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My Web - February 2010


Can’t Live Without  ~   Photography  ~   Communication  ~   Scheduling
Planning  ~   Blogging  ~   Backup   ~  Financial  ~   Media Consumption

This is all the stuff I’m currently using online.

Can’t Live Without 

Dropbox
Great for collaboration, sharing, and backup. Dropbox will install on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Anything in your Dropbox folder is automatically backed up to the Dropbox website and any other synced computer on your account. All files are backed up (even after delete) and revisions are kept for any changes so you can go back to a restore point. You can also share internal folders with other users, and you can sync folders with other Dropbox users.

Gmail
Gmail revolutionized e-mail with the search rather than sort philosophy. With unlimited filters, managing my inbox has never been easier or more efficient, and keyboard shortcuts make common tasks easy and trivial.

RememberTheMilk
RememberTheMilk is my todo and task management service of choice. It integrates with Google Calendar, Google Gears, Gmail, Twitter, iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. Like Gmail, RememberTheMilk sports a flexible layout with key commands and has excellent search tools.

MindMeister
MindMeister is a mind mapping and brainstorming app. I love the visual layout of mind maps and MindMeister allows me to keep huge amounts of data in a highly structured manner. I wish there was a better iPhone app, but the online access is great. Offline access via Google Gears is available.

Photography 

Flickr
Flickr is my favorite photo sharing site. With excellent integration with iPhoto and Adobe Lightroom (via plugin), it is trivial to add my photos to Flickr. With great tools like sets, collections, tags, and geotagging, it is easy to navigate and find photos. Flickr’s community is very diverse and friendly.

Facebook
Facebook’s photos are admittedly terrible. But a photo is only useful if people can see it, and almost everyone I know is on Facebook. For getting those photos out there, Facebook is my distribution method of choice. Then I tell people higher resolution versions are on my Flickr.

Communication 

Facebook
Like it or not, Facebook remains the easiest way to “get the word out.” I use it to keep in touch, keep up, invite to events, post pictures, etc. It’s also automatically updated with my status and notes with other services online.

Gmail
Gmail revolutionized e-mail with the search rather than sort philosophy. With unlimited filters, managing my inbox has never been easier or more efficient, and keyboard shortcuts make common tasks easy and trivial.

Google Apps
If you have a domain, you can get every Google service for your domain. All my domain email is handled as if it was a @gmail.com account.

Scheduling 

MobileMe + Google Calendar
I use a MacBook and an iPhone, and thus, I am highly dependant on iCal on the MacBook and Calendar on the iPhone. I keep these to synced with MobileMe, and I keep Google Calendar synced with iCal with BusySync.

RememberTheMilk
RememberTheMilk is my todo and task management service of choice. It integrates with Google Calendar, Google Gears, Gmail, Twitter, iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. Like Gmail, RememberTheMilk sports a flexible layout with key commands and has excellent search tools.

Planning 

MindMeister
MindMeister is a mind mapping and brainstorming app. I love the visual layout of mind maps and MindMeister allows me to keep huge amounts of data in a highly structured manner. I wish there was a better iPhone app, but the online access is great. Offline access via Google Gears is available.

Evernote
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Blogging 

SquareSpace
You’re looking at SquareSpace. This entire site is hosted by SquareSpace. I went from a static HTML site to a PHP based site to WordPress, and finally here to SquaceSpace. There is nothing as flexible and easy as SquareSpace. Excellent uptime, backup, and service along with distributed load balancing means your site will always be up, even if you make the front page of Digg.

Tumblr
I love Tumblr because it is the most visually appealing blogging service. While no-frills, it presents itself extremely well and anyone can pick up and use it. I especially recommend it for sharing a photo quickly. You can set it up to automatically Tweet (which in turn could set your Facebook status). Talk about getting the word out.

Twitter
I don’t share my every move, but I do share whenever I have something to share. I think of it as an RSS headline feed that I can manage. I also have my Twitter automatically update my Facebook status so I can reach a larger audience.

Posterous
Posterous as a blog is quite, well, ugly. However it’s strength is in posting. You can post from online or by email along with attachments like Word, PowerPoint, PDF, JPG, GIF, PNG, MP3, AVI, or MPG. You can choose to also post to your other accounts automatically including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Tumblr, Blogger, WordPress, Typepad, Moveable Type, LiveJournal, Xanga, SquareSpace, YouTube, Vimio, and many more.

Backup 

Dropbox
Great for collaboration, sharing, and backup. Dropbox will install on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Anything in your Dropbox folder is automatically backed up to the Dropbox website and any other synced computer on your account. All files are backed up (even after delete) and revisions are kept for any changes so you can go back to a restore point. You can also share internal folders with other users, and you can sync folders with other Dropbox users.

Financial 

Mint
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Media Consumption 

Google Reader
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Instapaper
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Audible
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Podcasts
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Jason Ishibashi 2002-2010
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