What I Do Meme: Computer Technology That Supports My Genealogy Hobby

The ‘What I Do’ meme suggested by GeneaBloggers. Defined as “what you use in terms of technology to either run your genealogy business or pursue your family history as a hobby”. You’ve already heard most of mine but here we go again.

Hardware: DELL Dimension 9200 desktop, Intel® Core™ 2 CPU, 250 GB hard-drive, 4GB Ram, two 19″ LG monitors, Gyration cordless keyboard, Logitech cordless mouse, rechargeable batteries

External storage:

• 16 GB flash-drive
• DVD’s
• Western Digital 120 GB USB drive

Online storage: Carbonite

Backup:

• CDBurnerXP for making DVD’s
• Syncback used daily to back up to external hard-drive and flash-drive
• WordPress Database Backup plugin and Hostgator cpanel backup for website

Firewall: ZoneAlarm free version

Virus protection: Avira free version

Spyware: none

File cleaner:

• CCleaner
• Duplicate Cleaner
• TuneUp Utilities

Printer: Brother HL-2140, rarely used

Scanner: Epson 3170

Phone: Skype

Mobile media: none

Music player: VLC Portable

Car audio: radio, cassette player, rarely used

eBook Reader: none

Browser: Firefox

Blog: WordPress, self-hosted

RSS: FeedBurner for burning, Sage for reading

FTP: FileZilla Portable

File-Sharing: Dropbox, SugarSync

Text editor:

• Notepad++ Portable
• Jarte

Graphics:

• ACDSee Pro Photo Manager
• Adobe Photoshop Elements
• GeoSetter
• Gimp Portable
• Paint.NET
• Photo Mechanic
• Pixlr Editor
• XnView Portable

Screen capture:

• FastStone Capture Portable
• Pixlr Grabber

Social media: Twitter, email, blog & blog comments, vaguely considering others

Social bookmarking: None

Social profile: None, vaguely considering becoming sociable

URL shortener: None

Office suite: OpenOffice Portable

E-mail: Thunderbird

Calendar: Lightning and my $3.95 paper one

Accounting:

• AceMoney
• Excel
• OpenOffice Calc

PDF generator: PDF Creator

Genealogy database: Legacy Family Tree

Genealogy tools: about 1,001 bookmarked sites, Transcript, LTools

Other tech stuff:

• 7-Zip Portable – zip files
• Audacity Portable – sound editing
• EverNote 2 – my beloved
• Foxit Reader Portable – PDF reading and minor editing
• KeePass Portable – passwords
• Kompozer Portable – HTML editor
• TiddlyWiki
• VirtualDub Portable – video editor for AVI’s
• Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable

For other technology to dazzle your mind see Software.

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