Well, I'd consider myself a common person... Lemme see...
Mozilla is my favorite program. I'm using it now!
I really like
OpenOffice; it has saved me lots of money.
Real VNC is a necessity for any household or business having Windows PCs in multiple locations.
My favorite dictionary is at the
Mirriam-Webster website. Lots of good stuff there.
My favorite utility for organizing my life is my
PDA.
And my favorite "utility" for learning about how to learn Java is
here.