Just to capture the current state. Here’s the tools I use a lot. Order and categorization are totally accidental.
- Browsing: Firefox
- Mail: Thunderbird, Gmail
- RSS: Bloglines, Live Bookmarks
- Blogging: WordPress
- Photos: Flickr, Gimp
- Editors: Emacs, Vi
- Wiki: Comawiki
- IM: Gaim (jabber, icq), working on using VoIP more
- Search: google
- Dictionnary: leo
- Online Payments: paypal, my bank’s online banking
- News: Spiegel
- Technews: heise, golem
- Bookmarks: furl, stumble upon, bloglines
- Shopping: Amazon, ebay
- Software Development:
- IDE: Eclipse
- UML: Dia
- Bugtracker: Mantis, Bugzilla
- Continuous Build: Cruise Control
- Scheduling: Openoffice
- Version Control: CVS
- Buildtool: Ant
- Online knowledge base: Wikipedia (?)
I think it is a measure of “geekiness” how many of the categories you can fill with a tool you use or if you have even more categories. For example my mother is using: browsing, email, bookmarks, shopping and search.
Some of the categories are a matter of taste like blogging. What surprises me recently how many people still don’t get or use RSS technology.
(adding more links later)
edit I thought of another category, one that I don’t use:
- Social networking: friendster, orkut
