MacPro 
It arrived on Monday morning, just before I left on a trip to the WES 2009 conference in Orlando. I got back on Wednesday but I made myself tidy up my physical desk before I unboxed it on Friday.
Now that it’s here and I’ve been using it for 1 day, 21 hours and 43 minutes (thanks to iStat) I can’t understand why I didn’t order one earlier. I always though that my two processor G5 was pretty cool, until now.
I decided that rather than migrate my old profile to my new machine, I should see how far Cloud computing has really taken me, and where does my ‘critical data’ really live. Besides it’s always nice to start with a clean machine and only install applications that you need (and actually use) rather than migrating the cobwebs (and unused preferences) from an old machine.
So here’s a list of (my) essential applications:
- MobileMe – now I have my Bookmarks, Calendar appointments, Contacts and Keychains, and most importantly all of my work documents from my iDisk
- 1Password – because life is too shortto remember things you can ‘write’ down
- Firefox – for all of those Add-ons that you can’t live without – 1Password, Better Gmail, Blank Canvas Signatures, Delicious Bookmarks, Gmail Manager, Google Gears, Web Developer, Xmarks, Xoopit
- Xmarks for Safari – love these syncing applications
- VMware Fusion – surpisingly easy to copy over Windows XP image from MacBook Air, and configure it for extra cores, memory and increase the disk space (boy does it run quickly on this machine, I think I may use the Office 2007 apps and not install the Mac native Office 2008)
- Perian – for all things digital in Quicktime
- Flip4mac – for playing WMV in Safari
- Tweetie – of course
- OmniFocus – the only ToDo application that works for me
- MarsEdit – for my blogs
- PreziDesktop – that I want to like
- Cooliris – because it’s cool
- Evernote
- Skitch
- TypeIt4Me
- DeliciousSafari
