This post is more about how our habits and processes have changed over the years. I am going to list some products and services that I regularly use and some I not so regularly use. I invite you to share with us what products and services you use today, which you did not use 10 years ago.
Regularly
Outlook (for email)
Firefox for Browsing (Internet Explorer is just so yesterday)
REA or Domain (for real estate)
Google (for searching and research)
My Outlook Address Book (for contacts)
My Mobile Phone (for communicating)
MSN Messenger, Skype and Yahoo Messenger (for communicating)
Facebook (for keeping in touch with family and friends)
Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Adobe Acrobat, Dreamweaver (Software)
ABC, SBS, Google News and RSS Feeds (for News and Technology Updates)
Basecamp (for Project Management)
Blinksale (for Invoices)
ITunes (for Music)
IPOD and IPod Nano (For Music)
XBox 360 (for games, music and movies)
Canon Digital Ixus (for digital photography)
My Car (Sydney is designed for Taxi’s)
I sometimes use:
Yahoo, MSN, Ask (for searching)
White Pages (for looking up an address or to find a postcode)
IE7, IE6, Opera and Safari (for browser testing)
Newspapers (for news)
A Pen ( and I am poorer for it)
I no longer use
Film for Cameras (all digital now)
My Home Phone (for calls)
Yellow Pages or White Pages Print (for looking up products and services)
Stamps (letters)
Cheque Book (for some payments)
Real Estate Agents Windows (for property searching – actually never did)
VCR (For Videos)
Music CD’s (I have not purchased one for 3 years)
Cannot think of any more things, I am sure there are a lot more. Share your ideas!
Cheers!! Well said. However I personally use Opera as my browser – just because of it’s amazing functions and I use whereis for addresses.
You shouldn’t use your mobile for long calls, like made from home, the radio waves will fry your brain.
Get a land line for those leisurely long calls.
Good Morning,
After consistent badgering from my family, I recently offloaded my Beta Cassette player, along with various beta cassettes in the last council rubbish collection day.
I still have no idea of some of the items in your ‘I USE’ list Peter, but good to see the old Aunty still there going strong. Now that is certainly a media company who has changed with the times.
For those who want a glimpse into Elizabeth, I can confirm that I no longer wear Leg Warmers.
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Hi Elizabeth, added some links…..And ABC News Website is easily the best news website in Australia, i8n fact I would go so far as to say that the commercial ones are so bad that ABC News Website will actually become more popular within 2 years.
The news coverage on commercial channels is a bloodly disgrace, the 3rd story on on Ch 10 last week was about Shannon Nolls new CD
Outlook Peter?….Seriously?….Gosh!
Great Topic..
You wanted people to share… so to add to the list (I also use many of the same you do Peter) for the “Use Regularly” section :
Xbox with XBMC running as a Media Centre http://www.xboxmediacenter.com
Portable PMP with 20GB HDD
Topfield Twin Tuner PVR http://www.topfield.com.au
Fully Wired and Wireless Home Network
Photovu Photo Frame http://www.photovu.com
Wikipedia – http://www.wikipedia.com
Adobe Indesign
Canon 400D SLR with L Series Lenses
Google Talk IM
ICQ Groupware Internal IM software
Smartcode VNC Manager http://www.s-code.com
4GB Flash Drive
Wacom Tablet http://www.wacom.com
Smugmug http://www.smugmug.com
Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader
Google Analytics http://www.google.com/analytics
Google Webmaster Central http://www.google.com/webmasters
Gmail mail.google.com
Azureus Bittorrent Client azureus.sourceforge.net
StumbleUpon http://www.stumbleupon.com
iRealty http://www.irealty.com.au
Google Maps maps.google.com.au