These are some of the great apps that have “changed my life”, hope you find it useful. Apologize to PC users, you should perhaps consider getting a mac to make your life easier.

Evernote

I use Evernote mainly for Blogging, collecting ideas, and work connections.

Blogger: Since my work is very relevant to my passion, it often gives me ideas on what I should write on this blog. With Evernote, I can quickly use my iPhone to save all the key points under my “Blogging” notebook while I’m in a meeting or trying to meet a deadline. Then I can go through them when I blog.

Collecting ideas: Ideas come at me all the time, I mean from business ideas to a drunk prank ideas, I save them all in the “Idea” notebook. I use Notes (on iPhone) and TextEdit (on Mac) before, but Evernote helps me organize them.

Work connections: This is a very important one. I get business cards all the time, I use Evernote to take picture of each one I receive, and place them in “People” folder. Evernote can recognize text on an image file, so I can just search for a contact easily.

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Cooliris

For people who work on presentations, using Cooliris Firefox plugin is the most effective way to look for images for your slides. Instead of going page by page on Google and Flickr, type the keyword in Cooliris and just drag it until you see image that fits you.

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Yousendit

There’s always a file size limit in email, gmail is 10mb, work mail is even worse. All I have to do is to drag this large sized file to the Yousendit icon on my dock. Yousendit keeps the file in their server, then provide you a link which allows recipients to download it in 7 days.

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Scribefire

This is probably @thomascrampton‘s favourite. It is a Firefox plug-in that allows you to blog within the browser without having to login to your blogging dashboard. It’s a great time-saver for bloggers.

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Apple Preview

I know it is not even an “app”, but some people might not know how powerful Apple Preview is. I use it to resize my images for my blog posts, adjusting colours quickly and rotate images, also a very light weight PDF reader.

Handbrake

It is a free app that convert almost any windows format videos into .mov, mp4, and other useful online video formats. Very straight forward, easy-to-use.

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Google Offline Mail

If you are a gmail, google app user, this App downloads all your emails and attachments to your computer and make them available for you when you’re not connected to the Internet. Best for frequent travellers, they can spend the whole way replying to all unread emails.

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Currency Converter Widget

I don’t know why so many people use the XE online currency converter, it’s a good online tool, the Currency Convertor Widget is so much easier. I just need to type in the amount of the currency, and it converts them into all currencies in no time.

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Merlin

It is a project management software, very easy to use and it creates timelines with great graphics.

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Coda

I’m not a scripter or anything close to it, but Coda is a very light-weight coding software. Worth giving it a try if you haven’t yet.

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We discussed about the importance of Twitter Avatars on here. So, I decided to put togther a list of remarkable avatars from my “Following” list. These avatars are the ones that attract my attention right away, the real “Twitter Eye Magnets”. But of course, content of their tweets are part of what made their avatars good.

Tell me what you think about them, and follow them if you haven’t yet!

The list below is in random order.

	@Tortue Current colleague from 360 Digital Influence Ogilvy. He tweets mainly about social media, tech, and news. Unfortunately he changed his avatar.
	@nictinworth Followed him because of his passion on data visualization and graphic design. Digital Director for Fluid Hong Kong who interacts a lot on Twitter.
	@dda French living in Hong Kong and China who doesn’t think he’s a French. Like his avatar because it actually looks exactly like him.
	@jmis I assume this is a picture of herself, the colour attracts so much attention. I like her twitpics on food and things she sees in Hong Kong.
	@myshiren My sister who likes to RT my tweets, that’s basically what she does on Twitter.
	@richiereverley Haven’t really had a chance to start a conversation with him, but his avatar is very interesting.
	@fionawong0501 Great avatar. I like her twitpics about food in Hong Kong and the restaurants and bars she goes to.
	@adalinelau Not a fan of avatars that don’t users’ faces, but after meeting Adaline, she actually looks like the avatar, so it’s all good. She likes to @ reply to people.
	@admance He shares great advertising pieces, also a clear, and happy avatar.
	@Donnette Tweets about mostly news, this black and white avatar, plus her simple Twitter handle always grab my attention.
	@teedubya Creative and remarkable avatar. Tweets about social media.
	@gabyu French Designer based out of Shanghai. His avatar is very effective in telling audience where he is. (Chinese words: Finally back to Shang Hai!)
	@christinelu Lovely avatar, founder of the china business network, always engage and tweets about live events.
	@nikipaniki Digital person for Consumer Marketing practice in Ogilvy Singapore. Cute avatar, easy to remember, and she often interacts with her followers.
	@raiha Her avatar is very easy to remember. She tweets about social media and share news about her Tweetups.
	@christianfea Friendly avatar. He tweets about Twitter, and other social media channels for business.
	@angelaleowgray Cute avatar. I enjoy seeing her twitpics of Hong Kong, and food. Also she is very good at taking pictures of strangers on the street.
	@jansen Again, I’m not a big fan for avatar that hides users’ face, but jansen’s avatar is absolutely remarkable. Also, he’s probably the biggest tech blogger in Hong kong.
	@thomascrampton Don’t think I need further description on Tom. His avatar very well representing himself, and definitely shouldn’t change it because I wouldn’t see his tweets if he did.
	@shamir Based in Paris, Sr Product Manager of Flickr, and his avatar clearly shows it.

Now tell me about my avatar, should I change mine?