Top 10 Tools I Can’t Live Without
We all have our own unique ways of working. A large part of any persons individual productivity is the tools they use. Here is my top 10 Must Have Tools (and why), please add yours in the comments!
Firefox - I started out with Mosaic, then Netscape. For years I was an Internet Explorer user but then Microsoft dropped the ball and the Mozilla team ran with it. Firefox is stable, extensible and fast enough. One of the killer features that made me defect was the tabbed browsing. Of course most web browsers now have that feature. Firefox plus Greasemonkey takes an already rockin’ browser into a world of its own.- ScribeFire - One of my main jobs is writing on blogs. This means lots of linking, bookmarking, making notes and of course the actual writing. I would say using Scribefire I can do it all in half the time. Scribefire is a Firefox plugin that provides blogging tools including a centralized word-like text editing interface.
Skype - Many of my calls are long distance as it is rare for me to have a client in the same country as I live. Skype makes these calls free or much cheaper and allows me to roam around and not be tied to a land-line. With my trusty headset I might look like a geek but I can hear and be heard right across the globe.- Fastmail - While many people swear by the free Google GMail my web email service of choice is the paid service at Fastmail. The main advantage is as well as having a web client you can also access your email using imap, allowing me to sync my desktop client and see in a web browser exactly the same email store.
- WebDav - Talking of web based storage, a fantastic way to get your files on the go is WebDav. Drag and drop your files and folders just like you were working locally. Check out your web host to see if this is an option.
- SSH - This is an extremely nerdy choice but it has been a life saver in the past. SSH allows you a secure command line login to your remote server. On Windows of course you can use Remote Desktop, and other platforms will have VNC, but when the proverbial hits the fan you can rely on SSH and old school commands to get the job done.
WordPress - I love WordPress, I wouldn’t recommend any other blogging platform for the individual or small team. But WordPress can be so much more than a blog! Use it for publishing your corporate website, internal project documentation, team collaboration, making notes, bookmarking, even as a discussion platform.- Photoshop - There are cheaper options. I will probably never use even half the features. Photoshop still rules. There is little it can’t do, and if you wander into any design studio you can be sure there will be at least one machine running it. Productivity means being able to do what you need to do well and fast. Once you have learned it, Photoshop makes that happen for working with images.
- BlogBridge - I need my RSS feeds and I need them with me. While many people can argue in favor of their fave web clients I keep returning to BlogBridge happily time after time. It is a Java based desktop application so works wherever Java works and stores your feeds offline so you can read on the train, in the air or bus home.
Flickr - Flickr for me is more than just an online photo gallery, it is a photography archive, a community and a source of royalty-free images (Creative Commons Licensed pics). It’s useful, fun and a constant source of education.
OK, I have shown you my must-have tools, what do you use on a daily basis and why? Let me know in the comments …
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Posted on October 4, 2007 by Chris Garrett
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I agree with (and use) most of those you list, and add two more:
1. Snagit, by TechSmith. I don’t do enough with images to need Photoshop, and Snagit, for $40, is the bomb.
2. JibberJobber, which I use as a CRM tool. I manage blogger relationships, customers, prospects, etc. and always have my JibberJobber.com window open. In integrates with Skype so I’ll frequently go to a contact and dial out (with one click) to make a phone call… also integrates with Google Maps, Anagram, LinkedIn and more.
Jason Alba
CEO - JibberJobber.com
Author - I’m on LinkedIn — Now What???
I need to get a license of Snagit, that’s the one that allows you to annotate screen grabs right? I think I first heard of it from Sean D’Souza if that is the one I am thinking of.
Google Documents is the only one I don’t see listed that I use. When I’m doing reviews I’ll take notes in it and then go back and flesh it out into a full blown review. Then I click Share and send it over to my proofreader to touch it up. The formatting works fine in WordPress Posts so I just cut and paste it in, thrown in a picture and ads and I’m done. Also this gives me access to all my material from any computer. As a backup once the reviews are complete I archive them off as RTF’s to my local machine.
