HiTCHO Top tech tips

I recent visit with old Brisbane friend HiTCHO which I met at the Brisbane MySQL Users Group in 2005, has lead to this cool list of some hardware and software technologies he used that I am now considering or have already implemented or purchased.

Software

  1. xmarks.com – Bookmark-Powered Web Discovery
  2. Pulse – Smart Pen
  3. Quicksilver Mac windows manager
  4. MailPlane – Brings Gmail to your Mac desktop
  5. Evernote – Remember Everything, with Firefox plugin and iPhone App
  7. Textmate – The missing editor for Mac OS/X
  8. Screen flow Professional screencasting Studio
  9. Snoop – A GNU/Linux file descriptor monitoring tool inspired by FreeBSD’s ‘watch’.

Hardware

  1. Drobo – Storage that manages itself
  2. Canon PowerShot SX1 . True HD in a Canon compact digital camera.
  3. LiveScribe – Never miss a word
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