From New Media Wiki
what tools/categories of tools are in the toolkit
TopTen tools
Browsers - Firefox, Internet Explorer
CD/DVD burning - Nero, Roxio, (not free) - CD Burner XP, ImgBurn (free)
DVD conversion (ripping) non-copy protected - Handbrake, Nero Recode, AutoGK (Gordian Knot), DVDFab HD Decrypter, AnyDVD
Screencasting - Camtasia (PC), Jing (PC, Mac, Linux), ScreenFlow (Mac)
Social Networks - Facebook, Ning
Social Networking tools - Del.icio.us, Flickr, YouTube, Bloglines
Video Sharing - YouTube, Blip.tv, Revver
Photo Sharing - Flickr, Photobucket, Picassa Web Albums
Research Tools - Zotero
Blogging - UMW Blogs, WordPress/(.com), Drupal, EduBlogs.org
Microblogging - Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, Pownce, Soup.io
Collaborative writing - MediaWiki, PBWiki, Wet Paint, Google Docs
Photo Editing - Windows Live Photo Gallery, Paint.Net and Picassa (PC only), Seashore (Mac), Picnik, FotoFlexer, and PXN8 (online editors)
Book Publishing - Lulu, Blurb
Audio Editing - Audacity (don't forget the LAME encoder for MP3s)
Video Conversion - Videora, Zamzar, Super
RSS feed readers - Google Reader, Bloglines, RSS in Plain English