Application	URL	Remarks
Total Commander	www.ghisler.com	Formerly called Windows Commander, this is quite simply the best file and disk management utility around. Everything you could possibly need is built in (including support for FTP, zipping/unzipping, file/directory comparison and much more). This is what Windows Explorer should have been!
Crimson Editor	www.crimsoneditor.com	My favourite text editor - intuitive, powerful and totally free. It is small and fast but provides every feature you need for editing text documents of any kind (even column editing/manipulation). Quite a lot of this website was hand-coded in HTML and JavaScript using Crimson Editor.
Avast!	www.avast.com	A comprehensive, sophisticated and secure anti-virus application. It is free, yet a lot more reliable and far easier to use than some commercial products whose names I shan't mention here.
IrfanView	www.irfanview.com	A good, free graphics utility that can be used to edit and manipulate files in virtually any kind of image format. Uses a very intuitive technique for cutting bits of a picture out and filling in the blank space with colours from other parts of the image. You can also convert from one format to another (for example, open a BMP and save it as a JPG).
PhotoScape	www.photoscape.org	An outstanding, free graphics utility for editing, manipulating and resizing photographs. It shows you the file size (in kilobytes) of your edited image before it is saved on disk, thus allowing you to edit it further if the size is too big or small. PhotoScape is the best tool I've found for saving high quality images in as small a file size as possible (which is what you need when publishing photographs on the internet). It has a rather unusual interface but is well worth getting used to.
CutePDF Writer	www.cutepdf.com	A free utility that allows you to create PDF files from any printable document. It is installed as a virtual printer so that when you print something you can choose the CutePDF "printer" as the target - rather than actually printing it creates a PDF which you can then save on your hard drive.
FireFox	www.firefox.com	The best web browser around, regardless of what Google or Microsoft may say about "Chrome" and "Internet Explorer".
Google Talk	www.google.com	A fast, simple and free instant messaging client. It is linked to GMail, Google's popular web email system.
WinMerge	www.winmerge.org	An excellent, free utility for comparing and merging the contents of files and directories.
Compu-Sport	PaulKilfoil.webs.com	An application for recording of sports results and data. It is unique in that it supports cricket (all formats), rugby union, soccer, tennis and formula 1 straight out of the box. A full database of results for the South African national team is included, as well as all tennis grand slams and formula 1 Grands Prix.