Stuff I Use
I use a lot of stuff - applications, gadgets, services, etc. Not everything is listed here of course, just the things I find most useful.
(Last updated: 12/24/2011 - added X100)
Software
- Tinderbox - Writing, planning, tracking and thinking
- DEVONthink - Email Archives, Manuals, PDFs, Scanned documents
- Evernote - Digital Detritus
- OmniFocus - Task Management/GTD
- PersonalBrain - “No limits Mindmapping”
- BBEdit - General text editing
- Safari - Only browser I need
- Sparrow - ‘cause Apple’s Mail stopped working well for me.
- Twitterrific - Twitter client
- Dropbox - File syncing
- Lightroom - Image editing and management
- Capture One Pro - Raw conversions
- Photo Mechanic - Ingesting, tagging, renaming photos from card
- Silverfast Ai - Scanning software for Kodachrome and the HowTek
- Vuescan - Scanning software for Epson
- JIRA - Issue tracking and iteration planning
- OmniPlan - Project planning and forecasting
- 1Password - Password management
- Acorn - Image editing for normal people
- Chronosync - drive and file backups
- CSSEdit - in case I absolutely have to edit CSS
- Transmit - (S)FTP client
- Skitch - Screenshots
- Transmission - Bittorrent client
- Textexpander - Key shortcuts
- Alarms - Awesome little reminder app
- Alfred - App launcher and thing finder
- Keyboard Maestro - Macro wizardry
- Day One - Personal Journal
- Remember? - Best calendar app since MacOS 7-ish.
Photography Gear
- Nikon F6 - World’s best 35mm SLR
- Leica M6 - Rangefinder camera
- Leica M4 - Rangefinder camera
- Hasselblad 500 C/M - Medium format film camera
- Nikon D700 - Digital SLR
- Fujifilm X100 - Go-everywhere digital
- Olympus E-P1 - Micro 4/3rds Digital
- Olympus E-P3 - Micro 4/3rds Digital
- Minolta Autocord - Medium format TLR
- Olympus OM-1n
- Olympus OM-2n
- Ricoh GR1 - Terrific point and shoot film camera
- Canon 1Ds - Digital SLR camera
- Canon Canonet - Rangefinder camera
- (2) Olympus Stylus Epics - Compact film cameras
- Epson V750 Pro - Flatbed scanner
- HP Photosmart 7960 - Photo printer
- Howtek ScanMaster 4500 drum scanner
Computers and Electronics
- Apple 27” iMac - A monster.
- Apple 11” Macbook Air - best computer ever made (so far)
- Apple iPad - Mostly for running Omnifocus and watching movies
- Amazon Kindle - Books, lots of ‘em
- iPhone 4 - The Jesus Phone
- Rega P1 Turntable
- Rega Brio Integrated Amplifier
- Thorens TD 160 Turntable
- Marantz Receiver (from sometime in the mid-1970s)
- Sonos wireless music system - Music everywhere in my house
- Fujitsu ScanSnap - Document scanning
Some hardware I no longer own or use
Hardware
Leica M8 - Digital rangefinder cameraLeica M7 - Rangefinder film cameraBronica SQ-A - Medium format film cameraRicoh GR1 - Compact film cameraPlaystation 3 - Mostly for watching DVDsTechnics SL-D2 turntable - Vinyl!Onkyo something reciever - For amplifying the vinylXBox 360 - Mostly for Netflix streamingRicoh GRDII - Compact digital camera