Resources for translations and various ones
For the web:
Firefox brower
A light, quick and secure browser you can personalize with many extensions, thousands of modules allow you to personalize it as you like, hard to use another browser once you have tried Firefox. Free of course.
Thunderbird e-mail software
Thunderbird is ideal to select your mail and check out with its labels. It has an anti-spam, not perfect but rather effective. Free too.
Antivirus avast! 4 Familial
A version for individual use quite adequate if you are rather cautious, automatic update.
For office automation:
OpenOffice.org
Office automation including : Writer (Word processing), Calc (Spreadsheet), Draw (Drawing), Impress (Presentation), Math (Equations), Base (Data base), a quite complete and free set.
For translation assistance:
Google linguistic tools
Convenient to have a general view of a page.
Wordreference dictionary
English, French, Spanish and Italian dictionary, rather convenient with use of words.