Here are couple of more tools I used everyday:
- Textpad: a better replacement for notepad. But as a developer, I can not live without it. I love the search functionality it offers. It also provides me with the ability to match braces when I am coding!
-Sharepoint: use it as a document repository for our team.
- FileZilla: great for ftp
-Squirrel: if you have to work with databases, it is a great tool to manage db and run sqls
- xat image optimizer: for compressing images
Other than the ones listed I can’t live without Gmail and Google Talk. I run the mobile version of both of these on my Blackberry.
This allows me to constantly stay connected and as long as I have cell coverage I can take advantage of those spare minutes I always seem to have waiting for my next meeting.
This keeps me much more productive (at least that’s what I tell my wife when I’m playing with my phone).
@Cigar Jack - I hadn’t thought of using it that way but that seems a really good collaborative approach
It must be nice having a proof-reader too 
@Khalid - I agree with you about Textpad but I ended up going with Visual Studio and Zend when I was still programming because I got drawn into the mega-ide-suite culture.
@Tac - I keep looking at the Blackberry but so far have stuck with my slow and clumsy Pocket PC machine. One of the reasons I got it was for remote desktop and skype, but found I used those a lot fewer occasions than I expected. Data plans in UK are lousy too
Excellent post
I use most of these myself but one of the most important sites I have added to my list of tools would have to Bloglines.
I used to spend half my day just trying to keep up with the blogs I like to read, but with Bloglines I now have a place to read all my favorite blogs and news feeds without the need to open 60 or 70 sites a day.
It also keeps track of any changes. A couple times my proofreader reworded a few things I didn’t agree with so I was able to go back and see what was changed. Multiple people can edit at the same time too.
SEO for Firefox
Google documents
Google analytics
There’s more but I just heard the kettle go on
luv it man
My most used software tools, huh? Be happy to share (these are linux apps, btw):
Firefox (duh)
Amarok (GXine media player engine) - Great for ipod/music management, listening to streams (I’ve heard it’s ready for the new generation of ipods, as well)
Comix - Sequential image viewer to read comics
Gnomebaker - Pretty simple, familiar and reliable burning utility, graphically akin to Nero.
Gaim - For talking to my idiot friends
XMame - Because I love old arcade games (namely
VLC - Again, duh. Available on nearly any platform with the most out of the box media compatibility.
KTorrent - For torrent files - I’ve had amazing luck with download speeds using this application; also very easy to manage.
Kolour Paint - MSPaint clone, pretty darn handy for basic image editing.
I know that’s fairly basic list, this is my leisure laptop - but the above listed applications have solely allowed me to replace Windows very comfortably. The best part is you don’t have to hunt down cracked software or shell out $20+ for reliable & basic applications. Imagine that…
peace out-
Well, some of those are great, but there’s a few that are missing.
-FireFTP: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684 FTP add on for Firefox that allows you to use a FTP client in your browser.
-CCleaner: http://www.ccleaner.com/ free program that you can use to clean up your computer of nasty broken links, dead registry values, and space consuming temp files.
-Process explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/processesandthreads/processexplorer.mspx
Check processes that are running on your computer and what programs are relying on these running programs…It even tells you what processes are using the internet.
-adaware: How can you not mention a spyware remover? You must have a slow running PC.
-hushmail.com: Free email that keeps your security in mind.
-litestep.com: Change your desktop for free! Get rid of that glitchy explorer and use litestep today! Add features such as winamp, CPU and RAM monitoring, plus a custom look, all for free!
-deviantart.com: If you have photoshop, you should have this site bookmarked for photoshop brushes and styles that people give out on the site for free.
oh yeah, all of these resources are completely free.
Chris,
Seeing that you are in the middle of a Digg, reminded me of my favorite Digg monitor, pMetrics Spy
I write a lot of documents and a PDF writer is a must have. I use Docudesk deskPDF and find it very reliable for all my various publications.
Agree on wordpress too. - must have!
