Here’s my attempt at packing tonight before I head over to the airport in the morning. What I did while I was packing was try to put together “packages” so that it would make it easier to pack. I then went from that to packing the packages where they would fit best. I’m still not sure I want to risk taking my Rebel XTI without a protective case of some sort (see what I used in the video. 
) So I might end up replacing that with my point and shoot since it saves space. We’ll see though.
I’m getting ready to take a trip out to Denver, CO for the week to go to an iPhone SDK Training class held by Pragmatic Studio and thought it was a perfect time to give Ultralight Packing a try. Andrew Hyde recently wrote about his adventures last month and after reading his story I thought I would give it a try. I’m planning on capturing my adventures with Qik and my iPhone so you can get a feel for what it’s like. Feel free to track that progress on my Qik account. I’ll be posting a video of my packing abilities once I pack up tomorrow. But I thought I’d give you a little insight on what I was planning on taking.
Update: So I’ve made some updates to my list above, you’ll notice them in bold. I’m going to wear a little more than I thought since when I land in Denver the weather is supposed to be around 28F. Of course the remaining days the weather is pushing high 40s, low 50s, so the rest of my clothes should suffice.
I’ve been playing around with Jing Pro since it was released and have to say that it’s pretty impressive. First off I absolutely love that you can produce a H.264 video. It’s a very nice feature! I also like that you can upload to some of the popular video hosting services like YouTube, Viddler, etc. I was hoping there would be some sort of simple editing capabilities in it, maybe “enhance” the audio a bit, or trim off the beginning or end of the video. But at least if you produce with the H.264 you can edit the video in something else. Maybe I’m be make a video showing you some new features of it and what not. We’ll see!
So I made some changes to Twitpress so I’m testing them to see if they work. I’m not sure if I should use this or Twitterfeed. I would like it to be a shortened URL, so either use tinyURL or some other service would be helpful. What does everyone else use?
UPDATE: So I was just doing a search and found Twitter Tools from Alex King that looks to be promising! Guess I’ll have to play around with this idea for a little bit longer. Still curious to know what others use though.
So I was walking back from a different building on campus and though that I’d give Qik a try and see if I could get it to send a message to twitter saying that I was live. Needless to say, it didn’t work. Guess I’ll have to work on Qik this afternoon. Anyways, here’s the video from this afternoon.
I saw a post like this last weekend and thought that it’s time that I do one of these again myself. Everyone seems to change what they use every now and then, so I though by updating this maybe it would get other people to look at what they use and maybe make a post like this as well.
What Hardware?
Below is a picture of my desk. It’s not my whole desk, but rather the spot I use the most of. I try to keep this area as clean as possible so that when I’m working I’m focused on what I’m doing. Head on over to flickr to see some notes on the photo.
My computer is a 1st Generation 15″ Macbook Pro (I know it’s old, but still gets the job done!). It has 2GB or Ram, a 2.0 GHz Core Duo, and is running leopard. I use a Apple Wireless Keyboard, Dell optical mouse, and a Dell 24″ monitor. Probably my most favorite piece on my desk (or not one my desk in this picture) would have to be my iPhone 3G. Whether dealing with clients or trying to find somewhere to eat for lunch, it is a lifesaver when I’m not in my office and I’m not sure what I would do with out it!
I also wanted to touch on the fact that I also have a MSIWind Netbook running Mac OS X Leopard. I LOVE this thing! I mainly use if for traveling to and from work, when I’m hanging out at the coffee shop, or when I’m on the road and don’t feel like bringing my MBP with me. I can do some coding on it, so I’ve installed Rails, TextMate, all the usual programming-focused applications that I’ll describe below.
My Software
Well I spend most of my time in TextMate, and Firefox. I do also use terminal.app a lot. For email I use both Gmail and Mail.app for both work and personal/client work. Everything gets setup with Google’s SMTP server though, so that it saves my emails in Gmail.
I prefer Firefox over Safari, though I tend to use both. I also use CSSEdit for any CSS styles I need to create, although I’m not a designer so I either have someone else do that work for me, or I try and make something really simple and let my clients decide. I also use Photoshop when I try to do some graphic work (however it’s not on my Hackbook! 
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Other than that, I try to keep it pretty simple. When I’m not programming I have all sorts of programs I use, MS Office (the occasional paper writing that needs to be done), Handbrake, Adium (chat), Skype, etc.
What do you use?
