Software Central

[FreezeWarp]

Here is a variety of software that can be very useful.

Pidgin (http://pidgin.im/)
For: Synchronizing Multiple IM Clients
Useful?: Very
Detailed Description: Pidgin is an all in one IM client. From this one window you can send and receive messages from various IM clients, such as Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, and several others.
Downloads: Windows (http://pidgin.im/download/windows/), Mac (http://www.pidgin.im/download/mac/), Ubuntu (http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/), Source (http://www.pidgin.im/download/source/)

Skype (http://www.skype.com/)
For: An Internet phone.
Useful?: Fairly, though not for people who don't want to pay phone bills.
Detailed Description: Skype acts as both an IM client and phone. You can call other skype accounts for free, or call mobile and land line phones for a few cents a minute.
Downloads: Windows (http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/downloading/), Mac (http://www.skype.com/download/skype/macosx/downloading/), Linux (http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/), Windows Mobile (http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windowsmobile/)

IZArc (http://www.izarc.org/)
For: Compressing/Uncompressing Files
Useful?: Very
Detailed Description: Can Compress or Uncompress almost any file type. Windows can only uncompress and compress the .zip type, this can do 100 times that!
Download: Windows (http://www.izarc.org/download/IZArc_Setup.exe)

Google Pack (http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html?hl=en&gl=us)
For: All kinds of things
Useful?: Very
Detailed Description: All kinds of software can be downloaded, you can choose what to download, it downloads it

Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/)
For: Web Browsing
Useful?: Very
Description: Firefox is what many think is by far the best browser around. Much more secure than Internet Explorer, and you have a world of addons to customize it like you want.
Download: Windows (http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0.0.13&os=win&lang=en-US), Linux (http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0.0.13&os=linux&lang=en-US), Mac (http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0.0.13&os=osx&lang=en-US)

Blender (http://www.blender.org/)
For: 3D Animation
Download: Windows (32 Bit) (http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/Blender2.48a/blender-2.48a-windows.exe), Windows (64 Bit) (http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/Blender2.48a/blender-2.48a-windows64.zip), Mac (Power PC) (http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/Blender2.48a/blender-2.48a-py2.3-OSX-powerpc.dmg), Mac (Intel) (http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/Blender2.48a/blender-2.48a-OSX-10.4-py2.3-intel.zip), Linux (32 Bit) (http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/Blender2.48a/blender-2.48a-linux-glibc236-py25-i386.tar.bz2), Linux (64 Bit) (http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/Blender2.48a/blender-2.48a-linux-glibc236-py25-x86_64.tar.bz2)

NotePad++
(http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm)For: Text Editing
Download: Windows (http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=95717&filename=npp.5.3.1.Installer.exe&a=20583972), Source (http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=95717&filename=npp.5.3.1.src.7z&a=52350770)

[DX-MON]

Could I add to this that:
7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) is very usefull as a multi-platform archive manager,
NotePad++ (http://notepadplus.sourceforge.net/) is a GREAT Notepad replacement
and Blender 3D (http://www.blender.org/) is usefull for 3D graphics, CG and CGI.

[FreezeWarp]

Could I add to this that:
7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) is very usefull as a multi-platform archive manager,
NotePad++ (http://notepadplus.sourceforge.net/) is a GREAT Notepad replacement
and Blender 3D (http://www.blender.org/) is usefull for 3D graphics, CG and CGI.

I've added the latter two. Thanks.