Best Applications

[Gwen]

What are the best application that made computing in general easier, from gaming to coding, sound production to voice editing.
I'll edit this post weekly/daily to update the list. Check if someone has posted your Application. Thanks for reading :P

f.lux: For those who stay up late, it'll really take the strain off your eyes
Steam: Basically needed gaming Store/Library
Skype: Great use of communication (Can be quite buggy at times)
Google Chrome/Firefox: Face it IE is not amazing and times change :P
Daemon Tools Lite: Great ISO mounting tool
Torch: A modified Chrome Browser
Update (20/02/13)
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Audacity - awesome free audio editor
Gimp - Free photoshop alternative
Openoffice.org - Free MS office alternative
µTorrent - Bittorrent program
Malwarebytes Anti-malware - Free anti-malware/anti-spyware/anti-adware software
Avast! Free antivirus - Free antivirus!
WinRAR - .rar extractor, also extracts many other formats
Google drive - Ohhh I love google drive + docs.
Game booster - Now owned by Razer, basically quits any resource-hungry programs running in your background
Rainmeter - Customize your desktop with widgets and crap like that lol
Xfire - Basically MSN for gamers, not really used more because steam replaced it
CCleaner - removes temp files, registry cleaner (not recommended though), etc - awesome program
Defraggler - Made by same people that made CCleaner (Piriform), a great disk defragger
Comodo firewall - replaces Windows firewall, works great!
Coretemp - shows cpu temps, and enables tray setting to view temps in the bottom tray
Display fusion - use multiple monitors and set different wallpapers, apply taskbars to each one, etc.
EaseUS data recovery - this has saved my ass, multiple times when old drives had data corrupted.
Glary utilities - the only decent registry cleaner/defragger and tune up software that doesn't cause much harm.
Magic disk - When you have ISO files, but no the actual disk... installs a virtual disk so you can mount ISOs as if you had the disk
mIRC - IRC Client, nothing super special here. Does what it needs to do.
Notepad++ - for those coders/modders who want a more advanced program to edit files.
Rocketdock - a dock you can put anywhere on your desktop, sorta like the mac one.. but more customizable.
Sketchup - basically free autocad, with a few limitations.
Speccy - shows all your detailed information of the components of your PC. Great if you like to show off your rig.
TightVNC - Remote desktop tool (VNC), it's free, has a few useful features.
VMWare - Run a virtual machine, so run windows inside of windows ! (or linux, kalyway, whatever)
BIG THANKS TO BLUEEYES FOR HELPING
Microsoft Office (I prefer it to other Office Suites)
Corel VideoStudio (because Ulead was shit, so they made this)
Java (for Minecraft)
Minecraft
In The Groove/Stepmania (Either do the same job)
MotionInJoy
Dropbox
VLC Media Player (It's so versatile I love it.)
Safari - best browser on the Mac
iTunes - its great to have all my media organized
Virtualbox
adium
Handbrake

Update (21/02/13)
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The GNU Compiler Collection(GCC) -- The only compiler I use for serious things
Perl -- When you don't want to write that trivial task in C
Vim -- The best editor for most things
KDevelop 4 -- A great IDE for C++
Qt Creator -- Combines interface design and code into one IDE
Ogre3D -- So far the best free software(in the GNU sense) graphics framework I've found
Konsole -- De facto on KDE
Mercurial -- Better than Git and like Subversion, what more could I ask for?
NetBeans -- when I have to do something in Java
Amarok -- A good audio player for the KDE desktop
LibreOffice -- Used exclusively for document editing
Kopete -- Chat program
KGpg -- Encryption of sensitive things
Firefox -- works pretty well on GNU/Linux
KPatience -- can't always be hard at work, now can we?

[Blueeyes]

F.lux looks really cool.
Heres a few I use:

Audacity - awesome free audio editor
Gimp - Free photoshop alternative
Openoffice.org - Free MS office alternative
µTorrent - Bittorrent program
Malwarebytes Anti-malware - Free anti-malware/anti-spyware/anti-adware software
Avast! Free antivirus - Free antivirus!
WinRAR - .rar extractor, also extracts many other formats
Google drive - Ohhh I love google drive + docs.
Game booster - Now owned by Razer, basically quits any resource-hungry programs running in your background
Rainmeter - Customize your desktop with widgets and crap like that lol
Xfire - Basically MSN for gamers, not really used more because steam replaced it

[Rayquaza]

Skype (First VoIP program I ever installed, years back)
Microsoft Office (I prefer it to other Office Suites)
Corel VideoStudio (because Ulead was shit, so they made this)
Chrome/Firefox (Generally switch between the two. Firefox seems more trustworthy IMO)
Java (for Minecraft)
Minecraft
In The Groove/Stepmania (Either do the same job)
MotionInJoy
Dropbox
VLC Media Player (It's so versatile I love it.)

[Blueeyes]

Now that I'm on my main pc, I will go through the top software I have and like....

CCleaner - removes temp files, registry cleaner (not recommended though), etc - awesome program
Defraggler - Made by same people that made CCleaner (Piriform), a great disk defragger
Comodo firewall - replaces Windows firewall, works great!
Coretemp - shows cpu temps, and enables tray setting to view temps in the bottom tray
Display fusion - use multiple monitors and set different wallpapers, apply taskbars to each one, etc.
EaseUS data recovery - this has saved my ass, multiple times when old drives had data corrupted.
Glary utilities - the only decent registry cleaner/defragger and tune up software that doesn't cause much harm.
Magic disk - When you have ISO files, but no the actual disk... installs a virtual disk so you can mount ISOs as if you had the disk
mIRC - IRC Client, nothing super special here. Does what it needs to do.
Notepad++ - for those coders/modders who want a more advanced program to edit files.
Rocketdock - a dock you can put anywhere on your desktop, sorta like the mac one.. but more customizable.
Sketchup - basically free autocad, with a few limitations.
Speccy - shows all your detailed information of the components of your PC. Great if you like to show off your rig.
TightVNC - Remote desktop tool (VNC), it's free, has a few useful features.
VMWare - Run a virtual machine, so run windows inside of windows ! :D (or linux, kalyway, whatever)

[Hypers]

Safari - best browser on the Mac
Minecraft
iTunes - its great to have all my media organized
uTorrent
Handbrake
VLC
Virtualbox
adium

[Gwen]

Thanks for all the contribution, a helpful thing you could add maybe a description of what it does.

[TheMatrix]

The KDE desktop environment -- one of the best you'll find on GNU/Linux

For programming:

The GNU Compiler Collection(GCC) -- The only compiler I use for serious things
Perl -- When you don't want to write that trivial task in C
Vim -- The best editor for most things
KDevelop 4 -- A great IDE for C++
Qt Creator -- Combines interface design and code into one IDE
Ogre3D -- So far the best free software(in the GNU sense) graphics framework I've found
Konsole -- De facto on KDE
Mercurial -- Better than Git and like Subversion, what more could I ask for?
NetBeans -- when I have to do something in Java


For general end-user stuff:

Amarok -- A good audio player for the KDE desktop
LibreOffice -- Used exclusively for document editing
Kopete -- Chat program
KGpg -- Encryption of sensitive things
Firefox -- works pretty well on GNU/Linux
KPatience -- can't always be hard at work, now can we?


And there's probably more that I can't think of right now.