I wanted to add a response to this
post on the best software apps ever made, but commenting rights on Lifehacker are Gmail-style invite-only. Can you imagine such a thing? I want to express myself, and the owner of the forum in which I wish to do so is asserting her right to limit my speech! Arrg, downright un-American. Anyway, just means that I'll have to post it on my own site and that's fine by me. So, as software goes, I'll try almost anything once. But these are the ones
that I download/bookmark first on a new machine. Not neccessarily the best, but the one's that make up my work toolbox. For the amount of time I spend tethered to the computer, I realized as I wrote it that it's an amazingly small list:
- Firefox
- Good ol' Microsoft Word (though I have started to use Writely for some tasks)
- Newsgator for reading RSS feeds
- Dreamweaver for HTML and such
- Fireworks for images
- Adobe Photoshop Album for organizing photos
- Flickr Uploader
- Real Rhapsody for music, with a monthly subscription
- Performancing, a blog editor for Firefox
- 37Signals' Ta-Da Lists for my to-dos
- Gmail for mail, with serious filtering and folders to keep it organized
- MSN Messenger (I tried Trillian, but it kept crashing on me)
- Groove Virtual Office for keeping some types of files handy
- The Invisibility Cloak extension for Firefox to keep me from Newsgator and Gmail first thing in the morning
- The BugMeNot extension for Firefox to bypass logins
- Synergy, to control both my laptop and desktop with one mouse and keyboard
- And, I admit, Outlook -- I'm a big fan task, notes, and the calendar
