Stuff I Use
This page features a frequently updated list of applications, products and services I personally use on a regular basis. I was not paid for placement of anything on this list, they’re all things I personally find useful. If you have any suggestions about applications, products or services to try out or replace what I’m currently using, I’d love to hear about it!
Last updated 01-15-2010. Note: links+descriptions for everything coming soon.
Services
- Google Apps for my domain
- Google Voice
- Amazon S3
- MediaTemple (dv) 3.5 VPS with 3GB RAM
- 37signals Basecamp and Campfire
- Wufoo forms
- Giganews usenet access
- Skribit Pro account
- DirecPath fiber Internet connection — up to 95 megabits down
- AT&T for iPhone 3GS service
Software
- Fever RSS reader
- WordPress with custom modified Thesis theme for this blog
- TweetDeck (running 24/7 on Windows 7 PC)
- Safari 4 and Firefox 3.5 both used regularly.
- Google Chrome
- Browser Add-ons:
- Xmarks (bookmark syncing) for Firefox and Safari
- Feedly
- Firebug with YSlow, Firecookie, FireRainbow, Inline Code Finder
- Delicious Bookmarks
- ColorZilla
- Google Gears
- Geode
- hellafox
- Inquisitor
- S3 Firefox Organizer
- Searchbar Autosizer
- Shareaholic
- Ubiquity
- StumbleUpon
- Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OS X
- iCal
- iStat Menus
- Delibar
- TextExpander
- Fluid.app for GMail, Campfire, Github.com, TheSixtyOne.com, HypeM.com
- TextMate
- Transmit
- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks CS4
- Disk Inventory X
- Flux
- GitX
- hulu Desktop
- LittleSnapper
- TinyGrab
- MultiClutch
- Perian
- Growl
- Passenger Pref Pane
- AppZapper
- PGP Desktop
- Unison
- UnRarX
- MacPAR deLuxe
- Split & Concat
- The Unarchiver
- Microsoft Office 2008
- VMware Fusion with Ubuntu 9.10
- ScreenFlow
- Sequel Pro
- smcFanControl
- VLC Player
- xScope
- ExpanDrive
- uTorrent
Computer Setup
- 17-inch 2.8GHz MacBook Pro (Unibody) with 4 GB of RAM and 2x 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSDs in RAID 0
- Rokit RP5G2 Studio Monitors
- Dell 2407WFP 24-inch LCD display
- Shuttle SX58H7 with Core i7 920, 6GB of DDR3 RAM and 2×1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 hard drives in RAID 0, along with an ATi HD4890 video card
- Western Digital My Book Studio Edition 500GB hard drive (partitioned for Time Machine and a drive clone)
Hardware/Gadgets
- Samsung 50-inch “Touch of Red” Plasma HDTV
- Samsung HT-TZ512T 5.1 Surround Sound system
- AT&T 3G MicroCell
- Canon PowerShot SD990 IS Digital Elph (14.7 MP) with 8GB SD card
- Nikon D90 DSLR camera with 18-105mm VR lens and 8GB SD card
- Kodak Zi8 HD Pocket Video Camera with 32GB Patriot LX Class 10 SDHC card
- Roku Digital Video Player
- Vudu Box
- PlayStation 3
- Linksys WRT54G2 wireless router
- iPhone 3GS
