If Picasa 3 web albums login keeps giving an error like this:

Login failed

Please check that you are connected to the internet, and that your internet connection is working properly.
If this problem persists and you contact support, please provide the following error code:

HttpOpenRequest failed (121570 - 
https:///www.google.con/accounts/ClientAuth [13]

You need to install wine.

sudo apt-get install wine

Then copy (overwrite) this wine dll file to picasa...

sudo cp /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/wine/wininet.dll.so /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/lib/wine

This should get it working.