When we get time, we will keep adding to this list, but here is a start.
Among all the things we find extremely useful, the ones we couldn’t do without are:
- Quickbooks — it makes payroll, accounting, taxes just so much easier. The 2008 edition on Mac wasn’t available when we got ours, and payroll in any case is only on Windows. That’s probably the only downside I could think of.
- Skype — Reza and I use it to talk all the time, and it is by far the best video chat for 2 people. Its performance and abilities downgrade quickly once you add more people, its quality is sometimes less than ideal and its desktop software crashes occasionally (on Mac 10.4). Aside from that, it has been quite flawless.
- Online events and conference listing websites. We’ve used Facebook Events, Upcoming, Meetup — and each of them have their pros and cons. Facebook Events works best if there is an event listing over there because we anyway spend time on Facebook, and it is easy to track upcoming events on the Facebook home page. Upcoming is harder to integrate with calendars — it kept breaking for me. Meetup is ok — but its interface is clumsy and of late I’ve hardly seen an event listed on meetup that I want to go to and is not already on Facebook.
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