Hi Mitch, do you get to do "real" GTD on your mobile devices? I guess Evernote's the closest you could get to a proper GTD app, but I like using a similar app (SpringPad) for collecting what GTD would refer to as "references." I found it confusing to use the same mobile app as an inbox and list manager. It seemed like too much clutter for me.
I'm seriously considering paying for Mindjet (formerly MindManager, Cohuman, etc.) when its mobile apps mature a bit more. It's attempting to combine inside-out and outside-in through integrating mindmaps and project (i.e. grouped) task lists. The mindmap + GTD method has always worked the best for me, but paper has been the only option since there was no app for it :O until Mindjet came along.
Thanks, i'll have to try it. Its a good thing its opensource and based on the firefox rendering engine since i already rely on a lot of firefox extensions like firezilla and colorzilla.
I should mention Terracopy as an excellent app for copying files quick. I came to realize it makes a big difference in file copying time. i.e. if you're the typical impatient computer user who doesn't like waiting for two minutes.
Much lighter than dreamweaver. I don't like dreamweaver, mostly because it is so bloated, as you imply. Bluegriffon is nice if you want to switch back and forth between wysiwyg and html modes. I like it to help me visualize simple pages.
It's not too different from editing a page in wordpress and switching back and forth between visual and code modes for the editor. However, bluegriffon isn't going to add a bunc of extra line breaks and re-code the page to 'improve' it.
Chuckgregory, - Notepad++ still beats them all in terms of code editing i agree. Haven't tried WYSIWYG HTML editors other than dreamweaver. I hope the ones you mention are much lighter on the RAM.
Rob, lots of cool new toys you are suggesting. I'll give some of them a try, the networking ones at least.
I like lastpass for password management, have used it for years. Keepass concept of storing on a usb key may be more secure though.
One set of tools I play with every few months, then put back on the shelf, is virtualization. My new favorite in that area is hypervisor, now that it's included free of charge as part of Windows 8. It's great to be able to configure a machine-within-a-machine and deploy a new operating system there. I love to play with Linux but I don't always have actual hardware to spare for it. Too many of my clients need to to be running Windows natively for me to switch to Linux permanently, and Microsoft cleverly priced their upgrade where they are getting me back into the fold.
Of course, Chuck. Web development. I should have seen that one.
I have a very basic site of my own, and consider Filezilla the best client out there.
How could I forget IP Address management? Solarwinds has a free utility for IP address discovery. A worthy addition to a network engineer's toolbox. They also have a TFTP server that I've used for deploying Cisco configs. And how could I forget their IP Subnet Calculator?
Ah yes, password management. For me, the winner in password management is KeePass. There's several Web sites where I don't know my password, which is a 14-character password with extended characters that KeePass can automatically enter for me. And it will run entirely from a USB drive, so I can take it with me from PC to PC.
Keep it all encrypted, like with TrueCrypt, and it's that much harder to get at the stuff. I especially like TrueCrypt's duress function. I create two separate encryption keys, and an encrypted space exists under both. So I put some relative nonsense in one, and the other is my *actual* data. And TrueCrypt doesn't reveal the "hidden" partition.
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Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
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