My life revolves around technology and I can say that a few of the greast programs and websites I have used are:
www.logmein.com - Great for remote use when i'm out of school and need to work on animation only place that has the program is in school
www.theopendisc.com- great for all of the open source programs taht are on that covers everything from web browsing to coding
gmail.com -this is a great free email host by the owner of the internet
Mozilla Thunderbird - Great program for RSS feeds can store a great amount of new news in one program. saves me from running from website to website morning.
Google Chrome - This is a great new web browser host by google. the thing i like the most about it is how it stores the websites that you where on incase the computer crash or restarts (tends to happen alot here)
If I think of more I'll post them but they are all awsome programs and free to use