UltraEdit - powerful text editor. column mode saved my hide so many times
gadwin printscreen - freeware I use for screencaps when creating system documentation
microsoft money - gotta keep my checkbook balanced somehow
musikCube - no frills music player that loads surprisingly fast. I don’t need to see album art when I’m crunching numbers
Checkout http://www.theclassconnection.com
TheClassConnection has a ton of efficient study tools:
# Digital Flashcards make memorizing a breeze.
# Search Public Files by class for easy research.
# Find a Tutor, or offer to tutor a course.
# Keep Organized with customizable community calendars.
# Store Files Online and access them from anywhere.
# Organize Study Groups with online homepages.
Firefox
Gmail
Google Docs
Google Notebook
thats my must have tools
Being a web developer, I would say:
the browsers (FF, IE, Opera, and Safari)
Textmate
Color Schemer Studio
Photoshop
BustAName.com
Adwords Editor
The Rails Wiki
SSH
grep
Porter-Cable cordless hammer drill
Makita circular saw
Milwaukee reciprocating saw
Oh….my bad.
Picasa
Textpad
VNC
SSH
VLC
Ryan,
If I may make a suggestion. Drop GAIM and load Pidgin. GAIM has been abandoned and pidgin has taken it’s place. The newest version is really nice as well.
And the best one is http://www.fooxy.com at he end of the day, the most beatiful babes on the net.
Eat my ass. You’re an idiot!
Gives me first page results from both Yahoo and Google
Gives me first page results from both Yahoo and Google. I can also recommend search results to others
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I’m going to chime in with another text editor:
Notepad++
Its free, has all kinds of fun syntax hilighting, tabbed documents, and it can run standalone. I always carry a copy on my jump drive.
I still can’t see why people swear by Wordpress.
For personal uses, Blogger is sufficient isn’t it? It can even be hosted at ur own domain and thus, it will look ‘pro’ enuff right?
As for the other softwares, I’m happy to say I’m using 70 % of them!
aptana (ide for html, js and more)
FastStone Capture (screen captures, pickup colors)
FireFTP
Firebug
Firefox
Gmail
Google Webmaster tools
Google (so ubiquitous you forget your using it to look up every little thing)
http://www.sxc.hu (stock photos)
1. VMware, absolutely priceless.
2. µTorrent, simply the best torrent program hands down.
3. Blocklist Manager, creates an IP blocking .dat file you import into Utorrent and keeps the baddies away.
4. MIRC, help on any topic imaginable and file sharing.
5. Gotomypc, I stay connected to my servers at home using this or TightVNC.
6. WinNetPort, keep an eye on things.
7. NOD32 Antivirus, Windows isn’t Linux and when I’m using it I need protection. Tried them all and this ones the best.
8. ACDSee, Been using this to view my pics for years, Windows picture and fax viewer makes me cringe.
9. Alcohol 120%, If I’m not mounting and ISO I’m burning one.
10. AIM, I live on AIM… It’s a disease.
I find this suite of image editing tools to be extremely useful. Like Google Docs, images may be retained so that you can access them from any browser.
http://www.poobutton.com
Cheers!
Jennifer
Great set of tools.
I agree with most of your tools but want to add one more. When I’m working on a windows machine (60% of the time) I need cygwin.
The ability to use a real command line with all the usual tools (find, grep, etc.) is a huge productivity boost.
I use Congoo.com to get free access to sites like WSJ.com, Morningstar, FT.com, etc. Great news for my industry too.
I dont understand why you use that fastmail. the interface is horrible. GMail has pop3 if at-home access is your only reason.
1. Pencil
2. Paper
3. Adobe Illustrator
4. The ‘offline’ network location on my Powerbook
Also I like Textmate enough to have paid for it but I could live without it. Same with my aging Powerbook - when I was computerless after Katrina I did okay borrowing my boyfriends’ junked Windows boxes. I was glad to get my own machine again of course.
But perhaps the tools that contribute to the productivity of an illustrator browsing the web because she’s blocking on a project are different than the tools that contribute to the productivity of a professional blogger.
A wiki like ScribbleWiki
Tools I can’t live without:
1: Fire.
2: Knife.
3: Clothes.
4: Soap.
