Scott works for CETIS, a national research and
development service for UK Higher and Post-16 Education
sectors. This is Scott's
Workblog.
Scott's Top 10 Tools as at 26 July 2007
Shrook. Shrook
is a desktop feed
aggregator for the
Mac. I love it as
its minimal and
highly efficient - I
can navigate the
feeds using the
arrow keys rather
than tedious
point-and-click
iGTD. This is a "getting things done" application. My
life is far too complicated these days for a mere to-do
list, and iGTD is really good at getting me organised.
OmniGraffle.
The king of diagram-drawing applications. I'm a very visual
person, and OG gives me all the tools I need to get
drawing. I also use Illustrator too, but OG gives me
the 80% case.
Skype.
My number one communication tool. I use
it for all kinds of stuff these days, from video-chat with
my family while away on trips, to management conference
calls.
Elgg.
Everything you need to build your own, open-source,
open-standards Facebook competitor, and getting better all the
time.
Explode.
A great service for linking up lots of social networks
Eclipse. Writing code without it is just
painful now.
OpenID.
Not a tool as such, but any online service that insists on
users creating Yet Another Account really has no excuse now.
None.
Ruby
on Rails. It's made writing web applications
fun again.
What are your
Top 10 tools - for
your own personal working and learning
and/or
creating, delivering or supporting others' learning?
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