Flickr, one of the best photo uploading and sharing website from Yahoo, has some handy tools for making it easy to upload images and photos on the website. These tools can be online tools or desktop applications or widgets.

Flickr Uploader is a photo uploading Yahoo widget for flickr which is available for Windows and Mac OS. It is studded with loads of features which makes the process of uploading pictures to flickr lot easier than the uploading process in the flickr website directly.

Here are a few features of the Flickr Uploader widget -

• You can upload multiple images at once, and can drag-and-drop the images to upload them through the widget.
• Enter the meta tags, like title, description and tags before uploading each picture.
• You can choose from privacy options like keeping them private, public, shared with friends, family etc.
• If you have pictures related to particular event, then you can have the same tags batch-copied to all the pictures that you are uploading.
• Background uploading feature, where you can organize new batch of pictures when one is uploading.
• No need to give your username or password as it works with the Flickr permissions system.
• Easy to use and automatically checks for the version updates.

The requirements for Flickr Uploader are -

1. Windows XP or 2000 or Mac OS X 10.2 or greater
2. Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.0 (or Konfabulator 2.1) or greater
3. A Flickr account

As the tool is a Yahoo Widget, you will need to have the Yahoo! Widget engine to run it. And then save the widget to Documents/My Widgets section in either of the OS.