On this page I maintain and frequently update a list of applications and services which I regularly use, and blogs which I read. I don’t accept payment for placement on this page — if it’s here, I really do enjoy it.
Blogs
- Daring Fireball — “Simple tricks and nonsense,” by John Gruber
- Destroy Today — “Destruction as a form of creation,” by Jonnie Hallman
- Marco.org — Marco Arment, lead developer of Tumblr, and creator of Instapaper
- Newly Ancient — Morgante Pell, a high school junior and web developer
- PStam.com — Paul Stamatiou, “a 20-something web developer, tech addict and car nut”
- ShaunInman.com — Shaun Inman, designer and developer of Mint and Fever
- xkcd — “A Webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”
You can follow all of these people on Twitter by checking out their list.
Services
- Amazon Web Services — “an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud”
- AT&T — Cell phone
- Comcast — Cable internet
- GitHub — “Social coding”
- Google Gmail
- Rackspace — Managed hosting and cloud services, all backed by the amazing “Fanatical Support”
- Twitter — “What are you doing?”
- TweetStream — “Your digitial words given back. Digitally. Physically. Literally.”
- Verizon — DSL internet
Software
- Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection
- AppZapper — “The uninstaller Apple forgot.”
- Fever — “takes the temperature of your slice of the web and shows you what’s hot”
- Firefox — “the faster, safer, smarter way to browse the Web”
- Fusion — “Windows is even better on the Mac”
- Mint — “an extensible, self—hosted web site analytics program”
- Notify 2 — “An awesome email notifier for OS X.”
- Notational Velocity — “an application that stores and retrieves notes”
- smcFanControl — Keep your Intel MacBook cooler
- TextMate — “brings Apple’s approach to operating systems into the world of text editors”
- Things — “Task management has never been this easy”
- Transmission — “a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client”
- Transmit — A superbly executed all-in-wonder FTP client for the Mac.
- Tweetie — Twitter done right, for both the Mac and the iPhone
- WordPress — “a state-of-the-art publishing platform”
Hardware
- 15″ MacBook Pro (Mid-2009 Unibody, Model MC118LL/A), 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD (5400 RPM)
- iPhone 3GS (Black, 32GB)
- Palm TX 1
- iPod nano 1G (Black, 4GB)
- iPod touch 1G (8GB)
- iPod touch 2G (8GB)
- Yes, I’m a Palm die-hard.
Last updated on December 8, 2009. All listings are in alphabetical order.