Most Useful Tools or Apps of 2008
January 19th, 2009
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For this week’s Yammer question, we asked the team ‘What’s the most useful tool or application on any digital platform that you discovered in 2008′?
Good question… better answers:
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- Netvibes (or any RSS reader) has changed my life. I now have one central starting point for 90% of my web browsing. – Augi
- I have to go with Yammer. I didn’t think I’d like it, but, at least on some level, it keeps me connected with the hum of our FL office. The casual conduit dramatically lowers the barrier of communication and the exchange of ideas and culture we’ve seen since we adopted (compared to email/telephone) is incredible. -Brian
- Google Reader (top subscription is Techmeme). Can’t live without it! –Chris F.
- JOTT and Drop.io -Rich
- I’d have to go with stackoverflow.com (basically nerd heaven). It has an achievement system and is extremely informative. -James
- I have to say Google docs, because I lose everything but my gmail credentials, now I can take notes, save work, and even use spreadsheets as a ghetto Lighthouse. –Josh G.
- Since I love music, I’d have to go with the Shazam iphone app. -Elissa
- Cinema 4d. Coming from a more complex background of Maya and 3DS: it’s been a great challenge to learn something more simplistic, but just as powerful. The CS4 suite is great too. –Josh C.
- Evernote. All your work and personal notes synced from Desktop, Web and iPhone. Categorizable, tagable and searchable. Nothing better for a grocery list than that! -Melissa
- Netvibes - It’s my central hub to start the web. I check my email, and any social network that I participate in just one tab, then I read news, posts and anything else that intrigues me from there. -Omar
- Video chat application, multi-player games, VOIP applications for the Flash Player and AIR are now possible with a new project from Adobe code named “Stratus“. Client to Client communication, VERY DOPE! –Rey
- I am using Spiceworks for IT inventory managment, Help Desk ticketing, IT Services data management, and reporting. It’s powerful, runs locally, and best of all, free!” -Clinton
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Stephen Klein…
It is tough to narrow down my favorites, given the barrage of web and mobile apps that launched in 2008.
Evernote is certainly a gem of a find that stands out for me personally. It is a perfect organizational tool for filing my often chaotic thought process into tidy containers. The free iPhone app tie in with it’s addition of voice notes is brilliant.
Adobe Lightroom needs an honorable mention. I know, it didn’t come out in 2008 but I personally started using it exclusively this year and it continually impresses me. Any application that drives me to take more pictures just to utilize it’s abundant features deserves a tip of my hat.
I hope 2009 will bring us great digital tools to improve and assist our day to day lives. Sadly something tells me those few killer apps that will shine in 09′, will be amongst a sea of less useful goodies the masses can’t live with out… like fart noise apps. Sigh.