Some of my favorite software

Free Software

• Cygwin - a Linux-like environment for Windows
• Ghostscript - view Postscript files and create PDFs for free
• iTunes - the best jukebox and online music store
• Keyhole - a whole new way of looking at the world
• Mozilla Firefox - the best browser for disenchanted IE users
• Opera - supposedly the most standards-compliant browser
• Picasa - second-to-none photo organizer and album generator
• PStill - a shareware PDF converter for Windows and Mac OS X
  
• PuTTY - Telnet and SSH with an xterm terminal emulator
• SciTE - a free source-code editor for Windows and X
• Webshots - desktop background image collection provider
• WinZip - handy utility for file and folder compression

Some of my favorite websites

News

• Google News - clusters stories from 1000's of news sources
• Reuters - a reliable news authority
• Scientific American - perhaps the best science news site
• Washington Post - well-respected news source
• Yahoo News - nice presentation, lots of photos

Shopping

• AddAll - best site for comparison book shopping
• Amazon - broadest selection, often the best prices
• CNET Shopper - comparison shop for computers & tech gadgets
• Froogle - trust the folks at Google to scour the web for deals
• PriceGrabber - powerful comparison shopping for tech stuff

Other Services

• CiteSeer - scientific literature digital library
• Free Fonts - the best free font collection online
• Google - there's still nothing else like it
• Google Maps - so long Mapquest...
  
• QuickTime - watch all the latest movie trailers
• USPS - search the official address database