2 pairs of rayban titanium glasses with anti-reflective coating for computer screens (or that's what they told me). worth the investment. i can't wear contacts for more than a few hours without pissing off my eyes. curious about trying "gunnar" glasses though. anyone have them?
year old 17-inch MacBook Pro matte 2.8GHz C2D with 8GB DDR3 and RAID 0 X25-M SSDs http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-apple-macbook-pro-raid-0-arr...
timbuk2 commute 2.0 (tsa approved) messenger bag but I find it too wide with my big 17" and I often bump into things/people so I just ordered an incase backpack
trash can and boxes for converting into standing desk mode http://picplz.com/user/stammy/pic/gntn/
large whiteyboard for calculating runway and scribbling ideas. http://blog.notifo.com/notifo-installs-their-whiteyboard after having it a few months, it is hard to clean/erase.
Chrome is default but I have 3 versions of Firefox (4 beta, 3.6 stable, 3.0 stable) each with their own profiles so I can run them simultaneously if I need to catch some stupid bug
NotifoGrowl for desktop notifo needs http://notifo.com/desktop and Chrome to Notifo extension https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/lgffhepmapgeepjn... (disclosure: i made the latter and my cofounder made the former)
Panic Transmit for sftp needs, but mainly for S3 stuff.
Panic Unison for usenet needs http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-download-with-newsgroups (disclosure: post has aff links)
1Password
Little Snapper for taking full-page screenshots for design inspiration
I use OS X Spaces a TON. Three spaces: chrome + textmate, ical + campfire + terminal + itunes, tweetdeck
Vmware with Ubuntu 10.10, Windows 7 Ultimate N, XP SP3
1TB Time Capsule for time machine, attached to 2TB WD disk for laptop image backups via super duper or CCC
magic mouse + apple charger (but i like using lithium batteries more.. much, much lighter) + Magic Prefs
MainMenu.app for basic system maintanence
delibar.app for managing delicious and pinboard accounts http://www.delibarapp.com/
brew! https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
Charles.app for misc HTTP lurking and easily repeating HTTP posts (naughty confession: used it to opt-out of AmEx publishing's online form 3,000 times. they had been filling my physical mailbox with sweepstakes offers several times per week. needless to say, got a personal reply by a higher-up saying they would make sure my address was correctly opt-ed out as my previous 2 opt-outs did nothing)
Lightroom + Aperture. Lightroom replaced Aperture for me (seems faster)
mid-range sony earbuds when on the go
Dre Beats circumaurals when at home http://paulstamatiou.com/review-beats-studio-by-dr-dre-and-m...
dropbox with grabbox for sharing screenshots easily
Propane.app for Notifo company campfire
TextExpander -- MUST HAVE
TextMate with Ack in Project, PeepOpen
iWork (keynote!)
iStat Menus for looking at how much ram redis is eating and how much CPU chrome is using
Samsung wireless B&W laser printer for printing out convertible notes (was $149 at officemax)
Mint.com for reminding myself how I still owe 6 figures for out-of-state georgia tech tuition loans
a custom apple script (saved as a .app by automator) that runs at boot to launch 4 terminal tabs with things like compass for sass, redis-server, redis-cli, git status and the like https://gist.github.com/627190 then I discovered some other github project that did pretty much this but much better. forgot the name of it
gitx for easily looking at diffs (also use mdr for that http://readablediff.com/)
f.lux app http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/
taskpaper app for simple todos but i write most things with pen and paper
breville tea maker. kevin rose approved. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoZeeogblr0
Sony NEX-5 pseudo-DSLR "EVIL/SLD" (sold my big Nikon D90 SLR and canon P&S, & kodak Zi8) this can do all and is much smaller. used it to record this notifo app tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW5hp3aoF9M
Adobe CS5 Suite + Fontcase for managing lots of fonts (but recently it keeps crashing on me.. any ideas? I have ~1500 fonts loaded in it)
xScope - VITAL for anyone that pushes pixels http://iconfactory.com/software/xscope
Skype phone number tied to Google Voice. Handy for taking business calls on my laptop next to my cofounder so we don't have to take turns yelling into iPhone 4 speakerphone
Spotify for listening to music my friends favorite because I hate searching for music
Hype Machine in Fluid.app
smcFanControl for cooling down/manually adjusting fan speed when necessary
TunnelBlick for VyprVPN when at coffee shops (#firesheep) http://paulstamatiou.com/how-toreview-surf-securely-with-vyp... (outdated review, theyve since added geek-approved openvpn and 256-bit L2TP/IPsec IIRC)
and last but not least, my trusty kindle http://paulstamatiou.com/review-amazon-kindle-3-wi-fi-readin...
also:
parse_git_branch() {
git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'
}
PS1="\w\$(parse_git_branch) $ "
diffy () {
for file in $*; do
git diff $file | mate
done
}
oh and a secret stash of chocolate-covered espresso beans in my desk drawer..