These are applications, services, and devices we use every day and/or for specific projects. For example, while we currently are not using CacheFly, we have made use of the service for particular projects. We expect this post to be updated routinely.
Operating Systems
Apple OS X Snow Leopard
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Windows Vista Ultimate With Windows Vista be productive, entertained, and mobile
And newly released WIndows 7. We'll update our Windows 7 experiences in a future post.
Windows 2003 Server, Standard Edition
Windows 2008 Server, Web and Standard Editions
Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop and Server often as a virtual machine on the Mac.
OpenSolaris which uses arguably the most advanced file system, ZFS. What is ZFS?
Application Software
OS X
Apple iLife '09 has web, music, and photo tools that work great together. We have never had to load a driver to communicate with any cameras we own - they just work.
Apple iWork '09 and iWork.com word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software. We also use the iPhone app that both controls the slide show and displays presenter notes.
We use Screenflow for desktop recording on our Mac and also to record Windows when running on under a VM on the Mac. The new version added some nice features including easy publishing to YouTube.
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is one of the best Mac applications.
VMware Fusion 2
Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac
Intuit QuickBooks for Mac we use the 2009 release. The 2010 is out mid-October, 2009. QuickBooks for Mac allows encrypted backups to your MobileMe iDisk.
TrueCrypt Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. We use it on the Mac.
OmniFocus is GTD® style task management for Mac OS X and iPhone. The software has good syncing functionality.
OmniGraffle Professional a drawing program - similar to Visio but for the Mac.
OmniPlan a project planning tool we occasionally use.
iStat pro is a free widget that lets you monitor your Mac, including CPU, memory, disks, network, battery, temperatures, fans, load & uptime and processes.
Development
Apple xCode development environment for Mac OS X.
Aptana Studio
Panic Software Transmit ftp client that works with ftp, MobileMe iDisk, Amazon S3, WebDav and more.
Panic Software Coda one-window web development
iPhone Applications
Analytics from AnalyticsApp.com
iStat Shows iPhone stats, monitors remote Mac, Linux & Solaris, CPU, memory, disks, temps, fans, and more. And it has some basic network tools.
OmniFocus Winner of the 2008 Apple Design Award for Best iPhone Productivity Application. We really like this program. It has multiple ways to sync but we use our MobileMe account here too.
Remotely lock your iPhone with Find My iPhone which requires a MobileMe account.
Windows
IIS Internet Information Server - web services. Much of our development targets IIS with ASP.NET.
FileZilla Client free open-source ftp client that runs on many operating systems. We only run it on Windows. There is a server now too that only runs on WIndows.
Development
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 The Microsoft Store is offering 12 free hours of training with your purchase now. There are numerous free and low-cost add-ins to Visual Studio. We'll show some that we use.
Fog Creek Software's FogBugz hosted on a VM at WebServicesRock.US!
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is a great valued, full-featured UML diagramming program. We use it instead of the much more expensive Rational tools.
OpenSolaris
Apache
Subversion (svn) is an open source version control system.
Processes
We expect to write about some processes that we routinely use in the future.
Devices We Use
Apple MacBook Air 2nd Generation
Apple 20" iMac
Apple Magic Mouse
Blue Pen, Mechanical Pencil, pape, and iPhone Application Sketch Pad
The mStand Laptop Stand By Rain Design
is a nicely designed stand for desktop we use regularly when working in bed or on the couch. It keeps the laptop at a good angle and most importantly keeps the ventilation at the back hinge clear from blankets etc.
