I love flickr. It's great for sharing my photos, and for finding some wonderful imagery to support my posts (per creative commons licensing in most cases).
But I was bummed that I couldn't batch download my flickr photos to my local machine--until I found these utilities:
- GMAN: FlickrDown
- "Recently a friend started using Flickr which is a great service. I personally like to save pictures locally and selecting them one at a time to download was too much of a hassle so I whipped up this program so I could download them more easily."
- sunkencity.org: flickrbackup
- Flickr backup utility.
- Bulkr - Download Flickr photos in bulk (Mac, Windows & Linux)
 | How to Use Flickr: The Digital Photography Revolution - by Richard Giles |