What are the Best Tech Products of 2010?

Theresa Smith — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:31:57 +0000

Michael Arrington, founder and co-editor of TechCrunch and the world’s fourth-most-powerful blogger, according to Technorati, has released “2010: My fifth Annual List of the Tech Products I Love and Use Every Day.”

According to Arrington:

This is a simple list of the tech products that are an integral part of my day – work or play. Some have withstood the test of time and I just can’t live without. Others are newcomers that have captured my imagination.

I use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and I would not be as productive or happy without all of them. There are now 24 products on the list.

Arrington writes that TechMeme, Skype and WordPress are the only products that have been on his list for all five years. The entire list of products follows:

Android

Animoto

Apple Magic Mouse

Delicious

Dropbox

Evernote

Facebook

Foursquare, Loopt, and Gowalla

Gmail

Google Docs

Google Voice

Hulu

Kodak Zi8

MOG, Pandora and Spotify

Scribd and Docstoc

Skitch

Skype

TechMeme

TripIt

Twitter

WordPress

Yammer

YouTube

What tech products do you love and use everyday?

Check out these 10 Free Social Applications for Macs

Theresa Smith — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:13:36 +0000

Have a Mac? If so, check out Barb Dybwad’s article “10 Fabulous Free Social Apps for Mac” on Mashable. Barb writes, “In this post we’ll take a look at 10 gratis programs for connecting to your social world via OS X. From file sharing to instant messaging, from Twitter () to social television, there is very likely something on this list for you.”

photo credit: mark sebastian

Here’s an abbreviated breakdown of the top 10 applications from Barb’s article:

Dropbox. “Looking for a dead easy way to share even large files with people quickly? Check out Dropbox (), a great utility app for the Mac (it actually runs on Windows and Linux () as well) that essentially gives you 2 free GB of unrestricted cloud file storage.”
Skitch. “We really can’t rave enough about Skitch () (we recently profiled it in our fun image generators list). Part screen capture tool, part easy doodling app, Skitch is also a dead simple way to quickly share screencaps, images and illustrations with others.”
Tweetdeck. In an informal survey I conducted on LinkedIn back in March, Tweetdeck won hands down as the favorite Twitter client. Enough said.
Gruml. “Gruml is a desktop application that synchronizes with Google Reader () for feed reading and brings many of the social features of gReader along with it.” Gotta check this one out.
NewNewsWire. “If you don’t already use Google Reader and are looking for a good desktop RSS and Atom client for the Mac, check out NetNewsWire.”
Flock. Flock is a social web browser that Mashable recently reviewed here.
Adium. “If you use more than one instant messaging service regularly, you’re going to want a chat client that can support multiple protocols and accounts seamlessly. Not only does Adium () deliver that, but its default sound when your contacts log in or out or send you a message is a quacking duck.”
Boxee. This one sounds great, “Boxee is basically a socially-enabled media center for your Mac, allowing you to browse both your personal media collection as well as your favorite online video services in one convenient and easy to use interface. It’s designed to give you a great experience for internet content on your television screen, and works with the Apple Remote control that ships with a number of Mac models (and is available for purchase separately).”
Hulu desktop. “If you’re a television and/or movie buff with a penchant for streaming content, the desktop app offers a nice fullscreen viewing experience as well as support for operation via the standard Apple Remote.”
Skype. “Skype () is one of the leading voice over IP (VoIP) services on the web, and you can use it to make free voice calls between any two computers running the software. For an astonishingly small amount of money you can do a lot of other cool things with Skype too, like send text messages from your computer, get low-cost international calling to landlines around the world, forward calls to your cellphone, get a “Skype In” number your friends can use to make a local call to you from regular phones, get voicemail services and more.”

What other free social applications for Mac do you like? What’s missing from this list?

skype – Pathway Communications

What are the Best Tech Products of 2010?

Check out these 10 Free Social Applications for Macs