Is uploading pictures on Facebook a nightmare?

For some unknown reasons, most of my uploads using the default facebook picture uploader either fail or take too much time, and then fail (again) at the last second.

This java application’s interface isn’t nice either and it doesn’t offer much features to the Facebook user, who is eager to share his pictures quickly without much effort. Without a basic knowledge of some graphics package like Adobe Photoshop, it is also difficult for a normal web user to modify his pictures, add some fancy effects and text. And the Simple Facebook uploader is even worse 😛

Enter Picasa and Picasa Uploader

But since a few days, I have been experimenting a plugin called “Picasa Uploader” which allows you to upload directly to Facebook using Picasa. lol, the name says it all.

It is pretty simple and fast, download picasa here and the plugin here.

Few words about Picasa

For those who don’t know about Picasa, it is a Google product giving you up to 1 GB free space for your pics.

I have been using Picasa for quite some time, allowing me to upload my photo shoots as soon as I reached home, without any need to monitor what’s going on the screen. Some features I like about Picasa are ;

• Nice Picasa Interface with easy tools for modifying your pictures, organizing your albums and simply great way to view them.
• Quick selection and upload
• Highly secured area for displaying your pictures, i.e you can select and send invites to those whom you want to show the pictures.
• And now, integration with Facebook 🙂

Check out what says Wikipedia about it.

For those who still struggle to organise and upload their pictures, give Picasa a try, it is a completely different world…