During April 2009 WELSTech listeners submitted their “Top 5 Desert Island Software Picks”, software titles they wouldn’t want to live without – free or fee, desktop or Web 2.0.  Here’s the compiled list of all of the submissions.

Audio Video

• Audacity
• iSquint
• iTunes
• Microsoft Expression Encoder
• Pandora
• Pandora Sidebar Gadget for Windows Vista
• Subtitle Workshop
• WavPad Sound Editor
• Xilisoft Video Converter

Browser

• Firefox

Education

• EZGrade Pro
• SMART Board Notebook 10

Image

• GIMP
• Paint.net

Maps

• FlashEarth.com

Mobile

• Google Voice
• iPhone
• MobileMe
• Skype

Network

• Hamachi
• UltraVNC
• VMWare Workstation/Fusion

Office

• Freemind
• Google Calendar
• Open Office
• Propresenter
• Thunderbird

RSS

• Google Reader
  • Google Reader in Plain English
• NetNewsWire
• SharpReader

Search

• BibleGateway
• Google

Social

• Adium
• Delicious
• Facebook
  • Victory of the Lamb Lutheran Church on Facebook
• TweetDeck

Utility

• CCleaner
• Evernote
• Growl
• iStat
• Notepad
• VIM

Web 2.0

• Google Apps