New MacBook Pro 13
My new MacBook Pro 13″ arrived today! Woohoo! Unfortunately, the psychologist in me has assigned the joy of opening the new package to be the reward for finishing everything on today’s TODO list.
Update: Opened it. Woohoo!.
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Kevin Chiu
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Kevin Chiu
Agile Startup Tools
Jack Po, an experienced entrepreneur and local friend of mine, just posted some tools startups might find useful. While I agree with most of what he has to say, some healthy horizon-broadening is in order.
I’m new to the startup scene, but I’ve always been a tech guy. Here are my tools:
Website Registration: 1and1 has free private registration that you can toggle on or off. $7 is the base fee for a .com.
Website Hosting: Engine Yard (for rails), SliceHost (for custom stuff), Media Temple (for shared hosting), Google App Engine (easily scalable, but has had hiccups…)
DNS Hosting: I stick with whoever hosts my site. I’ve never had any problems.
Email, Calendar, Wiki, Internal Messaging: Google Apps
Actual Website: Ruby, Java, or Plain old HTML/CSS/jQuery
Phone: Skype, Grand Central (but GC keeps deleting my old messages… boo!), iPhone
Conference Calls: Skype – easy and free.
Surveys, Spreadsheets and Documents: Google Docs – The coolest part of this suite is the real-time collaboration. Plus, there’s a form-filler mode for the spreadsheet app that you can use to conduct surveys.
Newsletters: Google Groups (for continuous conversations) or Gmail email aliases with BCC (for periodicals).
Project Management: Lighthouse, Github, Google Code, Sourceforge, or just plain old face-time. I’m actually itching to build a way more intuitive project management system. But for now, I can live with these. (I used to use Basecamp, but it can be abused too easily…)
Website statistics: Google Analytics
Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Google Sitemaps
Code Tools: Linux Shell, TextMate, Eclipse
Computers: Apple Macs.
Presentations: Apple Keynote
Graphics: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Omnigraffle
So how does it compare with your previous one? I’m looking forward to your review of it.