"Flickr Backup is a Java application that allows you do download your photos and back them up to your harddrive or to media. This is useful if your local harddrive goes bad and you don't have a current backup...."
"...whenever you see a web service that you can invoke with a simple HTTP GET, remember that XSLT processors can do GETs... Creating client applications that take full advantage of these web services may require no more technology than XSLT 1.0."