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Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

#61
[Home] Mac Pro with 27" Cinema Display, 2x Quad Core 2.26GHz Xeon with 12 GB Ram, 120 GB SSD and a bunch of 1 TBs for backups/storage

[Mobile] MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo with 8 GB Ram, 320 GB disk

[Office] iMac Quad i7 with 8 GB Ram, 1 TB disk

iPhone 4 32 GB

iPad 3G 64 GB

TextMate for code/text

Parallels for Windows testing

Safari as my primary browser

Firefox (for Firebug) when doing web work

iChat for AIM/Jabber

TinyGrab for screenshot sharing

Dropbox for file sync between machines (All App Preferences are symblinked in so settings are the same across machines)

Transmit for File Uploads

1Password for password storage/secure password generation

TextExpander for Text/code snippets

Pages/Keynote/Numbers for productivity

Sequel Pro for MySQL GUI

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

#62
MBP 13" SSD & Lenovo X300 SSD - best in each class

2x 24"

Logitech MX5000 (must, have 3 of them)

Textmate, vi, netbeans, eclipse, photoshop, firefox, chromium, chrome, hexfiend, apache, postgres, mysql, redis, nginx, mongodb, php, python, xcode, itunes, virtualbox, truecrypt, skitch, visual studio, freebsd

4-5 diff smartphones but use none of them. bunch of servers in the cloud. most used app is terminal.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

#64
My rig is here: http://jseliger.com/2010/05/02/writing-space-2010/ . 24" iMac with an external monitor; will probably be replaced by a 27" iMac with an SSD in the coming months. Expanding screen real estate / secondary monitors are probably the two greatest productivity enhancements I've seen in the last ten years.

Software:

1) Mostly Word, Textmate, and Mellel. The first for documents I have to send to others; the second for blog posts and the like; and the third for longer documents like novels.

2) Devonthink Pro, as described by Steven Berlin Johnson here: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/0002... . This is insanely useful.

3) Firefox.

4) Occasionally Terminal.

5) Occasionally iMovie, iPhoto, and Handbrake.

6) Typinator: http://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/ , another insanely useful utility that I learned about online somewhere.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

#65
I'm a college student who's also a blogger, software reviewer, aspiring writer:

-2007-era home-built desktop running Windows 7 Professional x64 - AMD 64 x2, 3Gb Ram, 1Tb HD, 20" Acer monitor that I wish had higher resolution - dual-boots Ubuntu 10.10 and runs VMware Workstation for more OSes/testing

-Samsung N150 Netbook - Intel Atom N450, 1Gb Ram, 250Gb HD, Windows 7 Home Premium

-3rd Gen iPod Touch 32Gb, T-Mobile Dash from 2007 for phone calls :)

Software:

WordPress - most important tool :)

Office 2010

Windows Live Writer

Google Chrome

Photoshop Elements

Snagit + Camtasia

Evernote

Kindle for PC

Dropbox for almost everything

windroplr

dozens of other apps that I use less than the above

Dream Setup:

A faster version of my netbook with an external monitor/keyboard/mouse at my desk. The size is great, but 3Gb of Ram and a core i7 in the same package would be awesome...

Also, Things on Windows ( or another app that worked as good ) would complete my setup. I still don't have a great to-do list / GTD app for PC, so any suggestions would be great. Right now, I'm using Things on my iTouch and 37signals Backpack + Satchel for to-dos :)

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

#66
Who am I?

    American salaryman by day, wantrepreneur by night.
What Hardware am I Using?

    Just a lenovo T500 w/ windows 7 (and ubuntu virtualbox),
    and an iphone 3G (soon to be a nexus one).
    The iphone is jailbroken on tmobile, and I'm not a fan of how
    there's no springboard widget support, nor the pains of trying to
    maintain a jailbroken iphone. 
    I use a pair of Meelectronics M6(?) earbuds which are a steal.

    At work i use a Desktop running windows xp and 2 24" monitors.
And what software?

    real apps: Virtuawin, enso, chrome dev builds, Visual studio, vim, picasa, 
    and itunes (more of a winamp guy though), and sumatra pdf for reading books.

    f.lux is awesome, and seems to work better than redshift
    cloud apps: picasa web, irccloud, and countless other google apps
What is my dream setup?

   I want a laptop the size of a macbook air, but with a desktop-fast processor
   that is largely disabled on battery, but fires up when docked at home. 
   It must also be dead silent, and seamlessly dock to a desktop graphics card. 

   I used to only use a desktop machine 5-6 years ago. and I'm coming to 
   realize doing everything on one big honking laptop sucks. Laptops are 
   terrible ergonomically. Part of me still wants to travel 
   and work though. So I also want a big display that I can roll up in my backpack, 
   and an ergonomic chair i can pack easily too.

   Lastly, I want a cheap offsite backup setup that let's me upload/backup tons
   of stuff without much thought. I also want ZFS/Freenas to be more drobo-like. 
   I'd buy a drobo in a heartbeat if they said it just used ZFS and I never heard 
   horror stories about them.

   Realistically, I'm likely going to get either a desktop or x201s+dock or 
   hp envy 14, notion ink tablet, and a quiet low power freenas system.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

#67
I have two computers:

1. A Lenovo IdeaPad S10 running Ubuntu 10.10. 2. A Dell Dimension e520n which boots Arch Linux and OpenBSD (and sometimes Windows 7).

I am considering moving to a regular laptop (14" or 15" screen) and getting rid of both of my current computers. I find that I don't enjoy having multiple computers as much as I used to.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

#68
Notebook: 15" Macbook Pro, 8Gb mem, Hybrid HDD, Antiglare (matte) display. - Quicksilver, with lots of other custom scripts - SMCFanControl to control MBP Fan speed & - gfxCardStatus to force use of Intel GPU (increases battery life to a 10hr maximum) - iTerm, zsh with a 500 loc .zshrc, gnu screen (religiously) & VMWare running a Windows VM - MacVim - Lastpass & Xmarks for cross browser sharing of Password & Bookmarks.

Server: - Colocated Sun x4100, 16Gb mem, runs 8 VMs using OracleVM (Xen + pretty web based UI) - Colo costs $40/month, I get 500GB of monthly bandwith, includes a second

Others: - STAND UP DESK (at work) - Airport Extreme + attached usb printer for network printing.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

#69
Who I am: CS student at UNC.

Hardware:

- 15" MBP

- 5 year old no-name Desktop

- 24" monitor

- iPhone 4

- iPad

Software:

- Everyday Apps: 1Password, Things, NetNewsWire, Skype, Echofon, Adium, Unison, Transmit, Concentrate (getconcentrating.com), Arc (for backups), Colloquy, Dropbox, iWork, Skitch, The Unarchiver, ScrobblePod, BusySync

- Browser: Chrome (99%)

- Dev: Vim, Textmate, iTerm, Sequel Pro, Eclipse, Brew, GitX

- VMs: Fusion with Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

#70
* MacBook of some kind (currently 11" MBA) + 30" Apple Cinema Display + wireless keyboard + Magic Mouse

* Terminal.app

* TextMate

* Git

* Safari

* Chrome

* Homebrew

* Xcode

* Transmit

* Tweetie

* Adium

* Skype

* Mail.app

* Colloquy

* Cinch

* Dropbox

* Evernote

* And a whole bunch of command line tools. Run "history | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n" to find your most common. Mine are:

rm, mv, make, cd, ls, open, mkdir, mate, man, find, git, cat , touch, echo

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