Internet Changes Everything: Current software apps

January 06, 2007

gmail for company mail and personal email, both read within the same inbox, and managed by labels.
Google Calendar including personal, and shared company calendars, all managed in one central calendar view (sounds complicated but dead simple)
Gcalsync to pull Google Calendar into Blackberry - its open source, and new. Its alpha, and development activity is quiet. I will stick with it until something better appears, or they re-activate.

Basecamp from 37 Signals - all sync' d by rss for updates
Greatnews for secure RSS updates from Basecamp
MyInfo for GTD - this software is very handy, and used daily. It sits in the system tray.
Moleskine for notes
Filofax for holding my pen :-) and GTD stuff, for those times, when you just need paper in front of you

Google Docs and Spreadsheets for personal items
Microsoft Office 2003 - I happen to own a personal copy, but I also use ...
OpenOffice for desktop stuff - its free and open source. I just wish and hope they will work more on the interface, which is very 2000' ish still. Simpler and cleaner would be good
Del.icio.us for bookmarking/ tagging
Amazon S3 for backups. Jungle Disk is the web service used to manage the sync
Google Desktop Search

Wordpress for blogging. Free, although I paid about $50 for CSS editing, and 1 gig of storage to cover uploads.
Windows Live Writer for posting (although I love it, MS have gone silent on this tool for three months - I sense someone at Microsoft got their knuckles rapped for making a free, extendible product)
Wordpress mobile (m.wordpress.com) for Blackberry access to blog app
Gliffy for online png diagrams, for the blog
Google Reader for RSS reading
Google Reader mobile for Blackberry ( google.com/reader/m )

Monthly

Altogether, pretty reasonable given the quality of these superb services.