| Web Browsing |
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| Chrome | A very simple, yet powerful and secure browser created by Google. |
| Firefox | A highly popular, fast, free web browser. |
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| Utilities: |
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| The Unarchiver | Uncompress tar, zip, rar and everything else. |
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| Video Playback: |
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| MPlayer | Can play almost all video formats. |
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| Word Processing/ Office Suites: |
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| LibreOffice | Full featured office suite with word, excel and powerpoint. Comparable to Microsoft Office. |
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| FTP: |
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| CyberDuck | A very good, free FTP program. |
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| Graphics: |
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| Gimp | Best free image manipulation program for Mac OS X |
| Inscape | Vector graphic editor |
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| Wifi Scanning: |
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| KisMac | Easily scan all wireless access points near you. |
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| HTML Editor: |
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| Nvu | HTML wysiwyg editor, comparable to Dreamweaver. |
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| Audio: |
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| Audacity | Simple, good audio recording tool |
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| CD Burning: |
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| Burn | Easily make CD and DVD videos playable in any DVD players. |
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| Encryption: |
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| TrueCrypt | Very good disk encryption software. |
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| Virtualization: |
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| VirtualBox | My favorite virtualization program, comparable to VMware. |
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| Personal Finance: |
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| GnuCash | Good financial manager application. |
