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TOP 10 TOOLS 2007
Scott Wilson
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Google. I
can't imagine life without it.
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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.
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Elgg.
Everything you need to build your own, open-source,
open-standards Facebook competitor, and getting better all the
time.
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Explode.
A great service for linking up lots of social networks
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Eclipse. Writing code without it is just
painful now.
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OpenID.
Not a tool as such, but any online service that insists on
users creating Yet Another Account really has no excuse now.
None.
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Ruby
on Rails. It's made writing web applications
fun again.
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