Here goes my list:
DropBox - http://www.getdropbox.com The first 2 GB are free. Then it is $99 for 50GB per year. With DropBox you're paying for 3 features. One is an offsite storage space for your files. Two is a syncing application to synchronize your files on multiple computers, and three, is a system to keep track of incremental changes which at first won't mean much if you aren't doing project related work.
IDrive - http://www.idrive.com Similar to DropBox. I am still comparing these. Both are great products. IDrive is cheaper... $4.95 a month for $150 GB. No costs for the versioned files.
PicasaWeb - http://picasaweb.google.com Awesome picture program for the PC and free picture online hosting for sharing with friends, families and blogs.
AxCrypt - http://www.axantum.com AxCrypt Great features like automatic re-encryption after modification, simple double-click to edit any file you encrypt. Love the integration with Explorer etc. Best of all it is GNU General Public License free software. If you like it, consider their Xecrets free service as well.
CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com Create professional quality PDF files from almost any printable document. FREE for personal, commercial, gov or edu use! It works great!
7-Zip - http://www.7-zip.org Free, open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats. This is a great utility.
ZoomIt - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx This is a must have screen zoom tool. Designed for presentations and it works AWESOME!
WinSnap - http://www.ntwind.com/software/winsnap.html WinSnap is a small enhancement utility for taking and editing screenshots. WinSnap Portable is a special version of WinSnap designed to run from removable media like a USB flash drive.
Although everything above this is Windows oriented, I must give a big pointer to some really great software that runs on the Apache/MySQL/PHP stack. Although these are not really personal use utility apps, some small to medium size business users will love this stuff!
XAMPP - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html New to AMP...just go get this. It is slick and it installs super friendly and just works. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. Many people know from their own experience that it's not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl. Just get this :)
Trellis Desk - http://www.accord5.com/trellis A free help desk application with intuitive UI and user friendly system. PHP and MySQL.
PureEdit - http://www.pureedit.com Simple easy to use Content Management System.
TiddlyWiki - http://www.tiddlywiki.com A little background to go with this one...I went to SD West 2005 and bumped into personal use of wiki's for the first time. I used FlexWiki at the time. It worked so great for keeping track of personal notes, the syntax was quick and easy to take bulleted notes during a session. So as I set up the new computer, I realized that I missed having that around. My search this time around came upon TiddlyWiki, a single file HTML wiki. It is self described as "a reusable non-linear personal web notebook". It just flat out works and works well. I like it. Try it out for a notebook. If you are graphically inclined then probably Microsoft OneNote is more up your alley.
Well that is all for this time
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