The Tools I Use to Run Starship Design, a look at Software and Services for a Solo Design Practice

The Busy Creator Podcast with Prescott Perez-Fox

Show Notes & Links

• Prepare to Share
• Places to Learn Business Skills Online
• The Previous Episode with Sally Hogshead
• The full catalogue of The Busy Creator Podcast episodes
• The Busy Creator Podcast 80 — The April Fool's Episode
• Starship Design, Prescott's design business
• Dual monitors
• Apple Cinema Display and old Dell monitor
• 4:3 ratio vs. 16:9 ratio displays (Macs use 16:10, actually)
• Hi-dpi screens
• Wacom Intuos 3 wide format tablet
• Logitech K750 Wireless USB Keyboard
• The Busy Creator Podcast 6 w/Bill Wadman
• Hackintosh
• Prescott prefers Safari, also runs Chrome
• "The Chrome"
• Safari extensions (Ad-block, Pinterest, etc.)
• Prescott [still] uses an iPod Classic
• Prescott doesn't use ?Music
• RIP CastRoller
• ChimpFeedr, from MailChimp
• Twitter for Mac
• Alfred tweets from the system
• Mac OS X built-in social sharing
• Faffing, a definition
• Slack (both for work and for personal)
• Email is very personal
• Prescott uses Postbox (but still doesn't like the interface of v4)
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• Nylas N1
• Airmail (too smart for Prescott)
• Prescott doesn't use Apple Mail
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• Prescott uses Adobe Bridge, not mini-Bridge (which is now discontinued)
• Adobe TypeKit
• Extensis Suitcase Fusion
• CS3 "still works"
• Adobe XD, up and coming
• Sketch
• Adobe Audition
• Adobe Lightroom
• Prescott doesn't use Apple Photos, and before that, iPhoto
• Coda
• Transmit, also from Panic Software
• SourceTree, from Atlassian
• BitBucket
• GitHub
• Byword
• RIP Bean
• Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel)
• Apple iWork (Pages, Keynote, Numbers)
• InDesign
• Harvest
• WaveApps
• Chase Amazon Visa card
• Cushion
• Expensify
• Quickbooks
• Prescott has also used Billings, Freshbooks, FreeAgent, Harpoon
• The Busy Creator Podcast 31 w/Bryan Orr, Project Management & Collaboration Tools
• Freedcamp
• The Busy Creator Podcast 63 w/Angel Grablev, CEO of Freedcamp
• Asana
• Basecamp
• Trello
• Kanban board (swim lanes, phases)Phases/swim lanes in Freedcamp's Kanban view[/caption]
• Freedcamp iOS app
• Teamwork.com (Projects)
• 17Hats
• Workamajig
• VLC
• MPlayerX
• RIP Movist 0.6.8
• QuickTime Player 7 Pro
• TinkerTool
• Onyx
• Yosemite Disk Utility
• ClipMenu
• Dropmark & Cloud.app
• Blog Post about Quick-Sharing and Quick-Saving
• 1Password
• Quitter
• PushBullet
• The Busy Creator Podcast 39 w/Steve Dotto
• Steve Dotto reviews PushBullet
• RescueTime
• Reddit.com
• Default Folder X
• XtraFinder
• TextExpander
• Article on using TextExpander with Markdown
• Growl
• Carbonite
• Amazon Cloud Storage
• Alfred
• LittleSnitch

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