Following Karl’s 2013 roundup I thought I’d have a go at my own. This look longer than I expected.

OS X Applications

The only new application here is Moom. I spend much of my time with a fair few windows open and Moon gives me an unobtrusive way to organise windows superquick. I would recommend it in a heartbeat.

I’ve been a user of the rest of the applications since their respective births and they do their jobs admirably.

• Chrome Canary – for development and surfing the information super highway
• iTunes – for listening to my music
• Moom – window manager
• Pixelmator – image editing
• Quicksilver – application launcher
• Terminal – where I spend most of my time
• Tweetbot – to share what I’m having for lunch
• VLC – to watch all the videos

Terminal Applications

I’m living in the terminal more than ever and have recently moved my instant messaging and email to the command line. I find it more efficient to jump between tmux windows and sessions than between different attention-grabbing applications. A side effect is that I’m using the mouse at lot less which is better for my wrists.

• Irssi – IRC client
• Glances – operating system monitoring tool
• MCabber – XMPP client
• Mutt – email client
• tmux – terminal multiplexer
• Vim – the text editor of truth

iOS Applications of note

Although I only have two pages of applications on my iPhone I didn’t feel the need to list them all. Here are a small(ish) selection of ones that I use regularly and don’t think I could do without.

• Alien Blue – reddit client
• Citymapper – it really is the ultimate transport app
• Foursquare – the city is my playground
• FuelBand – for the FuelBand
• IFTTT – I’m using the iOS Location Channel a fair bit
• Malt – beautiful MLKSHK client
• Prompt – SSH client from Panic
• Reeder – the best feedreader app by far.
• Simplenote – for all my notes. Sync works wonderfully
• Tumblr
• Tweetbot – still haven’t upgraded to Tweetbot 3
• Weather Line – pretty good weather app

Hardware

• Dell box – an ancient Dell box that runs Debian
• Filco Majestouch 2 – mechanical keyboard
• iPad mini
• iPhone 5
• Mac Mini – a media centre of sorts
• MacBook Pro (with Alkr cover) – my primary machine
• Raspberry Pi – I have two of these and love them for tinkering

Online services

I’m hoping 2014 will be the year I ditch third party email providers and move to a self-hosted deal. I’ve considered different ways to do this but none have struck me as particularly future-proof or time efficient.

• Dropbox – I only use this for IFTTT tasks
• Pinboard – for bookmarks
• Foursquare – for exploring the city
• GitHub – version control (and this blog!)
• Gmail – for email
• iCloud – for email, calendar and addressbook sync
• IFTTT – for gluing services together
• MLKSHK – how about some f_cking whimsy?
• SDF – public access UNIX
• Simplenote – syncs to clients on iPhone, iPad and Mac
• Twitter – photos of lunch and animals