Windows
Video Card Tweaking
ATITool - Allows you to fiddle with your radeon card.
General System Sensor and Overclocking tools
CPU-Z - Tells you things about your cpu that your bios won’t.
Sys Tool - Allows you to overclock almost everything but your case.
PowerStrip - optimize your display and GPU.
ClockGen - Quick way of overclocking your pc through windows.
Sandra 2005 - Probe your system for information, benchmark your components.
Throttle Watch - Detect throttling in your pc.
Speed Fan - Monitor your fans and adjust the voltage applied to them.
Game Session Recording Tools
FRAPS - record videos of your games, benchmark while playing games.
Game Server Bookmarking
HLSW - Bookmark gameservers you like, and find details of said servers.
System Utilities
Pagefile Defragmenter
Office
Open Office
Notepad++ Notepad, but with extra tools and such.
Programmer’s Notepad
Win32Pad
AbiWord
Shell Replacements (full)
LiteStep
Theming Programs
Boot Skin - Change the windows welcoming screen for the better.
WindowBlinds - Make your Desktop look all fancy,
Expanded Panels
Object Dock - Scrolling icon dock, similar to the Mac OS X, but with useful applications.
Online Antivirus scanners:
Panda Active Scan
Trendmicro Housecall
AntiVirus
AVGfree (recommended)
avast!
AntiSpyware
Spybot S&D (caution: it is possible to remove important system information with Spybot)
HijackThis (caution: it is possible to remove important system information with HijackThis)
Adaware
Ewido - from GRIsoft (recommended)
Graphics Editors:
Paint.NET
GIMPshop
Inkscape
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Xchat2 - Free and Legal Xchat Build.
HydraIRC
Instant Messengers
Trillian Basic
Gaim
Browsers
Mozilla Firefox - Recommended
Opera - Recommended
Maxthon
E-Mail Clients
Thunderbird
Outlook Express - Free with internet Explorer
Game Messaging Services
Xfire
Audio Editing
WavePad
Audacity
Media Players
Media Portal
Winamp
Foobar2000
JetAudio Basic, good Audio Player for windows
xmplay lightweight media player.
Codec Pack
K-Lite
BitTorrent Clients:
BitComet
uTorrent
Multiple Monitor Utilities
Multimon
FTP programs:
FileZilla
SmartFTP
3D Rendering Programs:
Blender
Linux:
Web Browsers:
Mozilla Firefox
Flock
Opera
Email Clients:
Mozilla Thunderbird
Graphics Editors:
The GIMP
Inkscape
Instant Messaging:
Gaim
Compilers:
GCC/G++
Productivity Suites
Open Office
Music Players/Downloaders:
amaroK
BitTorrent Clients:
BitTornado
Azureus
Mac OSx
Web Browsers
Shiira
Firefox
Safari - Recommended
Flock Browser
E-Mail Clients
Thunderbird
Mail.app - Recommended
Media Players
VLC Player
Flip4Mac
Anti-Virus
ClamXav
Music Players
iTunes
Graphic Editors
GIMPshop - Recommended
The GIMP
Office
NeoOffice
FTP
Fetch FTP - 15 day trial, with nag screens afterwards.
One Button FTP – Advanced users only
FireFTP – Firefox Extension
