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Open Thread: What's your killer app?
Merlin Mann | Aug 21 2006
The other day I was talking with someone about the novel and non-obvious ways that people use Excel in their work and home life. Gotta say, I've personally seen some pretty amazing stuff happen when people take a favorite app, get really good at it, then bend it to their will. (And Excel is perfect for this.) This tracks to Danny's Life Hack concept by which the alpha geeks were achieving lofty heights of productivity partly by mastering 1-3 "killer apps" -- then using them to solve most of their information and functional problems in fairly novel ways. So my question for you: What's your killer app? Is there one place where 80% or more of your activity takes place (by choice)? Vim? Excel? Perl? Firefox? Post-it Notes? What's yours and when did you realize you'd become a badass at using it? 106 Comments
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Firefox. But mostly just as...Submitted by Kevan (not verified) on August 21, 2006 - 6:03am.
Firefox. But mostly just as a conduit to: (reading the tabs across my browser right now) my personal wiki, Netvibes, Gmail (hosted), Google Calendar, meebo.com, and wherever I end up following something on those sites. Safari can work in a pinch if I am on a Mac w/o Firefox - but I need tabs. On a PC, I need Irfanview, SciTE, PuTTY, CoreFTP On a Mac, I need Quicksilver, TextMate, Cyberduck Think constellation of key utilities and web tools, not Killer App. » POSTED IN:
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