• SQLite is an open source software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine that runs on all platforms. It's also very fast. Rather than using fopen() to write XML or some proprietary format into disk files used by your application, use an SQLite database instead. You'll avoid having to write and troubleshoot a parser, your data will be more easily accessible and cross-platform, your updates will be transactional.
• GenControl: A simple desktop remote control program that can temporarily install VNC and connect to another machine on your domain in a matter of seconds.
• KeyPass Password Safe: Keep all of your Internet ID and passwords safe, even store them on your USB key and use on different computers.
• OpenDNS: Free Anti-Phishing and Content Filtering DNS
• Password Safe: Open Source secure password management program
• PassPack: Online web-based password management to store your passwords; never stores unencrypted information on their server and has an offline version.
• SpinRIte: Very useful utility that can restore data from bad hard drives, and can often make those drives reusable again -- bm
• UnisonFileSync: Unison is a an Open Source bidirectional file-synchronization tool for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

-- JeffreyThompson - 11 Jun 2007