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