Digital art:
~ CorelDRAW 12 for vector art.
~ Photoshop 7/CS for bitmap art and image processing.
~ 3D Studio MAX 6 for 3D art.
Internet apps:
~ Moz. Firefox. What I liked the most is the extensions: they can turn your FF into the ultimate web browser in history
(GNU Freeware).
~ IE, because interactive sites (banks, online classes, forums, communities, portals and shit like that) don't work
with FF; there are also some sites that only look properly in ie.
~ Azureus, the best BT client. Heavy, but very reliable (GNU Freeware).
~ Shareaza, your best choice to download music (GNU Freeware).
~ WinMX to download music.
~ Soulseek to download music.
~ eMule++ to download any file (GNU Freeware).
~ Stream Down to download streaming media so you can see it properly on dial-up.
~ Flashget to download files via http/ftp.
~ Spybot SD and Ad-aware to delete spyware.
~ AceFTP.
~ Moz. Thunderbird to download pop3/imap mail.
Other:
~ IrfanView to browse thru pictures. Very light and much better than Image and Fax Viewer.
~ OpenOffice.org, the best office suite in my opinion. It's heavy, but not too little functions, not too much
functions like Office 2003, just fine (GNU Freeware).
~ Winamp 5.
~ ZoomPlayer to play video.
~ Xp Codec Pack. It allowed me to watch properly some NG Evangelion videos a friend passed me.
~ PowerArchiver and Winrar to handle compressed shit.
~ Nero, the best CD burner. If you're an unfortunate Roxio user (or worse: fucking RecordNow XP ), I order you to
get it no matter how!
~ Alcohol 120% to handle CD images. You can still get it on P2P programs.
~ PC Inspector File Recovery if you delete files accidentaly. Plus, it's the only free data recovery utility.
~ AVG as antivirus. It's free and, believe it or not, better than Norton!
~ Kerio Personal Firewall if you have broadband.