Flickr is one of the most popular photo sharing website. Many travelers around the globe use flickr to store all their photos. Many would even dump it on flickr on a daily basis. All you need is a computer connected to the internet. There are several tools that lets you upload photos onto the flickr website. All the tools lets you select a bunch of files that needs to be uploaded and it does it’s job to perfection. But, geeks would prefer something that involves automation; a tool that detects new photos dumped in a folder and uploading it automatically to flickr.

Life Hacker has written about a flickr tool, uploadr.py, that automates the process of detecting new photos and uploading them. But this tool may be deemed mostly for geeks as it involves complicated process of configuration. It is written using a computer language Python which is platform independent. This tool was written by Cameron Mallory and the entire directions for usage is available on Life Hacker.

If you are a novice to computers in general, I would advice against using this tool. Uploadr.py saves time but the functionality remains the same.