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Audio/Video
- VLC Media Player – Cross platform do everything player
- Songbird – Open Source music player
- Audacity – Free Audio editor and recorder
Editors
- Notepad ++ editor – Fast light and does about everything a text editor needs to do
- PSPad editor – Do everything Unicode editor
Image tools
- Paint.NET image editor – Very nice Dot NET 2.0 image editor
- VisiPics – Find duplicate images on your hard drive by how they look
- Artweaver – Robust imaging tool
- The Gimp image editor – Photoshop for free – A serious editor
- Photo Story 3 – Make slide shows from digital images
- Windows Movie Maker – Nice little movie making app
Web and other tools
- Keep Pass – free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager
- Pidgin – Cross platform all IM client
- Filezilla FTP client – Solid easy to use FTP client
- PDFCreator – Works like Acrobat standard also includes encryption and password protection
- 7zip – Compression program that handles all formats