getting images?? Help!!

I have created a little image manager. Mainly for personal usage but I have a few friends that would like it as well. Anyway, the problem that I've run into is that I can only select one file at a time using the form attribute <input type="file"> that I want to upload. Does anyone know of a way to select multiple files using some other way? I haven't the slightest idea of how to go about this other than maybe Java or something. thanks