Application Software I Frequently Use

Software is magic, software is the center of future personal life. Here is my list, on my WinXP PC, not including Windows' and Sony's own applications.

Office Tools
Microsoft Office Suite, all of them, including less used Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 and Microsoft Office Project 2003;
Microsoft 2007 Suite Beta 2 is in downloading ;-)
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional to create, browse and edit PDF files;
MathType for professional formula typing;
Microsoft Reader for its unique e-books files;
Super Star Reader for some Chinese online books;
WinRAR to compress and extract files;
Resume Divider to split and reassemble large files;
Weka-3-4 that still remains in my programmes as the data-mining package;
PowerWord 2005 to assist on my English;
Windows Optimizer to keep the whole Windows healthy, including Registry cleaning, garbage files cleaning, redundant DLL files cleaning and so forth;
Final Data Enterprise 2.0 to restore files accidentally deleted from the Recycle Bin or quick disk formatting;

Communication Tools
Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger;
Skype for PC calls, instant messaging as well;
Yahoo Messenger and Tencent QQ, though very little;
Microsoft Outlook for email, scheduling and task management;
SSH shell as the Telnet client (port number 22 right?);

Downloading Managers
FlashGet for normal downloading;
CuteFTP Professional for FTP transferring;
ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client) for BitTorrent sharing;
100bao and iMesh for P2P sharing as well;
Emule on VeryCD.com;
GMail Drive Shell Extension to drag and drop files to Gmail account in a simple explorer;

Music & Audio
iTunes for music library and PodCast management;
Cool Edit Pro 2.0 as the personal desktop studio;

Image Management & Processing
ACDSee 8, no PhotoShop please, this is enough;
ACD FotoSlate 3.0 for photo printing;
Hello for photo instant sharing and blogging;
Picasa 2 for more fancy photo needs;

Security Solutions
Rising Antivirus for detecting and cleaning virus;
Rising Personal Firewall to set up rules to filter packages for different applications;
高强度文件夹加密大师 for ultimate folder encryption and decryption;
PGP for email encryption;
BPS Spyware-Adware Remover to remove any *ware;
Rogers Yahoo! Online Protection as another set of security solutions;

Video Handling
Windows Media player + RealPlayer + QuickTime Player;
DivX Player for DivX movies;
K-Lite Codec Pack for all kinds of video codecs;
Vobsub to display and edit movie subtitles;
NO1 DVD Ripper to rip clips from DVDs;

Web Tools
The Macromedia Package for all web page magic;
Mozilla Firefox as the alternative browser;
Opera as another alternative;
WinHTTrack Website Copier for site downloading and offline browsing;
Ultrasurf to automatically find the proxies for browsing blocked sites;
intraVnews as the RSS reader embedded in Outlook;
1-Click Answers for quick Answers.com access;

Disc Tools
Nero 6.3 Pro to professionally burn all kinds of CDs and DVDs;
DVD Region Killer to damage your physical DVD Drive to accommodate a DVD movie disc with an unmatched region code...^0^;
InterVideo WinDVD 6 to handle DVD movies;
WinISO to create and extract ISO image files;
DAEMON Tools to create the virtual CD/DVD drive;
Partition Magic 8.0 to partition and reallocate hard disk space as wanted;

Games
RealArcade to browse its online games and manage all small games installed;
Parallel Port Joystick to simulate all kinds of complex joysticks on keyboard and mouse;
MAME32 & CALLUS95 to simulate all arcade games on PC that I played when I was a kid;
Other GigaByte PC Games;
3D Analyzer to change different graphic options under DirectX and OpenGL;

Peripherals
Lexmark Solution Center for the printer;
MpegTV Station USBTV to watch normal cable TV or receive analog video signals on PC;

And much much more...