Applications and Utilities

LAN Party and Tournament Management

Simplify managing your events and tournament brackets.

• LanHUB
• TournamentHUB
• Challonge

IRC Clients

Oldschool and highly effective group instant messaging.

• Quassel - Dark and efficient. (Screenshot)
• X-Chat 2 for Windows - (Screenshot)

Voice Communication

Talk to your people.

• Mumble - Windows, Linux, Mac. Open source.

Text to Speech

Get your computer to read to you while you do something else!

• eSpeak

Text Editors

• Dark Room - Distraction-free writing. Windows only.
• JDark Room - Distraction-free writing. Windows, Linux, Mac.

BitTorrent Clients

Highly effective peer to peer file sharing.

• Deluge - Windows, Linux, Mac. Open source.
• Transmission - Linux and Mac only. Open source.
• qBittorrent - Windows, Linux, Mac. Open source.

Streaming Software

• FFSplit - Windows. Free.

Multimedia Players

• VLC - The best multimedia player on planet Earth. Windows, Linux, and Mac.
• WinAMP - Windows and Android.
• GOM Player - Based on VLC. For watching Starcraft on Korean TV.

Multimedia Conversion

• FFMPEG - The defacto cross platform standard. Command line.
• WinFF - FFMPEG GUI for Windows.

Code Editors

• Notepad++ - One of the best. Windows only.
• gEdit - Good cross platform alternative to Notepad++.
• SciTE - The editor based on the original component pretty much everyone uses.
• Sublime Text - Commercial but great. Code map feature.

FTP Clients

• FileZilla - Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Web Browsers

• Google Chrome - Fast. Comes with Flash built-in, so you will not need to install Adobe.
• Firefox - Mozilla's flagship browser.

Emulators

• bsnes - SNES and NES.
• DOSBox - Run DOS games and applications. Windows, Linux, Mac.
• Virtual Box - Run an OS in your OS.
• zsnes - SNES. Windows, Linux, Mac.

Other Software

• LibreOffice - Community fork of Open Office. The new standard since the Oracle takeover of Open Office.
• WinMerge - The utility for doing code or text document merges on Windows.