AbiWord is a stand alone word processor that is packed with features.
It is available for Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD or Solaris.
http://www.abisource.com
Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is an open source freeware utility that examines your Windows registry and returns the Product Key for Windows or MS Office.
Great for making a backup of the key if you have lost the original written copy.
It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, Office XP, [...]
Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulation game.
Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions by buiding a transport network you always dreamed of.
Planes, ships, trains, trams, trucks, busses and monorails are [...]
CDBurnerXP is a really versatile disc burning program.
It makes copying audio and data discs a breeze and just as simple to use to create audio or data discs.
If you have ISO files it will burn discs from them.
CDBurnerXP is also capable of burning lightscribe labels onto special lightscribe discs if your burner has this feature [...]
VLC media player from VideoLAN will play all sorts of audio and video formats including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg and FLV.
It is available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and BeOS.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
The free version of Express Burn does most things you would want when it comes to creating CDs. However the publishers give it away free to encourage you buy Express Burn Plus which has more features, especially DVD authoring ones.
Express Burn
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple and available in both Apple and Windows versions.
It’s look could either be described as elegant or sparse depending on your taste!
http://www.apple.com/safari/
ColorPic lets you find the colour value of pixels on your screen. It’s built in screen magnifier makes selecting pixels a breeze. Colours are shown in hex and decimal.
A really useful free tool for all artists and designers.
http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Cobian Backup is a neat little program to simplify and automate backing up your important files.
Here is what the author says about his program.
“Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer [...]
Notepad2 is a text editor like the Notepad program that comes with Windows but with useful extras.
It is much more geared towards programmers, with built-in syntax highlighting.
The latest version can be downloaded from http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html