Here's my "What I Do":
- Hardware: 3.5 year old AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2613 Mhz 2GB RAM; ancient Dell Inspiron laptop; Asus EEE Netbook. Considering an upgrade to my desktop system as it's starting to crash now that I'm putting heavier photo editing demands on it.
- External storage: CDs and DVDs; External hard drive
- Online storage: Dropbox (free) which I have synced to all the computers mentioned above and my iPhone.
- Backup: Dropbox; DVDs; External hard drive. Oh yes, and hard copy. Not that I'd want to start re-entering.
- Firewall: Yes I do thanks
- Virus protection: Yes I do thanks
- Spyware: I hope not! I have antispyware software.
- File cleaner: Ccleaner (free)
- Printer: Canon Pixma MP470 all-in-one. I'm considering if I want a flashy flatbed scanner, as I'm really enjoying learning to do photo restoration.
- Phone: Landline and iPhone
- Mobile media: iPhone
- Music player: iPhone
- Car audio: Ummm... the radio and CD player that came with the car... nothing special... can't say I use it for genealogy
- eBook Reader: Don't use one
- Browser: Firefox (and Safari on iPhone)
- Blog: Blogger
- RSS: Google reader
- FTP: -
- Text editor: Microsoft Word 2002. I'll upgrade from 2002 at home when they upgrade from 2003 at work. I can't change what they have at work, so I'd rather not know what might be possible with more recent software. The computers at work are frustrating enough as it is! I also have OpenOffice.
- Graphics: Photoshop Elements 7 + Grants Tools (and a few other plug-ins). It occurs to me that when my son starts school he'll be eligible for student pricing. That takes the price of Photoshop CS5 from over $1000 to under $200 (Australian). Very tempting...
- Screen capture: Vista's built-in snipping tool, which I only stumbled on by accident. Type "snipping tool" into the search box on the Start menu to find it.
- Social media: Twitter.
- Social bookmarking: Diigo (free), but I'm not using it socially.
- Social profile: -
- URL shortener: -
- Office suite: Microsoft Office Professional 2002. I also have OpenOffice (free).
- E-mail: Via my ISP; hotmail; gmail
- Calendar: Calengoo on my iPhone, which syncs with Google calendar
- Accounting: Had an excel spreadsheet but then I saw how much I was spending on genealogy so I stopped using it.
- PDF generator: CutePDF, but it usually fails when creating larger genealogy charts. I guess you get what you pay for. Haven't got around to looking for other options. I'll take note of what others say in their meme submissions.
- Genealogy database: Genbox
- Genealogy tools: Gensmarts - in particular the "customise records" feature when I've found a new resource.
- Other tech stuff: iPhone - for all the amazing non-phone things it can do! Roboform to manage all those passwords. Toodledo on the iPhone for my to-do list (free, also accessible by web). Starting to use Evernote (free - desktop and iPhone versions) for note taking and research planning. Wacom pen tablet for photo editing. Yahoo! groups which deserves a post of its own to tell you about what I've done there.
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