Favourite Tools

Audio Visual Tools

Foobar2000 – my preferred audio player
Exact Audio Copy – the most reliable audio CD ripper
MP3 Tag – powerful tag editor
MP3 Gain – adjust and normalize gain on MP3 tracks
Audacity – free audio capture and editor
Virtual Dub – free video capture and editor

Productivity & Utilities

Notepad++ – free source code editor
xplorer 2 lite – much more flexible than Windows file explorer
Speedfan – monitor PC fan speeds and temperatures
Rainlendar 2 – desktop calendar and planner
CCleaner – removes crap and temp files on PC
Microsoft SyncToy – free synchronization tool from Microsoft
Windows Live Writer – offline blog writer from Microsoft
Zone Alarm – simple and effective personal software firewall
AVG Free – non-intrusive anti-virus
Ad-Aware – anti-spyware
a-squared – anti-spyware

Web Tools

Gmail – my preferred webmail
Google Reader – easy to use RSS feed aggregator
Google Docs – online word processor is surprisingly useful for simple documents and collaboration
Google Calendar – online calendar, can be shared and synced to iPhone
Evernote – webservice, mobile app and desktop app for syncing and collecting notes
Twitter – micro-blogging service
Facebook – the most popular social networking site in the world?
WordPress – free blogging, more flexible
Blogger – free blogging, more simple to use
Photobucket – online photo hosting
Tumblr - tumblelogs
Todoist – online to-do-list creation
xTimeline – timelines made simple
Last.FM -PC audio playback tracking and listening patterns