Professionally I’m normally referred to as the “IT guy” and people often think i have every new gadget. Yet the truth is that I own relatively few toys, preferring tools that I will use loads and are value for money. I REALLY fear buying a device or tool that proves to be useless and effectively a waste of cash. I started to list my items and figured I may as well share them here. Interestingly in recent months i’ve been spying on friends and family gadget collection and i’m really average and far behind true nerds!
Devices
- 2.4 GHz macbook with 8GB RAM (secondhand but from 2011? used to replace the below)
- 2.4 GHz macbook with 4GB RAM (2009) that I now keep at work to get things done when I hit the IT services wall on occasion!
- Raspberry Pi – affordable computer that I tinker with
- Kindle Paperwhite – for reading ebooks and looong reports
- Kobo touch
- HTC One X mobile phone
- Nike running watch and heart rate monitor
- Nexus 7 tablet
- Apple iPad 1 (secondhand) for testing
Software and tools
- VLC Media Player – used to watch all videos
- Mozilla Firefox Browser (my browser of choice for the addons – screengrab, Web developer toolbar, firebug, )
- Google Chrome Browser – used for testing
- Filezilla FTP – transfer web content
- Coda 2 – code editor
- 1password – for managing all my passwords and serial numbers and ESSENTIAL
- Spotify – useful for streaming music
- DoubleTwist – music sync for Android
- evernote – for writing and storing personal and work notes
- Trello – used for all my to-do lists