| Comodo Personal Firewall has replaced my ZoneAlarm ever since ZA's last update. Comodo gives me the clean, simple and effective protection ZA used to give. |
| AVG Free does everything the big boys do with regular signature updates and realtime monitoring. What more do you need for anti-virus? Trouble-free updates. That's why I've switched to Avast since AVG Free went to 7.5 |
| Firefox 2 is by far the ideal replacement for Internet Explorer. Enjoy a fast, feature-rich browser that seems to avoid the code terrorism afflicting IE every day. |
| K-Meleon is what you need when Firefox wants to force you to Firefox 3 and you'd rather invest in a lean and fast browser. Enjoy an even faster, feature-rich browser that gives you all you could hope for and more. |
| Thunderbird does for Outlook what Firefox does for IE. Just as for Firefox, Thunderbird provides a vast number of add-ons to customise the e-mail client to your requirements. |
| Extract Now does what you need from WinZip and WinRar, only more, and it's still freeware. |
| Audacity has become the central tool of my radio broadcast programming, allowing me to edit and combine my recorded interviews, sound bites and music into one track for broadcasting - it does it all! |
| VLC Media Player has taken over where Windows Media Player and Quintessential Media Player used to handle things. Now, while the others fall over looking for codecs, VLC just keeps working. |
| uTorrent takes care of any filesharing I need without the resource hogging or feature bloat of its competitors, and it does it fast. |
| Core FTP LE has a commercial big brother but this LE version does all the file transferring I need in a clean and intuitive GUI. |
| Pidgin replaces my Trillion which replaced my Messenger. For a long time I believed Trillion to be unique as a multi protocol messaging client but Pidgin does more and better. |
| CCleaner Every so often some nasty website throws something at me that makes my Internet connection fail the next time I try to get on. A quick run of CCleaner and it cleans up my caches of cookies and other nasties as well as cleanse my registry, and I'm back on in just a few seconds. Priceless! |
| Spybot - Search & Destroy The perfect companion to AVG Free, Spybot watches for trojans and malicious activity, providing double protection. It does both the watching and the scanning on demand. Another must-have. |
| The Counter Terrorist Steganography Search Engine is by far my most widely acclaimed software project, referenced in several other academic and technology papers and articles. |