Well, Google is certainly making it hard for users of Apple’s .mac service to justify the cost per year. Granted for the extra money you get more webspace and for a person like me with quite the number of photos that are likely to wind up online, that may be the deal breaker – synching from handhelds using the computer and online storage space.
Today I found Picasa Web Albums Uploader. It works like the Flickr uploaders that are out there, and reports all the info that you need when uploading. Like the .mac albums, things do get down sampled (in this case to 1600*1200 – larger than to .mac, but this allows for people to print a better image as well) but it still is a viable alternative. While you are at it, you might want to look at this Google Image Labeller
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