Software
Utilities
PDF Tools
PDFCreator: Opensource PDF creator tool. Adds a virtual printer that outputs a PDF file. Nice becuase this one is OpenSource and is actively developed. (Windows)
wkhtmltopdf: “Simple shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.” This is a wonderfull tool to give you exactly what you see in a browser as a PDF file. Most HTML 2 PDF tools have their own rendering engine so support for CSS, javascript and other tags is spotty at best. This is the best OpenSource tool I’ve seen for rending HTML as PDF accurately. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Multimedia
Images / Photos
zscreen is a Windows only screen shot application. Gives you quite a bit of control and allows you to do things like pick a section to capture rather than a entire app or screen. (Windows)
The Gimp - It’s a complete photo and image editing application. It can open and save as Photoshop files and has all the same Photoshop features I liked, but the interface is different than Photoshops. (Windows, Mac, Linux).
Watch Video’s and Music
VLC – VideoLAN project’s media player. It’s the best overall media player I’ve found, it plays about every kind of media file I through at it, does DVD’s, play’s stream, etc. It even works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Boxee – Media Center application that is designed to be worked from a remote or mouse. It’s simple and easy to use. It allows you to play local files, youtube, hulu, and dozens of other sites by default. There is even a iPhone app which finds and controls Boxee from your iPhone, very cool. (Windows, Mac, and Linux)
Internet
Chat
xchat – IRC client. I’ve used dozens of IRC applications over the years and I’ve yet to find one that’s a simple and powerful as xchat. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
pidgin – Killer Instant Messanger client that talks to every IM service known to man. Linux only as far as I know.
