VMware player is a great free tool for creating virtual machines and desktops. For instance, you can create a new virtual computer to install and test the new Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
Nice little program that enables you to close all your opened applications and windows with one single click. It works in Windows XP and Windows 7 and doesn't need installing.
Pixlr is a free and probably the best web based image editor. I will show you how to open and and resize an image, I'm sure you will be impressed how well the web app actually works.
RawTherapee is a free open source application for opening and editing RAW image files. It works on all major operating systems such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
If you are a heavy twitter use, possibly with more then one account, than I suggest you to give Tweetdeck a try. You can arrange, schedule, monitor and manage your tweets with ease.
FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging and manipulating files over computer network. We will use FileZilla software to build our own FTP server that actually works.