I retired from personal blogging in July 2008 but you can find me over at blog.xero.com

Tech in use
Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Old-blog-archives at 9:44 pm on Friday, 11 April 2008

Here’s what I’m using. Suggestions welcome.

Laptop
MacBook Air Sexy small notebook. 2GB Ram. 80GB HDD version. Gone to new Mac Book. 250 GB HDD. Liked the new video card and needed the space. New Air too expensive.
Dell 24″ Monitor Max the MacBook/MacBook Air will use. 1920×1200 (I have 3 of these - scattered wherever I do work)
Office for Mac Best way to run Office
Newsgator - NetNewsWire Software + Services RSS reader. Syncs with Blackberry. Now Free.
Google Notifier Finally works for hosted domains
OmniGraffle Drawing\Diagramming. Nicer than Visio, but takes a bit to learn where everything is.
What Size? Find your big files on the Mac and free up some space
Twitterrific Twitter client

Services
Gmail for Domains No brainer - everyone should have this
Flickr PhotoSharing
WordPress Great Blogging software. Hosted at DreamHost. . Upgraded to 2.5 (March 08)
FeedBurner For tracking site subscriptions
PlanHQ Keeping track of goals and actions across the team
Twitter What are you doing?
Xero Of course

Gadgets
Shure E3c headphones Great sound, can sleep with em. Replacement for Bose.
Blackberry Bold Superphone
Sony T9 Digital Camera Keep it in your case sized Digital Camera. (I am looking for a GPS phone for iPhoto)
iPod Touch Not an iPod, a wireless social tablet
AppleTV Photo’s in the lounge
Jawbone Bluetooth headset from Diehard 4.0
TV Stack Samsung Blu-Ray BDP-14 + Samsung 46″ 1080p + Onkyo TX-SR705 Receiver
MySky + Old Sky + Freeview

Blackberry Software
GMail Mobile Access to Gmail from BB
Google Maps Getting better all the time
Newsgator Go Stay in sync with RSS
TwitterBerry What are you doing? - from anywhere
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Comments(2)

    Comment by Phil Gerard at 10:58 pm on 30 April 2008

    I too love the look of the MacBook Air but had to laugh when i saw this video clip…




    Comment by Scott Zerby at 12:33 pm on 11 June 2008

    Use Viigo for Blackberry RSS - by far the best! Any plans for a Blackberry dashboard client? The Blackberry Bold looks amazing!