Software I use daily

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Top rated application for web development.

Adobe Photoshop CS3

top rated application for image creation/manipulation

Media Monkey

Used to use Helium but recently switched to MM. Much faster and features have caught up to Helium. Very extensible with add on scripts and skins.

Faststone Image Viewer

Freeware but about as fast as it gets for image browsing and display. Will also do batch image conversion and enhancement.

Firefox Web Browser

Open source and free, this is the browser to use to surf the web. Really you need put IE in the trash where it belongs.

Thunderbird email Client

Again open source and free. If you are using Outlook all I can say is sad. Switch.

News Leacher

Nice usenet news download program. Accepts NZB files from the like of web sites like Newzbin.com and will download all part automatically, and decompress and assemble if you like.