2011 1

Software update

Time for the annual update on software I use. This time, I’ve got Wakoopa to help me with the relative usage as well. Here’s the top 100 software / web apps I’ve used recently, and how long I spent on them. Gmail 186361 seconds Notepad++ 130641 seconds Google Chrome 79879 seconds GitHub 43780 seconds Windows Command Prompt 40967 seconds Microsoft Excel 32578 seconds Microsoft Word 27067 seconds Microsoft PowerPoint 27059 seconds Windows Explorer 20902 seconds Google Docs 17989 seconds Foxit Reader 17001 seconds Microsoft Outlook 15855 seconds Internet Explorer 15830 seconds Google Search 15616 seconds Skype 14423 seconds Media Player Classic 14159 seconds Google Groups 7061 seconds Google Calendar 5531 seconds Wesabe 2814 seconds Google Analytics 2665 seconds TeamViewer 1985 seconds RGui 1875 seconds LinkedIn 1528 seconds YouTube 1400 seconds Stack Overflow 1167 seconds Acrobat Connect 964 seconds Kongregate 914 seconds HTML Help 871 seconds PicPick 790 seconds Zoundry Raven 684 seconds Mockingbird 657 seconds Twitter 655 seconds iStockphoto 590 seconds 7-Zip 584 seconds Buzznet 552 seconds Inkscape 516 seconds Bitbucket 499 seconds Microsoft Visio 496 seconds Paint.NET 474 seconds IrfanView 461 seconds Tableau Public 436 seconds µTorrent 435 seconds HandBrake 422 seconds Check Point Endpoint Security 411 seconds Windows Task Manager 385 seconds Microsoft Project 372 seconds IETester 347 seconds Google Maps 340 seconds eBay 310 seconds Spokn 270 seconds Firefox 269 seconds Google Calendar Sync 259 seconds Windows Calculator 247 seconds PayPal 246 seconds JsonView 220 seconds Windows Live Writer 184 seconds Junction Link Magic 152 seconds WinDirStat 142 seconds Kindle 139 seconds XAMPP 127 seconds Wakoopa 105 seconds Dropbox 100 seconds Office Help Viewer 99 seconds PrimoPDF 94 seconds PuTTY 84 seconds Python 80 seconds Flavors.me 75 seconds Google Sites 71 seconds Process Explorer 70 seconds Windows Volume Control 63 seconds Wikipedia 58 seconds Nitro PDF Reader 57 seconds Management Console 47 seconds PythonWin 45 seconds Windows Based Script Host 45 seconds WinDiff 45 seconds VLC Media Player 39 seconds ClipX 35 seconds Windows Installer 35 seconds The Internet Movie Database 32 seconds ImageShack 31 seconds WordPad 25 seconds TeraCopy 22 seconds Skype Portable 22 seconds Picasa Web Albums 20 seconds Syncplicity 17 seconds Google Reader 16 seconds Google Talk 15 seconds VirtualDub 12 seconds Adobe Manager 10 seconds FreeCall 10 seconds Notepad 8 seconds Codebase 5 seconds eTrust ITM 5 seconds Google Checkout 5 seconds GDI++ Tray Notifier 5 seconds ImgBurn 2 seconds Virtual Desktop Manager 2 seconds Tesseract201 2 seconds TortoiseHg 0 seconds Comments Somnath 1 Mar 2011 4:38 pm: More time on Gmail than browsers - how are you accessing Gmail then? S Anand 6 Mar 2011 8:51 pm: @Somnath, mostly breaking through proxies – see http://goo.gl/6wyg0 and http://goo.gl/DNtui. @Thej, no idea I’m afraid, but before I used Wakoopa, I was using https://gist.github.com/857652 which worked just fine, except that it wasn’t social and didn’t have the pretty charts. You might want to tweak that for Linux. Thejesh GN 5 Mar 2011 5:29 pm: It doesnt run on Linux (only PC n MAC). Anything for me? Shankar V 28 Feb 2011 3:10 am: hi Anand how do you generate this list? Wakoopa is blocked at Infy. So could not check that one out. Also, surprised to note that you are a Chrome user against FF. I have used both and my preference is still FF. S Anand 28 Feb 2011 6:38 am: I work out of client sites – so sites aren’t blocked. Plus, it includes software from my home laptop. I shifted to Chrome a while ago, even for development, mostly because it’s faster than FF. The only thing I miss is Firebug, really.

2009 1

twofifty.org

It’s been a good movie month for me, and I’ve managed to nudge closer to my target of watching the IMDb Top 250. But one tool I had in the past, that I sorely miss, is twofifty.org. It’s a now-defunct site that kept track of the IMDb Top 250, and let you strike off the movies that you had watched. You could see which movies you hadn’t seen, keep score, and discuss the movies. Since it’s demise, my movie watching slowed down as well. Earlier this month, I set up a similar site at 250.s-anand.net. It has the same basic function. You can log in, strike out movies that you’ve seen, and keep track of what’s left to see. For the more technically minded, the source-code is at two-fifty.googlecode.com. ...

2006 1

Google Spreadsheets

I got an invite for Google Spreadsheets. Very impressive AJAX interface. Comments Dhar 9 Jun 2006 11:36 am: Tried Google Spreadsheets. Love the concept, but I seem to be missing the Grand Picture. How is Google going to integrate things like Calendar, Spreadsheets, Notebook, Browser Sync to give us an “Aha” moment? The glue that should hold these applications together seems to be missing. Quite a few of them are very average and scratch the itch for a small section of web population. Nothing earthshaking like Gmail or search. :( S Anand 9 Jun 2006 2:31 pm: Funnily, the very apps you mentioned (Calendar, Notebook, Spreadsheets and Browser Sync) are the ones I use the most – as much as GMail and search! You’re right, there isn’t much integration, except perhaps between Calendar and GMail. Maybe it’s coming. But even as standalone apps, I’m surprised at how much I use them. I’ll write about how I’m using these sometime… Madhu 12 Jun 2006 7:03 pm: Its more when than how i think

2005 4

Google Reader

Google Reader. Gmail principles applied to RSS. You can subscribe to posts, label feeds and star RSS items. The reader suggests items from your subscriptions based on your interest.

Kiko

Kiko Calendar looks like a promising online calendar, offering “A powerful and flexible servlet API that allows third party developers to produce tools which enhance the value of your Kiko Calendar.”

Gmail is fast

As Jeremy put it, GMail is really damn fast. Faster than desktop email. I prefer it to Outlook, and hence to my work e-mail ID.

Google Maps

Google Maps. Only has the US for now. But that may change, given that not to mention that google has been primarily focused on the u.s. market and is now turning their full attention to the global marketplace. The interface, as always with Google, is fantastic. This is the way to go for Web applications. via Google Blogoscoped. Comments m1108061928989 9 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Actually, google maps produced better routes too (more intuitive or just plain luck in my case ) but 2 consecutive routes cant be coincidence S Anand 9 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Their database may be from Keyhole, whom they acquired recently. I didn’t see anything from India on it, though. Sathish 9 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: This is an interesting way to comment.. TOPFRAME 9 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: their interface is pretty good.. but, I wonder if they could do the maps of India in the same manner..

2002 1

Google blog

A Google blog. And while we’re on the subject, I’ve found Google labs’ glossary very useful. So are some Google applications based on their API. (Incidentally, their server is overloaded. I tried getting a key yesterday, put it politely declined.)