It’d be cool if there was a “geek work cribs” that showcased the preferred tools of geek celebs (and minor celebs). If there is, I don’t know about it. Nonetheless, we all find posts and pages to that effect here and there. Recently, fellow geek (and elearning celeb) Aaron Silvers kindly posted a page-by-page list of what’s on (and no longer on) his iPhone. There are some cool ways to do things like this that I’ll share too.
First, get an account (or two) at iusethis.com, but do NOT populate it- yet.
- Mac OS X – http://osx.iusethis.com
- iPhone – http://iphone.iusethis.com
Next, get AppFresh, a Mac OS X application that helps you keep apps, widgets, preference panes and plugins up-to-date. Conveniently, it also connects to you iusethis account for Mac OS X. Run AppFresh, and it will create a list of your Mac apps and check for new version. Add your iusethisaccoutn via the AppFresh preferences.
Once the list is populated by AppFresh, you can easily click to add items to iusethis.com from AppFresh. Now you have a readily updated list that you can share as a page or RSS feed (see link at bottom of your apps or event page on the iusethis site).
The iPhone section of the site isn’t quite as auto-magically updated. I’d love to see AppFresh or something like that scour your iTunes directory to populate such a list though (hint). Fortunately, the folks at iusethis do make it easy to find iPhone apps on their site or add your favorites while their forms pull in data from the iTunes App Store.
Now for the mobilemind iusethis lists:
- Mac OS X apps: http://osx.iusethis.com/user/mobilemind
Recent changes: http://osx.iusethis.com/feed/mobilemind - iPhone apps: http://iphone.iusethis.com/user/mobilemind
Recent changes: http://iphone.iusethis.com/feed/mobilemind
Once you are signed up and sharing like this, iusethis will also identify like-minded neighbors by way of your application set. Note that the respective OS X and iPhone sites also have overall lists for New, Interesting and Top apps.
Hey Aaron are we iusethis neighbors? (PS- I too dropped Appigo To Do for the freeRemember the Milk app.) Poor Appigo, first To Do dropped for the free RTM app, and now AccuFuel has been replaced with the $4.99 Gas Cubby. All good apps, just a matter of preferences and $4-$5.
E-Learning Celeb? Tom, you flatter me. Stop. No, don’t stop. Keep it coming :D
Ironically, or not ironically, I have had an iusethis account for a while and never got around to populating it. Doing so now!
http://osx.iusethis.com/feed/mrch0mp3rs
http://iphone.iusethis.com/feed/mrch0mp3rs
Thanks for the kick in the butt to do it. There’s much we can learn from each other (generally, not just you and me, Tom) just in how we approach our work.
okay well…iphones are cool, but the I've been pretty impressed with windows mobile too. While the UI is not as flashy I have some really cool and nerdy apps on it. The primary driver for buying a windows mobile OS (instead of iphone) because at the time(around a year ago) it was about $200 cheaper and offered support for Plaxo! I'm sure iphone has many more apps, but it would be interesting to see a comparison of the top three mobile OS out there and the apps they support. I also use telenav which is one of the best turn-by-turn / animated GPS & driving apps I have seen on a phone (even a year later after it was released).
Windows Mobile?? Plaxo??? You speak THE DEVIL!!!!
Okay, you got me with the turn-by-turn GPS app — the iPhone so needs one badly.
I think Windows Mobile has a lot of apps, but like Palm they are all over the place as far as where to get them, their cost and their quality. Apple got that nailed down and it looks like Blackberry and Android are following suit.