Here's a great program for automatically downloading pictures from a digital camera to your computer. It can do things like rename the files, move them to a directory structure based on the year, etc. It sounds like it should work really well, I'm going to try it this weekend.
More software for this evening. This time it's a free image/photo editor. It doesn't do everything under the sun, that's what Photoshop is for, but for people who want to do touch-ups and other simple things this one could be great.
If you're sick of the nagging popups from using Winzip or something similar you might like to try FilZip. Its completely free and has some nice features. Because I'm (once again) in charge of workstation management at work I'm going to have us standardize on this instead of WinZip. Give it a try.
We're not into the insanely syrupy (cavity-creating, brain-numbing) sweetness that is the modern Disney, but in case you need your daily dose they have released a free online game you can play with people around the world.