For the last couple of years I've done a 'what worked' personal technology review at the end of the calendar year. Like the Inca new year it's now a tradition on this blog - here's the view for 2011
Evernote
has turned out to be the real success of 2011. Accessible from
tablets and phones running iOs or Android, and from Macs and Windows
natively, with a web client for everything else it has turned out to
be incredibly useful. Notes, web clippings, invoices for tax
purposes, contracts, all sorts of work stuff and personal research
material, it handles it all.
One
Note was good but was hobbled by a poor web client and lack of true
multiplatform capability
I
changed over Chrome as Firefox seemed to have chronic memory leaks. I
have used Firefox since but Chrome delivers, and the silent
background updating means that bugs and issues are fixed quickly and
silently
The
best $285 I've spent in a long time. Truly game changing in that
working with a tablet means working with a truly portable device, one
that can be used from the sofa, bed, the kitchen bench, basically
everywhere within wi-fi reach, and also it socialises the experience.
It's
telling that J, who tends to be a technology refusenik wants one of
her own (this time a Lenovo IdeaPad) for compiling teaching materials via evernote, and general
web based research. It'll be interesting to report next year how the
experience went ...
Still
delivering...
Windows7
I was a really reluctant convert to Windows 7. Having been a Linux and OS X user for years I felt kind of dirty going back to Microsoft. But, it's like driving a Holden - they're pretty good these days, and kind of fun ...
I was a really reluctant convert to Windows 7. Having been a Linux and OS X user for years I felt kind of dirty going back to Microsoft. But, it's like driving a Holden - they're pretty good these days, and kind of fun ...
Cloud
services
Windows Live Skydrive, Google Docs, all these services that let you create, maintain and store documents remotely have really helped this year, making it easy to build and maintain a portfolio of working documents and backgrounders on line and accessible from anywhere. Coupled with One Note and wikidot, invaluable.
Cooler e-reader
still wonderful, light and versatile with wonderful battery life
Asus Netbook
Still good, and as both using as a tool to catalogue books and our trip to Thailand showed, light weight, reliable, versatile, and coupled with cloud services. highly effective
Windows Live Skydrive, Google Docs, all these services that let you create, maintain and store documents remotely have really helped this year, making it easy to build and maintain a portfolio of working documents and backgrounders on line and accessible from anywhere. Coupled with One Note and wikidot, invaluable.
Cooler e-reader
still wonderful, light and versatile with wonderful battery life
Asus Netbook
Still good, and as both using as a tool to catalogue books and our trip to Thailand showed, light weight, reliable, versatile, and coupled with cloud services. highly effective
Dropping
off....
Given
I used to be such an evangelist for Linux I've hardly used it this
year apart from a couple of vm's now and then. Ubuntu's move to Unity
hasn't helped but them I'm finding I can do everything I want on
Windows 7 or my tablet computer ...
Again,
ashamed to admit it but the Open Office/Libre Office split and
Oracle's shenanigans have ended up with me increasingly using Office
2010, with Skydrive for document portability, and Google Docs for
anywhere anytime document creation, no matter which computer I use
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