I find myself using a number of OSes daily but for the OSes I use most, I have some favorite third party applications that I can't live without. Here are my application lists for Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac OS X and BeOS; applications I always download and install after a clean OS installation. Please tell us about your favorite third party apps you use on different OSes by using the provided comment section.
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Java
Freenet. I have to Check out Content of Evil.
Windows
Cd Ex or Exact Audio Copy For CD ripping
Lame (mp3) lossy encoding
Monkey's Audio lossless encoding(Might try FLAC or OptimFROG again).
TagScanner the Best and Easiest to use mp3 tag handler, better or as good as ArmyKnife for BeOS.
Kazaalite, MlDonkey, Shareaza, WinMX file trading
ASF Tools for treating stupid windows media files
Irfanview Image Viewer (it needs to know not to try to load mp3s and videos when I don't associate them)
Adaware gets rid of spyware crap
Mozilla The better browser TM
GIMP Image manipulation with a right click TM
WinRAR for zip and rar archives
AIM and yahoo instant messengers
Winamp for music
and Nero for CD creation and copying
NotepadEx Becasue MS Notepad sucks TM
VirtualDub, flask, Vidomi, and divx(and other codecs) for video conversion.
That's all I'll force you to read.
Now how about favorite websites?