Widgetty widgets

Hi there all the wordpress pros out there, I’d like to ask for some advice.

Forever now, anytime I want to post a picture on my blog, I would upload it to my flickr account and then paste the image URL here. You know, the old < img src thing. Since I don’t have a flickr pro account, and I really don’t feel like going through multiple steps if there’s a simpler way. With all these talents out there, there must be some kind of widget out there that allows me to upload it directly to my wordpress account / files / wherever it is and let me show the pictures that way. I’ll probably find it if I spend the next day or two exploring the internet, reading, learning yadda yadda. I thought I would ask you smart bloggers first!

What kind of picture uploading widget /method do you use? Is it hard to install / learn?

What other cool apps would you have used, or are using that you would recommend?? I want to join the Cool Kids Club too.

Please be as detailed as possible. Imagine you are explaining it to a cow if you will. (Not that I’m a cow, or cows are stupid, but you know..)

Thanks in advance!!!