I got a note from a shareware programmer friend of mine last week. Had a chance to review it at length a few minutes ago, and it's definitely something worth sharing. Here's “Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery”:

Basically, it's a simple wizard-like tool that will hopefully save some people a lot of grief this holiday season. It can read virtually all memory cards available on the market (actually it can also recover images from scratched CDs and DVDs but we're not really advertising that since we didn't test that part extensively). Digital Photo Recovery can recover JPG, TIFF and some RAW files from accidentally deleted or formatted cards. It can read files even from corrupted cards that Windows can't recognize.

And yes, Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery is freeware. Download it now before you need it, m'kay? Digital photos are too precious to lose… which is why the world stopped using Mavicas.