Essentials 2010 Edition

See previous:

• 2008/2009
• 2007

Inspired by Tim’s 5 open source apps I spend the most time using, here’s my 2010 Essentials. In no particular order:

1. [School/Home/Work] Chrome – w/ AdBlock Plus, Greasemonkey and Google Mail Checker
2. [School/Home/Work] Google Docs/Calendar/Reader – several Google Labs extensions
3. [Work/School] Microsoft Office with OffiSync, Data mining addins for Excel
4. [Work/Home] PuTTY
5. [Home] Twitter/TweetDeck
6. mIRC
7. [Work] SQL Management Studio
8. [Work] vSphere Client
9. [Work/Home/School] Pidgin
10. [Work/Home/School] iTunes w/ AudioScrobbler plugin
11. [Work] Microsoft Sharepoint
12. [Home] Mint.com
13. [Work] OpenVPN
14. [Work] VMware Workstation
15. [Work/Home/School] Notepad++
16. [Work] FireGPG/Firefox
17. [Home] Google Analytics
18. [Home/Work/School] Facebook
19. [Home/Work/School] Hacker News
20. [Home/Work/School] FoxIt Reader

It’s interesting to see the changes to the list over the years. Jobs have changed but so have the tools, now all of the basic collaboration is done over the web.

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