Alex mentioned, in email, that he'd find it useful to have a program to pull the embedded JPEG image out of a RAW file, downsized to half size (for creating proof sheets, etc.).
I have created just such a program, and it occured to me that this might be of interest to a few more *ist-D owners. If you want it, the source (plus a Windows console executable) can be found at <http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/halfsize.zip> Usage is fairly straghtforward: halfsize <input-file> [<output-file>: defaults to halfsize.jpg] The source is just there so you can see what it is doing; in order to be able to build it yourself you'd need my TiffSubs class library as well as libtiff, libjpeg, and libpng.
