Google maps, google earth mashups, Yahoo! maps, and other cool map hacks - a photoset on Flickr. FlickrDown lets you archive all your Flickr photos. If you've ever had a hard drive die on you, or had your computer stolen, you've probably come to appreciate--and possibly have shaken your fist at--computer backup.
Bad things happen, which is what makes utilities like FlickrDown so darn useful. This small Windows application provides a simple way to pull down a large portion of your Flickr photos at a time. You just give it your Flickr credentials, pick which sets of photos you want to download and it does the rest--putting them in tightly organized file folders on your local machine. Sure you could just download the original of each shot from Flickr's pages, but that doesn't scale. The app requires at least version 2.0 of Microsoft's .NET runtime, which you might already have installed if you're a user of Paint.NET. FlickrDown. Flickr.com has decided to ban Flickrdown.
Their position is that Flickrdown can be used to download copyrighted images and is therefore bad. Of course this is ridiculous. Every browser can also be used to download copyrighted images and yet they don’t ban the browsers.