Since I don’t have a secretary, I use a whole host of computer applications to help me increase my productivity. I’ve decided to list them all here for others to peruse. If you have a favorite efficiency application that I don’t actually use, tell me about it!
- File Management
- Amarok (Linux) - A full featured music application with full support of podcasts and bi-directional music transfers on Ipods.
- Anapod Explorer (Windows)- A bi-directional music organizer for Ipods.
- Ex Falso (Linux) – A mp3 tagger.
- Hellanzb (Linux) - It downloads from newsgroups, checks the parity files, and then extracts the files for you. What else can you ask for?
- Organizer
- FlexWallet (Windows Mobile) – Allows me to leave most of my (credit || membership || rewards) cards at home.
- Gaim (Linux) – allows me to sign on to MSN / AIM / Jabber all at the same time.
- Lextionary (Windows Mobile) – full featured on-the-go dictionary.
- Maildrop (Linux) – automatically sorts and filters my email based on my personal scale of “importance”.
- MythTV (Linux) – acts as my digital video recorder (DVR) and my video organizer. The setup was a bit torturous, but it has made up for it in all the ads I no longer have to watch (without paying a monthly fee)!
- Outlook (Windows [Mobile]) – keeps my calendar and contacts on both my laptop and my phone.
- Papyrus (Windows Mobile) – keeps my day to day organizer on my DASH.
- Planetplanet (Web) – aggregates all the non-private RSS streams of blogs I read and publishes it on one clean page.
- Sitebar (Web) – synchronized bookmarks wherever I go.
- Trillian (Windows) – The windows equivalent of Gaim.
- Server Management
- Amavis (Linux) – Gets rid of virus-infested / spam emails from the mail server. It is now stopping more than 1000 spams a day!
- Gallery (Web) – In my opinion, there is simply no better way to organize your photos.
- Horde (Web) – I mainly use the email portion of this “groupware”, and apparently so does a lot of universities.
- Phpmyadmin (Web) – you didn’t expect me to manage my databases all using command prompt did you?
- Phpldapadmin (Web) – Sometime last year, I thought it would be a great idea to switch my backend to ldap. Thank god for this app.
- Samba (Linux) – Allows windows and Linux computers to talk to each other in an admin-sane fashion.
- Webmin (Web) – Graphical interface for systems administration.
- WordPress (Web) – Most of my websites now run entirely off of WordPress (though a severely hacked version). If I still had to manage a loose collection of pages, I would seriously kill myself.
