Freeware Apps

Firefox: Different web browser; has a number of nice features.
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

WiSi - Window Sizer: Little app that lets you set the size of any window to a specific size - handy for screenshots or checking if a website will look OK at specific resolutions.
www.fantastic-bits.de (Not a direct link; find it under Freeware: Desktop.)

AnalogX WhoIs ULTRA: Little app that checks WHOIS records for given domains.
www.analogx.com (Not a direct link; find it under Software: Network.)

Snadboy Revelation 2: Drag the target over a ***** password in software and Revelation will tell you what it is. Some more recent software (and many websites) will obfuscate further to stop this trick working, but this little app remains exceptionally useful.
www.snadboy.com

Audacity: Excellent audio editing application.
audacity.sourceforge.net

Commercial / Shareware Apps

Directory Opus: Advanced Windows file manager with Amiga roots. Does FTP. Customisable. Uses tabs. I cannot bear using Windows without it. Extra non-essential features include image resizing and a reasonable find duplicates app. Linux equivalents of earlier versions are easy to find, but I can’t see anything resembling this latest incarnation. Indeed, this app is one of the main reasons I haven’t switched. Payware, but worth it.
www.gpsoft.com.au

Tag&Rename: Bulk MP3 ID3 tag and filename editor. Shareware, but worth it.
www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

I’m definitely shifting towards free software.

WinZip: I had a paid legal key, it lasted me years, I was happy. Then they went and decided that they’d do some major version upgrade, which was rubbish, and ask for money again. So hello 7Zip.

PocoMail: Cute customisable e-mail client, immune from viruses. Shareware. If I was more serious about email then I would find this software more useful. There’s a a powerful scripting engine for filing and even responding to mail. However, it’s now easier and cheaper for me to use Thunderbird. Most personal mail runs through GMail these days anyway.
www.pocomail.com

Goldwave: Excellent audio editing application. Again, shareware. My paid legal key may even still be valid on this one, but I didn’t have it to hand when I needed audio-editing on a new PC and so I tried Audacity.
www.goldwave.com

FileHound: Preferred file downloader for many years, now usurped by Firefox extension DownThemAll!
www.allabout.com/afs/software/filehound