Personal Computer
Software that I use on my personal machines.
Free software
CD / DVD Burning software
Multimedia software
VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
Communications Software
Browser and E-mail
Firefox add-ons:
FireFTP
Download Status Bar
FTP clients
VoIP clients
IRC client
SSHv2 & SFTP
Utilities
Compression
Hardware Monitor
SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported.