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A comment on Ask HN: Which paid apps and services do you use?.

Re:Ask HN: Which paid apps and services do you use? by adrianhoward on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @03:57AM (#7803403)
Work:

* Linode - for hosting

* Namecheap - for domains

* CrashPlan - for one layer of our backups (other layers are timemachine, dropbox, and disk imaging)

* Pinboard for links.

* Office 365 - because the £8 per month is worth it for dealing with the MS files that other people send us and expect edits on. No - OpenOffice isn't good enough at conversions.

* Google Docs - for shared editing

* Dropbox - for sharing files + another layer of backups

* ScreenHero - for screen sharing

* Slack - for chat

* Trello - for organising everything

* CloudApp - for random sharing of screenshots

* Buffer - for social account organisation (suboptimal - but best of the bunch that I've played with.)

* Until recently Adobe CS subscription, but our usage dropped so much we've swapped for Pixelmator & Sketch as an experiment...

* Sublime Text 2 - editing on desktop

* Editorial & Writeroom - writing on iPad & iPhone

* OmniGraffle - wireframing, but very rarely used now

* aText - text abbreviation expansion on OS X

* Carbon Copy Cloner - backups

* Air Display - so I can use the iPad as a second screen when I'm on the road

* AntiRSI - reminds me to take screen breaks

* Skype - conference calls

* Transmit - [S]FTP client

* TunnelBear - UK/US tunneling, useful when I'm not in UK for some foolish things

Play:

* Have a subscription to the excellent PseudoPod, EscapePod & PodCastle podcasts

* SMBC comic patreon subscription

* Whatever the amazon streaming video thing is called

* Amazon Prime

* Downcast - Podcasting app for iOS / OS X.

* Steam - games (barely use)

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Re:Ask HN: Which paid apps and services do you use? by alexgaribay on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @03:28PM (#7806328)
How well has Slack been for you as opposed to Hipchat or something similar?
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Re:Ask HN: Which paid apps and services do you use? by adrianhoward on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @04:27AM (#7808942)
Fine - but, to be honest, we've been mostly co-located since we switched a week or two back from Hipchat and haven't been using it much. UI is a chunk uglier than Hipchat, integrations with stuff we use seem fine, but we've not really been using it in anger yet.
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