater and a single license will run you $14US.