Software
I drew up a list of all software I most frequently use for when I had to do a full re-install on one of my computers… so here is:
Editing
MikTeX (http://miktex.org/)
LyX (http://www.lyx.org/)
WinShell (http://www.winshell.de/)
JabRef (http://jabref.sourceforge.net/)
Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus-plus.org/)
Statistics
Stata (http://www.stata.com/)
Octave (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/)
R (http://www.r-project.org/)
Bookmarklets / Addons / Extensions
Instapaper (http://www.instapaper.com/extras)
Twitter Share Bookmarklet (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/share_bookmarklet)
Bookmark on Delicious (http://www.delicious.com/help/bookmarklets)
Subscribe to Feed on Google Reader (http://www.pcworld.com)
Gmail this (http://email.about.com)
Adblock Plus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus)
Languages / Dictionaries
ImTranslator (http://imtranslator.net/ff-plugin.asp)
WordWeb (http://wordweb.info/free/)
Lexibase Pro Collins French-English (http://www.lec.com)
LingoPad German-English (http://www.ego4u.de/de/lingopad)
Communication / Pictures / Music
Skype (http://www.skype.com)
Paint.net (http://paint.net/)
VLC media player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/)
Utilities / Productivity tools
Quick Pause (http://www.quickpause.com)
Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com)
RescueTime (http://www.rescuetime.com)
SyncBack (http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/)
WinMerge (http://winmerge.org/)
CSDiff (http://www.componentsoftware.com/Products/CSDiff/)
Personal Reminder (http://www.mecasa-software.com/win/index.html)
ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/)
Browsers / Readers / Scrapers
Mozilla Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com)
Google Chrome (http://www.google.com/chrome)
IHT Reader (http://ihtreader.nytimes.com)
Sumatra PDF (http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html)
Publish or Perish (http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm)
ScreenScraper (http://screen-scraper.com/)
Chess
Shredder Classic (http://www.shredderchess.com/)
BabasChess (http://www.babaschess.net/)
Mobile Chess (http://www.chess-wizard.com/mobile.htm#mobile)
Mobile Chess Board (http://www.gjlay.de/MobileChessBoard/)
Lucas Chess (http://lucaschess.host22.com/)
