- Gmail - I use gmail , all day long everyday. Its searching, and filtering capabilities put and standalone client to shame. I have been using gmail from a year and a half now I am only at 500 MB I have 2.8 gigs if I have to use it, and they are slowly increasing the size of individuals emails boxes a little bit all day everyday.
- Google Calendar - I am and extremely forgetful person. My wife has the same school schedule every week, but I can't remember it. That is where google calendar comes into play. She puts here school schedule on her calendar and then we join our calendars together, voila I can look at it anytime of day to know if she is in school or not. Some things I would like to see are, everyone using something like it my school, my family. You could then do searches on free time.
- The Hype Machine - This is my music hookup. They have a billboard chart for music in theblogosphere . Which I think is cool, but they need to work on there algorithm a bit I think. I fell like it allows me too get a grasp on theblogosphere, like how as a whole it is thinking, or at least listening too.
- IM - Instant Messaging has become my main mode of communication to many people. I now sometimes talk to my parents more on IM then on the phone. There are many ways to get your IM on.
- GAIM - open source wonderfulness. cross platform windows and linux. and all the protocol's under the sine AIM, YAHOO, MSN, JABBER(gTalk)
- Google Talk - I use this mostly while I am using google mail. its also the easiest for most people to pickup because it sits there right inside your mail client.
- Meebo - At someone Else's computer or worse at a library computer that's locked down. Meebo does all the IM stuff in the web browser no need to install anything. The greatest work around I have ever seen.
- Google Reader- The way that google lets me interact with my feeds is the reason why I read blogs in the first place. It makes it so easy, that I feel like I am using an app on my computer. Blogs without Google Reader, I don't know how I ever did it.
- Ubuntu Linux - Linux is a great tool by it's self, but Ubuntu makes it 10 times better. I think Ubuntu is going to change a lot of minds, it has already changed mine. More soporifically then just Linux. The command line allows me to work so much faster then just clicking around in windows. The windows command line just sucks it doesn't have the power of Linux
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The Tools I use Everyday
A couple of places you didn't know you could use your aggregater.
Blogs are cool, but they are just one aspect of what RSS can do. It blew my mind when I figured this out, it was a revelation. Everything should be in an RSS feed. My bank statements, my appointments, my wife's birthday(just don't tell her). Even though RSS as a personal tool is still lacking there are many places where RSS is helpful now.The coolest one so far is, the RSS feeds for del.icio.us users. This is cool because I found that a number of big people use del.icio.us to book mark websites. Which means I don't have to wait for the links, I can get at the links as soon as they bookmark it. There are a couple people so far that have provided the best links. I also have found some peoples name even though it doesn't look like they use it so often
- First Clay Shirkey. He teaches New Media at NYU. His writing on network effects and tagging changed the way I look at blogs and folksonomies. - del.icio.us page
- Second is Gina Trapani the lifehacker geek goddess. Not much comes from here del.icio.us page I just link that I found it. - del.icio.us page
Amoeba music always has great acts in their stores but I kept forgetting to go to there web page and checkout the upcoming shows until I discovered they have a RSS feed. Now whenever they add something it shows up in my aggregater. Calendar link
A couple of others.
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