The world's fastest and best overall web browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, awesome bar, and hundreds of free extensions.

Plays virtually any video file in a beautiful interface. Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from Tube sites.

Talk with anybody in the world for free using Skype. Buy some credits and you can call any phone number in the world, cheap.

Convert any type of video to mp4 or theora. Convert any video for use with iPhone, iPod, Android, etc. Very clean, easy to use interface.

A powerhouse of an IM client. Supports AOL IM, MSN, ICQ, and Yahoo as well as voice chats, file transfers and more.

Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, and Google Talk. 100% open source.

Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously, including: AOL IM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, and Google Talk. Beautiful, themable interface.

Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.

Incredible app with cult-like following. Quicksilver lets you start applications (and do just about everything) with a few quick taps of your fingers.

The closest you can get to Quicksilver on Windows.

MSE is Microsoft's own anti-virus tool. It's free, and it works.

Clean out spyware and adware. If your computer has lots of pop-ups and weird applications, run this immediately.

Uncompress RAR, 7zip, tar, and bz2 files on your Mac. Many new Mac users will be puzzled the first time they download a RAR file. Do them a favor and download UnRarX for them!

Solid cross-platform RSS client. Open-source.

Simple, solid rss client. Easy to use.

The slick integration of tabbed browsing makes this RSS reader our top pick for Mac users.

Very nice, native mac RSS client. Open source.

A simple, fast Bittorrent client that will download your files without slowing down your computer.

The community-based filesharing client. Still one of the best ways to find rare music online.

A simple, easy to use filesharing program. Gnutella network.

In addition to being a video player, it's currently the fastest torrent client on Mac. On Windows, comparable speeds to uTorrent.

Solid podcasting client.

Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.

The interface and buttons are not as nice, but it may play even more video files than VLC.

A plugin that allows quicktime to play additional video formats. (Included in Democracy Player.)

A lightweight, ad-free version of RealPlayer.

Liberate your iPhone or iPod touch to do things apple won't allow.

Get music off of your iPod onto any computer.

Very nice interface. Get music off of your iPod onto any computer.

DVD ripper and MPEG-4 / H.264 encoding. Very simple to use.

Burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs, and burn and create ISOs. Despite the name, it does work on Vista.

CD and DVD Burner. Burn any video to a disc that plays in your DVD player!

This TOR frontend keeps you anonymous on the web using military-grade techniques. For use with Firefox see: TorButton.

Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. Also supports OpenDocument Format.

Very fast and easy to use word processor. Live word count, autosaving, more.

A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.

'Print' to PDFs from any Windows program, just like God intended. Great for saving receipts, rebates, plane tickets, etc. 100% free and open source.

The best photo album for Windows. Lets you share photos too.

Open source photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features.

More native Mac version of GIMP.

Obvious choice, very corporate, but ultimately hard to beat as the best music player. Rip and burn CDs and download podcasts too.

The best wireless scanner for Mac. Find wireless access when you're on the go.

The 3D map of the world that just gets better and better...and creepier. Total must-have.

Simple sound recording and editing tool.

Run Windows on your Intel Mac at near native speed. Works on G4 / G5 Macs too, but much slower.

A popular FTP program.

Excellent FTP program. 100% free and open source.

Very good all-around ftp program.

Text / html editor.

Text / html editor. Integrates with Cyberduck for editing websites.

A "peer-to-peer" digital currency so you can buy things without paying transaction fees.

The most popular Windows IRC client.

Great IRC client.

A cross-platform IRC client that's free and open source.