TOP 10 TOOLS 2007
Tim Stahmer

Tim is an Instructional Technology Specialist for a large public school district in Northern Virginia, near Washington DC. He has been blogging for four and half years at AssortedStuff.

Tim's Top 10 Tools as at 27 July 2007

1. MacBook Pro - Without a doubt the best, most reliable notebook computer I've ever used.

2. Firefox - What else would anyone use?

3. NetNewsWire - While web-based RSS aggregators are good, I prefer a client program for the speed and greater flexibility, and this is the best.

4. ecto - A great tool for composing, editing, and posting to my blog.  It has a few bugs but is still much better than even the WordPress interface.

5. WordPress - However, this is still the tool running the show and doing an excellent job of it.

6. Aperture - Fast becoming an indispensable tool for organizing my photo collection along with a pretty good image editor for basic functions.

7. Parallels - For those few times when I absolutely have to use a Windows application

8. Apple Mail - I don't care much about email so I want a tool that's simple and does a good job of filtering the spam crap. Mail is it.

9. del.icio.us - This is a great tool for keeping track of both what I find on the web and what others have found.

10. Coda - My new favorite program for building and managing web sites.