Showing posts with label tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tools. Show all posts

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Instant Messaging

Ich habe gewechselt, mal sehen ob auf Dauer:
Ziemlich lange habe ich Pidgin genutzt, bin jetzt aber (mal wieder) umgestigen auf Digsby (Announcement auf deren Blog für den aktuellen Build 32).
Digsby hatte ich vorher schon mal ausprobiert, aber wieder deinstalliert, da es viel zu viel Speicher gefressen hat, was sich nun aber merklich verbessert hat. Bei hat Digsby derzeit weniger Speicherbedarf als Pidgin.
Nett finde ich vor allem die Integration mit Social Networking - ich nutze Facebook, LinkedIn und Twitter. Vielleicht fange ich ja doch noch an regelmäßiger zu twittern :-)
Es wird noch MySpace unterstützt, aber das ist eine der wenigen Web 2.0 Seiten auf denen ich nicht vertreten bin ;-)

Friday, March 14, 2008

long time no see

und schon wieder 3 Monate rum, ohne was zu bloggen :-(
Dabei wird es doch mal wieder Zeit für News von der Tool-Front

Bin gerade dabei Xobni den ersten Indizierungslauf machen zu lassen. Bin ganz schön gespannt, wie sich das Tool machen wird.
Wer von Xobni noch nichts gehört hat: unbedingt das product video gucken - sehr vielversprechendes EMail-Analyse-Werkzeug.

kleines Update: hier zwei Links zu Reviews zu Xobni:
NoGeekLeftBehind
Your Suspect

Saturday, July 21, 2007

My current productivity tool set

Quick overview of my current software tools for GTD and personal productivity
  • MyLifeOrganized
    Inbox, list of next actions, tasks with a due date
  • Outlook
    email: inbox, reference files (folders are structured by clients and projects)
    calendar: appointments (meetings), deadlines/milestone dates
  • WikidPad
    everything :-)
    lists, notes, articles, ...
  • FreeMind
    used for brainstorming, project planning, ...
    the results are transferred to WikidPad
  • tag2find
    new tool for me (I use it for 1 week now), with this tool you are able to tag files in your filesystem (i think it only works with NTFS) - if you use it consequently it's better than a desktop search (btw: I use Microsoft Desktop Search, 'cause I had to install it for my Outlook 2007, before I had Google Desktop Search installed)
  • PersonalBrain
    also new, PersonalBrain 4 was released a few days ago and I give it a try again, since they also have a free version of it now
  • del.icio.us
    bookmarks - I think everyone knows del.icio.us by now
  • FreeCommander
    my file manager
  • Launchy
    I can't remember the last time I used the "normal" Windows start-up menu ;-)
  • AutoHotKey
    used for text substitutions, some scripts for managing startup procedures and tagging
  • GoogleReader
    RSS feed reader (I subscribed about 250 feeds)
  • KeePass
    Password manager - I will never ever use a week password again ;-)
  • ... to be continued

Miro

I just installed Miro - and I have to admit I became instantly a fan of this tool.
Not because of the tool itself (it's just to buggy, e.g. I get an XML-error when trying to edit the options so I'm unable to change them) but because I realized just how much there is to watch and learn out there.
The first channels I added are Google Videos (engEDU), TED, 2 channels with film trailers and the German Tagesschau
My favorite features in the moment are
- background downloading of new videos
- old videos are automatically deleted (days to keep are configured per feed)
- integrated search engine for YouTube, Google Video...

I know that there are similar tools out there but I will stay with Miro for a while.