Here's some software we use and recommend:
- Open Office - almost as good as MS Office, and free. Great PDF / XML faciliies too. Available for Windows, Linux, and more..
- Firefox - It's fast. It works. It likes your CSS.
- Opera - It's even faster (maybe) and, err, works.
- Internet Explorer - most 'normal' people use it ok?
- FeedDemon
- FTP Voyager
- Topstyle Pro 3.11
- Paint Shop Pro
- Xara X
- Quicken Deluxe
- FileZilla
- TextPad - "it's just so damned good" - NickB, 2004.
- Quickzip - Windows users; open .tar and tar.bz files as well as .zip files and others
- Shorewall Firewall - Great Linux firewall. Very easy to set up and maintain.
- Fanurio - Time tracking and billing software for freelancers.
- winscp - scp and sFTP gui for windows]
- putty - A Free Telnet/SSH Client