Rob Williams - Orangejack

A friend of mine just bought a Dell laptop off eBay cheap. She has no money and an MSN account. Another friend of mine is trying to get her new laptop setup cheaply.

It got me thinking...what are the free and/or inexpensive tools/downloads they should be checking out for protection, entertainment, and personal management?

I thought of some already such as:

• Yahoo's email, calendar, etc
• BackPack for organizing projects
• Flickr for photo sharing
• del.icio.us for web bookmarking
• Spybot for spyware
• Maybe OpenOffice for software?
  

That's all I can think of right now. What else can be added to the list?