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Following Mark Pilgrim’s meme…

My computer usage is somewhat unusual. I have a Linux workstation for my job, an Apple Powerbook for remote productivity (’remote’ usually being my couch, a coffeeshop, or a meeting room), and a Windows desktop for videogames. To keep my digital stuff synchronized across my three different computers (and OSes), I’m prejudiced towards using web apps over desktop apps.

Web/OS-agnostic apps

• Firefox + GMail Notifier + Greasemonkey + del.icio.us plugin + web developer + livelines + Foxmarks + HTML validator + Menu Editor + the missing Google Suggest
• GMail for personal and important work email
• Thunderbird + GMailUI for work email
• Google Reader and del.icio.us for organizing stuff to read
• Backpack Plus for organizing everything else
• Password Safe SWT for more secure passswords
• Oracle Calendar (pretty much required for Cornell employees, sigh [please save me, Backpack Calendar!])
• OpenSSH (with ssh-agent and key forwarding!) for administering other computers (PuTTY on Windows)
• keychain for better ssh-agent behavior

Linux workstation

• RedHat Enterprise Linux (Cornell has a site license, so it was “free”. If not for that probably debian or Ubuntu)
• Cyrus-imap for my mail server: keeps all my work email and a backup of my personal email
• Emacs for programming/development
• Bash, and a ton of aliases and shell scripts to save my fingers undue wear and tear

Powerbook

• iTunes + iPod Nano (yay for NPR podcasts)
• iChat
• TextMate

Windows Desktop

• BitTorrent (for downloading, um, linux distros?)
• World of Warcraft Kicked the habit. No more skipping social events to wipe on C’Thun
• SimCity 4
• The Sims 2
• Second Life
• Call of Duty 2
• FarCry

This entry was posted by Aaron Suggs on Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 at 7:56 pm and is filed under Nothing in particular, Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.