The Internet. What would we be without it? There is now talk of living your entire computing life through the browser your data, your applications, everything will eventually be online.
By introducing tabbed browsing, IE came back into a game that was quickly being taken over by alternative browsers, and is no longer frowned upon with as much asperity.
Firefox is the second most widely used browser ever, thanks to its near-unlimited extensibility and that wonderful feeling of being able to stick it to the big M.
Opera gives you a ridiculous number of options to enhance your productivity—every function can be accessed with ridiculous ease, so you’ll never have to take the long way round to do anything.
Like everything else Google, this IM client also has a minimalist interface that lets you concentrate on chatting.
For those who shun the default messengers, there’s Pidgin, which supports Google Talk, Yahoo!,Windows Live, IRC and other IM protocols
μTorrent is fast catching up as the BitTorrent client of choice—it’s light, it’s easy to use, and most importantly, does the job.
Vuze (which used to be Azureus) is now a “social” BitTorrent client with a bunch of community-enabled features, and also features the Vuze video service, which hosts movies, short films and video clips for all to enjoy.