5: …
6: ….
7: …..
8: ……
9: …….
10: …….
Seriously, I’m sick of top ten lists, and I’m sick of people saying shit like “zomg I can’t live without skype or napster or wordpress” or any other mediocre service with 100 alternatives. Not to mention the fact that if you can’t live without a computer, you fail at life. And I say that as an adult IT Professional who’s used computers for work, play, and sociality for my entire life.
Dropsend works great for sending large files. Nothing to download.
Many in the article and the comments are excellent, but I work mostly off of a portable hard drive, so some of my must-haves are:
- Portable Firefox
- Portable Filezilla
and some of the others from http://portableapps.com
and since I don’t want my data stolen if I lose my USB hard drive:
TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/)
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for mac …
quicsilver …
opera …
cuberduck …
sidenote …
writeroom …
Virtue Desktops - Two monitors are not enough if I still have to minimize stuff.
Growl - Only way I can keep up with all those little interruptions without them being interruptions.
Pidgin/Adium - All in one IM client.
A Better Finder Rename - I have yet to find a better way to batch rename files.
imdb - I would spend hours searching for stuff if imdb didn’t exist. Huge time save.
coyo7e: Agree 100%. I wish all those silly kids would do better at school instead of wasting electricity on meaningless barking… oops, pardon me, blogging
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I’m not a huge Microsoft fan, but they got Windows Live Writer right. I use it for all my blog writing now. You can save posts as drafts directly to your blog so you can start writing on one computer, save it as a draft and finish up later on a different pc. Plus there are plenty of add-ins for Amazon’s affiliate program, Firefox, Digg and many more.
The only tool anyone really needs: vi(m)
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You forgot the almighty Notepad =o
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VNC, nerdy? Are you fucking kidding me?
That’s like saying wrenches are nerdy tools for plumbers. The people who think SSH is nerdy have no need for it or are web developers who are barely capable of using a computer at all, probably use macs and are scared of the command line, and have no business using SSH.
Who are you? No seriously. Who are you?
Why should I give a flying fuck about 10 tools you may or may not be able to live with?
Note to you: You’re not important, no one cares.
Thanks for the list. But not all seems that useful for my use. I already using half the tools but the other half is not as useful.
Try www2.meebo.com
It just rocks, especially when googletalk is taking too long to load. You can log into gtalk,msn, yahoo chat, etc. all at the same time.
As a developer, I’d add:
* source navigator (source code editor)
* gcc,g++,valgrind,strace,gdb,ddd,/proc
(some very sharp knives for hackers)
* autoconf (the ./configure thingy)
* vim, xemacs (quick editors)
Not a bad list of applications. There are other alternatives depending on which platform you work on.
Fastmail prompts for a Referrer. You should let us know your fastmail username (unless you are concerned about spam) for the referral credits.
I prefer open source/ freewares instead of paying extra money for software licience.
My favourite:
(1) ScreenHunter 5.0 Free (Screen Capture)
(2) IrfanView (Image Viewer, Editor)
(3) avast! (Virus Protection)
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In no particular order, just as they pop into my head:
Flickr
Firefox
Gmail
Snagit (LOVE this program. It truly is fabulous - great for a QA tester to show what’s going on.)
Pidgin for windoze / Adium for Mac
Photoshop
iGTD
Quicksilver
Scrivener
DevonThink
I always have those last 4 open on my laptop (they’re all Mac programs).
Great tools.
I rely a lot on
-Editeur. Love it. Free. Great for any coding
-The Gimp. Arguably just as powerful as Photoshop and 100% free. Search it.
-Spybot & Adaware.
>>>Foden:
deference is badly needed online. A place where it is so easy to forget that humans are behind the logins. True character is revealed when one believes there are no repercussions of words spoken.
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Treo 700p
TCPMP - The Core Pocket Media Player
ScrBtn - launcher
Resco Explorer - file mgr
treo to 1/8″ adapter for car stereo
LINUX
Akregator - rss reader
Tilda - pop-up terminal
Deluge - bittorrent client
ssh
dual monitors
VLC
x11vnc
VMPlayer
Belkin laptop `desk’ in bright orange
lifehacker.com
Marshall and Satan (the dog and cat), who are always there to `help’ me type.
