When I boot up my PC this is the usual order that I start my various essential applications:
- Twhirl (Twitter client)
- Windows Live Messenger (Instant messenger client)
- Mozilla Firefox (Web browser)
- Microsoft Outlook (Email, Calendar, Tasks)
- WinAmp (MP3 player)
Until I started using Twitter it used to be either Outlook or Windows Live Messenger that I fired up first.
Interestingly the first four are generally about connecting with people. It’s a very social place the internet.
What applications do you start first?
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Enneagram type FOUR and introvert (INFP), I am a non-stipendiary priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church, I sing with the NYCGB alumni choir, play guitar, play mahjong, write, draw and laugh…
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Well, depends. On linux:
mrxvt (nice terminal emulator, several windows & tabs everywhere)
emacs -f gnus
epiphany (nicer browser than firefox, with loads of tabs auto-loading and stuff)
pidgin (jabber/IM client)
On the mac:
Terminal
synergy (funky net-KM-sharing toy)
Safari
TextEdit (for work timesheet)
Thunderbird
Adium (ICQ/IM).
Methinks I might be a crusty old unix-head 😉
Me thinks you are Tim!
at work it’s XP so I have to start up all my systems that I use for serving the good customers of Tesco. This used to involve loading up a system that looks like DOS on crack and then opening at least 6 IE6 windows and scrolling through my favourites to get each site that I needed.
No longer! I now have a simple Start.html page sitting on my desktop that I hand coded and has all my IE based systems as individual links, so all I need to do is mouse down the page clicking each link – boom bang, each system opens in a new IE6 window. woop.
At home its Ubuntu on the laptop:
GNOME-Do loads on start up so I just hit space and return, up pops Firefox 2,
then I go for a terminal or more recently Terminator – a terminal that cn be split horz and vert so it gives me 4 independant terminals
Htop – system monitor in a terminal.
Amarok (music)
Pidgin (IM) if I’m feeling chatty
then in a new desktop I open up Thunderbird.
Everything else is either in Firefox (i.e.twitterfox) or I have access to using GNOME-Do (which is like Quicksilver for Mac) and i just start typing.
….coming to think of it when I’m on top of emails and comments, I might just do a WP blog about my laptop setup.