Buzz: some useful tools.

1. Online backup $5/mo. http://mozy.com/news
2. Shared folders - free (for now). https://www.foldershare.com/
3. Remote control for sysadmin work, whatever - free. LogMeIn
4. Remote control - free. CrossLoop.
   
5. Painless VPN (great for tunneling games, CVS access, etc) - free. Hamachi
6. NetBeans - Eclipse really kicked it's ass, and they're learning. Better JEE, Swing support than Eclipse. http://www.netbeans.org/
7. Glassfish - Sun's best piece of software ever? https://glassfish.dev.java.net/
8. Google docs - free, zero install, Office collaboration. http://google.com/docs
9. Google reader - a very good rss aggregator. http://google.com/reader
   
10. The best blogging tool ever, scribefire. http://www.scribefire.com/
11. Some other stuff I haven't tried: CamStudio MWSnap

Some of these I found out about through friends, others through Slashdot, and still others through Extremetech and various miscellaneous online forums.