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No particular order:
-Firefox
-Gmail
-Notepad++
-NetVibes
-FastStone Capture
-FireFTP
-del.icio.us
-Audacity (full version & portable)
…and others
1. Yahoo Business Email
2. http://www.Airset.com
3. http://www.Vitalist.com
4. Foldershare
5. PDF995
6. Ccleaner
7. AVG Antivirus
8. Zone Alarm
9. Zip Genius
10. Picasa
Mine are really pedestrian (sorry)! I must have:
FireFox
Foxy Tunes - addon works well with many players
Screen Grad - very simple, very easy addon
Google Documents (notebook, spreadsheet, doc)
Google Reader
Gmail - with Better Gmail addon
Cooliris Previews addon
Adblock addon
I usually keep a saved list of indispensable tools installed in my computers. Here it is:
Utility:
- Mozilla Firefox [fw]
- Picasa [fw]
- IrfanView [fw]
- WinZip [®]
- Qlock [fw]
- ZDNet MailCall [fw]
- MS SyncToy [fw]
- CCleaner [fw]
- AZZ CardFile [$]
- Acrobat Reader [fw]
- AIDA 32 [fw]
- PowerDVD [®]
- PDF Writer
- DivX [$]
- Yahoo!Widgets (w/ 13 running widgets) [fw]
- DVD Decrypter [fw]
- VLC MediaPlayer [fw]
- ESB Calc [fw]
- ESB Unit Conversion [fw]
- Display Fusion [fw]
- Power Defragmenter [fw]
Aplicativos:
- MS Office Pro [®] & OpenOffice [fw]
- MoneySmith [$]
- Acronis TrueImage [®]
- Partition Magic [®]
- Google Earth [fw]
- Stellarium [fw]
Reference:
- Randon House [®]
- Steadman’s Medical Dictionary [®]
- Encarta Premium DVD 2007 [®]
Games:
- Pretty Good Solitaire [$]
- BlockOut [fw]
- Tetris [fw]
[®] = Registered Software
[$] = Registered Shareware
[fw] = Freeware
I have seen a few text editors but the one I like is EditPad. They have a freeware version or you can buy the pro edition
I see a few text editors on here but the one I like is called EditPad. They have a freeware version or you can pay for the pro version.
As a user of Linux (ubuntu), this is my list:
1- Firefox
2- Torrent download client (Deluge for now)
3- Gmail
4- Google RSS Reader
5- Google Desktop
6- Adobe flash professional
7- VLC player (videolan.org)
8- OpenOffice
9- livemocha.com
10- Adobe Acrobat reader
11- Japanese Anime
Fastmail?? WTF? The free version is definitely the worst web email provider I have ever seen.
Apart from disabling your email for not using it very often, there’s an added bonus: monthly bandwidth limitations. Add to that a screwed up interface and you’ve got the worst web email service, Ever!
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how could nobody mention paint.net.
its easily as good as GIMP, maybe not as many features but much more user-friendly, and a perfet alternative to photoshop.
When a select few of the plug-ins are added it becomes AWESOME!
how could nobody mention paint.net.
It is easily as good as GIMP, maybe not as many features but much more user-friendly, and a perfet alternative to photoshop.
When a select few of it’s plug-ins are added it becomes AWESOME!
Are you all using the (poor) browser’s bookmark facilities?
My starting point for the web is my huge collection of bookmarks. I couldn’t “live” without miTaggedMarks, a local bookmark manager that uses tags, like del.icio.us, but with far better functions to handle the tags and bookmarks.
I can’t live without Widgetop, my online Dashboard widgets in Firefox
Perl…
or whatever scripting language you personally prefer. I’m also a big fan of ruby. Some people choose to like python. Others just stick to shell scripting and awk/sed. Some people use applescript and Automator. Whatever platform you’re on and whatever scripting tool you use, these are absolutely invaluable tools.
