Yes, but if you deal with images, which are not photos, then it can be useful. I've personally used it to force iPad to show manga images in right way.
I've created a small script which makes images to be shown sorted by name in iPad.
I've put it in mass-image-property-changer - Project Hosting on Google Code
You can download executable if you don't want to install perl and staff.
Here is how it works:
Copy images to specific folder...