TOP TOOLS 2007
Teemu Arina

Teemu is a partner and CEO at Dicole Oy, a company focusing on understanding the role of social technologies in knowledge work and networked learning in organizations. Teemu blogs at Tarina

Timu's Top 10 Tools as at 27 July 2007

1. Dicole - The software my company has been working on for the last four years. It integrates wikis, blogs, RSS aggregation and private/open working areas that I use to communicate with my colleagues and customers. It also integrates some online productivity tools I can't live without like Toodledo and Google Calendar.
2. Perl - One feat opening unlimited doors to creativity is programming.  I'm a programmer by heart, having exercised it since I was 13 years old. I've tried tens of languages but I always come back to Perl, the duct tape of the internet. There are not many things out there you can't do with it.
3. Web Developer toolbar - Great extension for Firefox that should be available in every other browser. It's useful for debugging XHTML/CSS sites. Greatest timesaver is a feature that allows me to create CSS quickly LIVE without reloading pages.
4. ScribeFire - It's an extension for Firefox that allows me to blog to the 10+ blogs I'm writing to, enabling drag & drop of text and images for quotation. If my computer crashes, my unsaved entries are always retrieved.
5. Scrapbook - Another extension for Firefox. There is no better way to come back to articles or snippets of texts while I'm doing research on the internet. Great for offline reading on the road, too.
6. Keynote - Previously I used OpenOffice but after switching from Linux to Mac OS X it became apparent that there is no match for Keynote if you want to create incredible visual journeys rather than endless boring lists of bullet-points. My audience loves it
7. Adium - Several IM clients in one. I'm in so many different IM networks that I just can't use a separate application for each one. Unfortunately Skype is not yet available for it.
8. Jaiku - It runs on my mobile phone and notifies me what my friends are doing, where they are and if they are available for a call.  It also serves as a quick way to post small ideas or just get some lunch company in the true spirit of serendipity. The web interface connects my online presence into a single stream I can browse to understand who I really am.
9. APT GET - Originally orginated in Debian Linux and later also found as "Fink" in Mac OS X, apt-get allows me to install a solution to any problem from the command line in no time.
10. del.icio.us - Quick post to del.icio.us button in my browsers allows me to send the current site of interest to an universally available pile of neural network waste to be found later by luck or recall.