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Technology Review - 2017

12/30/2017

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Looking back at the year, I was thinking what software and hardware have I been the most happy with.  

Hardware:
  • Apple MacBook Pro 13" (2009 and 2010) - I have two of these devices. One for personal use and one for business. They are seriously great laptops.
  • Asus Transformer Mini T102HA - this is a 10.1" tablet with an attachable keyboard and stylus. I had wanted a device that I could a) read PDFs papers with and underline text; and b) write notes. I also didn't want to pay $1200 for something like a Microsoft Surface or an Apple iPad Pro. Instead I purchased this device for $299 and was surprised that it also ran Windows 10. I loaded Synthesis (www.synthesis.info) onto the device and was really surprised it had the power to run it.  
  • Nvidia Cool Master 590 case (home -built computer) - Still an awesome case. 
  • Raspberry Pi Model 3 B - powerful enough to run a NAS (www.openmediavault.org).
  • Seiki 4K 39" monitor (SE39UY04) - great large monitor for development and display.

Software:
  • VirtualBox - My default virtualization software (I also have VMWare and Parallels)
  • Skype - Its surprising how often I use Skype and how well it works.  
  • Balsamiq Mockup 3 (www.balsamiq.com) - A very good application for mocking up GUIs.
  • NotePad++ (www.notepad-plus-plus.org) - An excellent text editor.  
  • Synthesis (www.synthesis.info) - Even though I co-developed the software, I use it alot for academic literature searches.
  • Open Media Vault (www.openmediavault.org) - Network Attached Storage software. 
  • Etcher (www.etcher.io) - software to write ISO files.
  • PDF XChange Viewer  (https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer)

Development Software:
  • IntelliJ (www.jetbrains.com/idea/) - Java IDE
  • WebStorm (www.jetbrains.com/webstorm) - HTML/JavaScript IDE
  • RStudio (www.rstudio.com) - R IDE
  • OxygenXML (www.oxygenxml.com) - XML Editor (with great support for DITA)

Software that I would have liked to have tried:
  • InfoGraphics (http://www.jumsoft.com/toolbox-for-ms-office/) - Interesting Templates. (Pictogram/Pictograph)
  • Timeline 3D (https://www.beedocs.com/timeline3D/mac/) 
  • Office Timeline (www.officetimeline.com)
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