Software
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a designer's best friend. The amount of tools and accessories that this program carries with it, is almost an unlimited list of awesome!
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/
Adobe Fireworks
Adobe Fireworks is a great tool to achieve what you can't in Photoshop, it's list of uses are almost as excessive as Photoshop, and some may even say that it is more customizable.
http://www.adobe.com/products/fireworks/
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office is a great package that includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook Express and OneNote.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/
AbiWord
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
http://www.abisource.com/
GIMP
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
http://www.gimp.org/
blender
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
http://www.blender.org/
Mozilla Firefox
With security, stability, speed and much more, Firefox is made for the way you use the Web. Free and easy to install.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html
Google Chrome
Google Chrome runs web pages and applications with lightning speed.
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/landing_chrome.html?hl=en
Tune-Up Utilities
Tune-Up utilities is a program that will help speed up your PC! It will De-fragment your hard drive(s) and run scheduled registry cleans.
http://store.tune-up.com
Adobe After Effects CS5
Whether you're working in broadcast and film or delivering work online and to mobile devices, Adobe® After Effects® CS5 software enables you to create groundbreaking motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects.
http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/aftereffects/
