Programs You Can't Live Without

Sonique is a windows audio player capable of handling Microsoft Windows Media files, MP3 files, audio CDs, and more. It fuses a highly stylized aesthetic with a fluid, windowless interface and fully animated menu systems. Additional functionality includes a full-featured playlist editor, a variety of unique output visualization modes via plug-ins, and a robust control set featuring pitch, balance and amplification adjustment, as well as a 20-band equalizer with spline-based level adjustment. It supports many audio formats, including MP3, MP2, WAV, MOD, XM, IT, S3M, and CD audio and all MS Windows Media audio formats. Version 1.0 adds skin support, an improved MPEG Audio decoder, a contextual help system, full-screen visual mode and much more.

Litestep is one of the first shell replacements ever to be made and also has more themes than any other shell avalible. With Litestep you can have shortcuts on your desktop with sounds and animation on mouseovers. You also can use a wharf (a program launcher) and load choose from a plethora of modules, clocks, and other misc. fun stuff, it to is skinable. You have the option to have a titlebar and if you choose to do so you may skin that as well. Then there is your Virtual Window Manager (VWM), it lets you have many seperate desktops, giving you much more desktop space, removing clutter from it. Litestep is also faster than the default Windows95/98/NT shell and is also much more stabler. Other features of Litestep include transperency in skins, popup menus with sound and animation, and many other things.

3DFTP is a simple to use ftp client that supports skins and doesn't screw up, what more could you want? Check out thier site for the skinny.