![]() ![]() My MacBook Pro is getting long in the tooth, and the screen does a weird flicker thing against certain gray backgrounds, so I’ve been thinking about a replacement. I have an entire monitor devoted to Facebook, blogs and Google+ sessions running in Chrome. On my iPhone, I am a huge Instagram evangelist, along with Camera+ and Photogene.įor social media stuff, I use Tweetdeck on Windows (still wish it was a web app though) and the official Twitter client on my Mac. For post work, I use iPhoto, Photoshop CS5 and occasionally Acorn, which is a terrific OSX application that does, for me, 90% of what I use Photoshop for. Whenever I have a thought that doesn’t fall apart like a soggy box after a few seconds of critique, it goes into one of these apps for later curation.įor photography, I use a Nikon D90, Canon S90, or my iPhone 4 (don’t laugh - it’s the most popular camera on Flickr). I would probably keel over dead within a half hour without Dropbox. Lately, a lot has been Rdio.įor keeping track of stuff, I use Notational Velocity on my Mac and SimpleNote on the web and iPhone/iPad. Because it is.įor keeping the soul-crushing silence at bay and the voices in my head arguing amongst themselves instead of with me, I fire up iTunes or Rdio. At work, I have to tolerate Outlook, which is really starting to feel like something wet, angry and smelly that crawled onto my computer from the late 1990s. Gmail might be the best implementation of email in the world. NET!).įor mail, I am a gigantic Gmail nerd. On Windows, Windows Live Writer 2011 is pretty solid, if a bit slow (thanks. For a pure, clean blogging on the Mac, I couldn’t live without MarsEdit. It depends on my current propensity to get distracted. It runs on both my work and home laptops.įor longform writing, I get all weird: I will use Ommwriter, WriteRoom, BBEdit, Sublime Text or even the WordPress editor. And what software?īeing a web dork means having a romantic relationship with your browser, and I am an unrepentant Chrome devotee. ![]() Well, except the shower and the gym, but aside from those caveats, everywhere. Right next to my iPad you’ll almost always find my iPhone 4, which I take with me everywhere. ![]() Still, it has replaced a laptop for 90% of my tasks when my son isn’t stealing it to play Dungeon Raid. It’s awesome, if a bit heavy and sharp-edged. I have a first-gen iPad that I use for everything except longform content creation. I use Apple’s wired keyboard because I have to have a number pad for data crunching, and I have a filthy - disgusting, really - Logitech wireless mouse whose model number I can’t remember because it was made before the dawn of language. If you don’t have multiple monitors but can afford them/are allowed to by your IT team, you’re cheating yourself.Īt home, I use a pretty banged-up early 2008 MacBook Pro with 4 GB of RAM that’s connected to a 2002 HP 2335 LCD monitor. Multiple monitors are the single best thing you can add to your setup next to a jetpack to improve productivity, and I would be far, far slower without them. In the office, I use a super-gonzo Dell Precision laptop running Windows 7 Professional connected to three 24″ monitors. After we get past that initial awkwardness, they invariably ask two things: (1) Can social media help my business? And (2) What is your computer hardware/software setup like?įor this Friday post, I will tackle both questions.įor (2), I will answer in the format of The Setup’s interviews, because I can read that stuff all day and have found some excellent software from them. Like, “Oh, how long have you been unemployed?” funny. When I tell people I do web/social media marketing work, that basically I’m a full-on web nerd, they look at me funny. ![]()
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