Remember to install:

Stellarium – Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

AlwaySync – This helps keep my external hard drive in sync with my laptop

Picassa – Photo Organizer

Mozilla Firefox – My browser of choice

Google Toolbar – Such a great search tool that I don’t mind they are spying on me

SpySweeper – What keeps the spyware at bay. Hopefully

CCleaner – Crap Cleaner

Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer – So I can view the PowerPoint presentations people send me

OpenOffice – Because MSOffice makes me cry.

EyeFi – I don’t even know if my eyefi card still works but if it does– gotta load this baby.

Microsoft Money – I recently bought a copy although I’ve done nothing with it.

Rhapsody – I usually just go online anymore so it might not even make sense to download the actual software.

Norton 360 – Bastards automatically renewed my subscription so I might as well load it up and use it. I hate Norton! It’s supposed to guard against viruses but I swear it sucks all my system resources like a leach. I think it’s a virus.

AcrossLite – So I can do the NYT Crossword puzzles.

TomTom – The only way I find my way around… anywhere

GIMP – Because PhotoShop is too expensive

Netflix Movie Viewer – So one day I can sit and watch a movie on my computer, although that hasn’t happened yet.

Snipping Tool – Tom loaded this Snipping Tool icon onto my taskbar, I have no clue how he did it but I do love it and I suppose if I can’t figure it out, I can always invite him and Joan over for dinner and have him install it again.

DVDShrink – I used to use this program but it doesn’t seem to function correctly in Vista– so probably not worth the bother of loading.