Collection of Useful Softwares
Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections or unexpected power outages.
Audacity
Simple sound recording tool.

Paint.NET
Graphics editor with a very nice interface.
Mozilla Firefox
The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world's best browser.
Video Player, BitTorrent, Podcasting
Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than windows media player). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one.
Vector graphics application.
MPlayer
Similar to VLC-- plays loads of video formats.
VLC Player
Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime,AVI,DIVX,OGG,and more.Pretty good interface.
AbiWord
A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice.Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.;
Filezilla
Excellent FTP program.