Looking back on my article on 5 Tools I’d Struggle Without, whilst I was planning it I struggled to find 5 things to write about. Yet almost as soon as I’d committed it for posting, I came up with another 5 products I use all the time as part of my daily routine. So, focussing on how I work, I tried to list all the little tools I’d acquired over the years and write about those that I continue to use on a frequent basis. I think that most of these bits of software have come from personal recommendations from friends, colleagues (past and present), different podcasts I listen to and articles that I’ve read on a multitude of sources across the web. Of course, there are many many more that have been tried and subsequently forgotten, removed or replaced by something better. That’s why this second batch are possibly better, because they didn’t stand out as tools any more, because, at least in my eyes, they’ve become almost a ubiquitous part of the Mac or iOS experience.
1Password (Mac & iOS, various prices)

We all hate having to remember passwords right? Historically we’ve tended to use the same one or two passwords across all our online accounts (often the same word with an ever-increasing number at the end when we’re forced to change it). But with frequent news reports of Web sites being hacked it’s become more obvious to most people that we shouldn’t use the same password for all our different accounts, especially those that are linked in some way to our financial information. But now that virtually all of us are doing 50% or more of our shopping online, from a huge number of different Web […]