This is a list of pretty good and totally free software. Some of it has annoying adware embedded. It's good for now but stuff changes almost daly.
Instant messenger - AIM, Yahoo, MSN/Windows Live, Myspace
http://pidgin.im
Web browser
http://getfirefox.com
E-mail/News client
http://getthunderbird.com
Calendar - choose Lightning if you have Thunderbird already, Sunbird if not. Gmail has an awesome calendar as well if you are a gmail user.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
Desktop Publishing
http://www.scribus.net
Color picker tool
http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Screenshot tool
http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
Microsoft Office replacement
http://www.openoffice.org
Photoshop replacement
http://getpaint.net or
http://www.gimp.org/windows/
Dreamweaver replacement
http://www.kompozer.net
FTP/SFTP file transfer
http://filezilla-project.org or
http://winscp.net
Illustrator replacement
http://inkscape.org
PDF reader
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
PDF creator - "print to PDF"
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Soundforge replacement
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Audio converter
http://www.bonkenc.org
Audio player/iTunes replacement
http://songbirdnest.com
CD/DVD burner
http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net
Video Player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Miro - downloads video off of youtube, google video, podcasts
http://getmiro.com
Bittorrent downloading
http://deluge-torrent.org or
http://azureus.sourceforge.net or
http://piratebay.org
Spyware removal
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Anti-virus
http://www.clamwin.com
WinZip/RAR/ISO replacement
http://www.izarc.org/download.html or
http://www.peazip.org
Additional stuff
NEW! NEW! http://www.killerstartups.com/
Web 2.0 apps http://www.go2web20.net/
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