ACDSee or IrfanView are pretty fast and useful
Winamp

The GIMP (open-source image manipulation)
Limewire (preferable to soulseek?)
Skype

google earth and/or google pack with earth, picasa, desktop etc.

10. Ibanez Musician
9. Yamaha BB (original)
8. Wal Pro Bass
7. Hofner 500/1
6. Rickenbacker 4001 (now 4003)
5. Gibson Thunderbird IV
4. Musicman Stingray
3. G&L L-1000
2. Fender Jazz Bass
1. Fender Precision Bass

WinRar
CoreFTP
Alcohol 120
ISOBuster
Tweak UI
WinShade
Google Earth
Trillian
NTI CD/DVD maker
Microsoft .Net framework

no itunes. songbird instead.

Does anyone know of a decent Text recognition/OCR freeware for scanned documents?

Also what do people use for organising photo's (preferably something that allows multiple codings/categorisation, and viewing by category, date, size, name, etc.)

If you have enough memory for a desktop search engine:

Copernicus

any suggestions for object docks or similar programs

?

I think a vintage copy of Leisure Suit LarryM is a must

any motion screen capture software

Screen Motion Capture - FrontCam
http://www.tomdownload.com/multimedia_design/video/frontcam.htm

azureus...bittorent software

Azureus yes, along with TorrentSpy

There is always Object Dock

Ccleaner
Picasa
VLC player
Open Office
filezilla
7-zip
AVG Free Edition Virus Scan
Hamachi
Real VNC
Nimiq, Fireant, Ipodder, Podspider (podcast client....of course you could use Itunes)
NVU
Blender 3d
Notepad2
Azureus
Real alternative
Java Runtime Engine
Flash Player
Shockwave Player
Thunderbird (with calendar extension)

All the above are free. Also check out the OpenCD project.



Oh, and I didn't think Songbird was out yet. Besides, it will only be a proof of concept, not even beta.

if you don't like to install ocr software to your computer, you can try this free online ocr tool to extract text from image

Just use this

https://ninite.com/