New websites and new applications come up everyday. I’d say in a given day I evaluate close to 20 new software programs/websites. Through all of this evaluation there have been some staple programs/sites that I use on a daily basis. Here they are:

• iGoogle – It is a great starting page for aggregating email, scores, and other info, plus I heard it has a decent search engine for the web
• Blogger – You wouldn’t be able to live vicariously through me without it
• Skype – In my opinion, one of the better chat software out there…I just wish they could make a web based version of it
• Thunderbird – Open Source email client…a lot better than Outlook
• FireFox – Beta and stable…that’s right…I’m rocking them both
• Vmware – Enables virtualization of operating environments on your desktop…really cool
• Putty – easy to use SSH client
• Clipboard Fusion – An awesome clipboard scrubber to get rid of the html formatting…helps when moving data between applications
• Texter - Awesome autofill utility that uses keywords and keys to fill content on the page…I use this about 100 times a day…saves a lot of repetitive typing.

I hope some of these apps will help you with your daily work…they definitely help me.