When I look at my own computers, I realize very quickly that half of what I do every day is made possible by little scripts and helper applications that I’ve written myself, and none of that would be possible were it not for the scripting languages that make “rolling your own” so easy. I can’t imagine using a computer that didn’t have perl or ruby on it.
The one that I can not live without is onebox, unified messaging at one spot. Email, voicemail, FAX and my own 800 number, find me follow me, great tool. Have moved 3 times, I always get any communications I need in onebox.com.
I love Doodle for scheduling meetings and to organize other small tasks.
Besides many of the ones you mentioned I would add these:
Roboform (for passwords and auto-filling web forms)
Time & Chaos Intellect (email, contact manager, organizer, keyword searchable notes, calendar, etc.)
Bloglines (for RSS feeds)
Feedburner (Great synopsis of recent blog posts)
Akismet (great WordPress plugin that eliminates SLOGS and SPAM comments)
Technorati (find tags, great content, and authority sites to link from your blog)
MyBlogLog (to find other bloggers and help them find you)
StumbleUpon (my all time favorite Social Networking site)
Sphinn (to stay on top of SEO/SEM topics)
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Top 10 Tools In My Life
Chris Garrett wrote about the top ten online tools he finds most important; most of them being communications tools of some sort. In following his theme, I figured I would reveal my list, from a non-developer geek’s point of view:
Opera
Gmail
Go…
Fastmail is absolutely awesome! Sometimes people have a hard time passing up pretty graphics for actual functionality, but if you have a paid-fastmail account you already know what I mean. It’s one of those e-mail services you don’t hear a lot about but people in the know use it (one example is Leo Laporte). I’ve been a customer for a few years now and in addition to the best imap email service out there, they also provide paid members the best customer service I’ve ever been witness to.
If you want a free email account, go with gmail and more power to you. If you want additional features (IMAP etc) and outstanding support, go with Fastmail.fm
Lots of good tools. I’ve never heard of ScribeFire (now on my list of tools to try
Here are my faves:
Twitbin
meebodel.icio.us bookmarks
TinyURL
ZoomClouds
Tumblr
Feedburner
BlogBackupOnline
Zoho
RSS newsreaders: Newsgator, Bloglines, and Google Reader.
angela
http://angelacw.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/top-10-tools-i-cant-live-without/
I use Firefox and Photoshop. And Pivot instead of WordPress.And Google Notebook for notes.
And thanks for ScribeFire - i’ll check out that one.
Programs I use on a daily basis include:
Remote Desktop
Textpad
Other apps that I think I need on a daily basis include a good antivirus program and firewall (personal preference is sygate)
Notepad2
Firefox
PHPMyAdmin
FireBug
Photoshop
Filezilla
RealVNC
Flickr
Google
OpenOffice
fastmail
del.icio.us
bloglines
flicker
windows xp reversi
openoffice
webdrive
my cell phoe
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Favorite tools in no particular order
perl
sh/ksh
awk
sed
X1
sendmail
the infamous for loop
expect
ssh
samba
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I’ve used Fastmail as a paid user for a few years now and it’s my primary email provider. Yes, the user interface is not pretty but it doesn’t bother me. The real key features for me are reliability, support and most of all spam filtering. Fastmail is awesome for filtering out the spam, at worst I get about 2 spams in my my spam folder a week, even after years of use; compare that to Gmail which dumped a dozen spams on my in the very first day of use!
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Great lists! What I can’t believe is that I didn’t see ClipMark’s anywhere. I find it invaluable as a tool!
If you like WebDAV, check out the BarracudaDrive home server with integrated WebDAV server.
http://barracudaserver.com/products/BarracudaDrive/
A really easy to use and cool WebDAV client is Total Commander: http://www.ghisler.com/
Fastmail rocks! The paid accounts offer a level of flexibility that is almost impossible to find anywhere else. Sure, the interface isn’t pretty but it is fast. If you want free, basic email then get Gmail. But if you want a real email solution without the privacy concerns and with the ability to synchronise with multiple computers and with phones/handheld then there is no better solution than fastmail.
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