Favorite Apps for Fresh Systems

Around the holiday’s there are lot’s and lots of new computers. If your frugal like me however, you just spend time reformatting and cleaning up instead of buying a whole new computer. After setting up my fair share of new systems over the past few weeks/years, there are some default apps that I load on systems to prepare them for use.

However not all apps are suited for everyone, these just happen to be the ones I can personally vouch for.

Windows (XP/Vista) -

Security Software:

• AVG Free (or if this is a VM Clamwin)
• Comodo Firewall (if you must have a fire wall)

Internet:

• Firefox
  • Adblock Plus
  • Adblock Filterset.G updater
  • IE Tab
  • Foxmarks
• Pidgin
  • OTR Messaging
• Thunderbird
• Deluge

Office:

• Go-OO
• PrimoPDF (Stay open source with PDFCreator)
• Foxit Reader

MultiMedia:

• VLC
• K-Light Codec Pack
• CDBurnerXP
• IMGBurn

Utilities:

• Peazip
• JKDefrag

Power Users:

• Nodepad++
• Putty
• WinSCP
• FileZilla
• Gimp
• UltraVNC
• VirtualBox

OS X

Internet:

• Firefox
  • Adblock Plus
  • Adblock Filterset.G update
  • Foxmarks
• Adium
• Thunderbird
• Transmission

Office:

• Go-OO
  

MultiMedia:

• VLC
• Perian
• Burn

Utilities:

• The Unarchiver

Power Users:

• CyberDuck
• VirtualBox

Linux (Most Flavors)-

Security Software:

• ClamAV (if your interacting with Windows computers)
• UFW/GUFW (Ubuntu Only as of now)

Internet:

• Most distros come with Firefox
  • Adblock Plus
  • Adblock Filterset.G updater
  • Foxmarks
• Thunderbird
• Deluge

MultiMedia:

• VLC
• K3b
• Amarok
• MPlayer

Utilities:

• FileZilla
• gFTP

Power Users:

• All Linux Users are Power Users
• VirtualBox
• GParted
• Conky
• GKrellM

So be sure to check out some of these apps weather or not your setting up a new machine. Leave some of your favorites below!