The Busy Creator Podcast with Prescott Perez-Fox

The Tools I Use to Run Starship Design, a look at Software and Services for a Solo Design Practice


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Show Notes & Links
  • Prepare to Share
  • Places to Learn Business Skills Online
  • The Previous Episode with Sally Hogshead
  • The full catalogue of The Busy Creator Podcast episodes
  • The Busy Creator Podcast 80 — The April Fool's Episode
  • Starship Design, Prescott's design business
  • Dual monitors
  • Apple Cinema Display and old Dell monitor
  • 4:3 ratio vs. 16:9 ratio displays (Macs use 16:10, actually)
  • Hi-dpi screens
  • Wacom Intuos 3 wide format tablet 
  • Logitech K750 Wireless USB Keyboard 
  • The Busy Creator Podcast 6 w/Bill Wadman
  • Hackintosh
  • Prescott prefers Safari, also runs Chrome
  • "The Chrome"
  • Safari extensions (Ad-block, Pinterest, etc.)
  • Prescott [still] uses an iPod Classic
  • Prescott doesn't use Music
  • RIP CastRoller
  • ChimpFeedr, from MailChimp
  • Twitter for Mac
  • Alfred tweets from the system
  • Mac OS X built-in social sharing
  • Faffing, a definition
  • Slack (both for work and for personal)
  • Email is very personal
  • Prescott uses Postbox (but still doesn't like the interface of v4)
  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Nylas N1
  • Airmail (too smart for Prescott)
  • Prescott doesn't use Apple Mail
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Prescott uses Adobe Bridge, not mini-Bridge (which is now discontinued)
  • Adobe TypeKit
  • Extensis Suitcase Fusion
  • CS3 "still works"
  • Adobe XD, up and coming
  • Sketch
  • Adobe Audition
  • Adobe Lightroom
  • Prescott doesn't use Apple Photos, and before that, iPhoto
  • Coda
  • Transmit, also from Panic Software
  • SourceTree, from Atlassian
  • BitBucket
  • GitHub
  • Byword
  • RIP Bean
  • Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel)
  • Apple iWork (Pages, Keynote, Numbers)
  • InDesign
  • Harvest
  • WaveApps
  • Chase Amazon Visa card
  • Cushion
  • Expensify
  • Quickbooks
  • Prescott has also used BillingsFreshbooksFreeAgentHarpoon
  • The Busy Creator Podcast 31 w/Bryan Orr, Project Management & Collaboration Tools
  • Freedcamp
  • The Busy Creator Podcast 63 w/Angel Grablev, CEO of Freedcamp
  • Asana
  • Basecamp
  • Trello
  • Kanban board (swim lanes, phases)Phases/swim lanes in Freedcamp's Kanban view[/caption]
  • Freedcamp iOS app
  • Teamwork.com (Projects)
  • 17Hats
  • Workamajig
  • VLC
  • MPlayerX
  • RIP Movist 0.6.8
  • QuickTime Player 7 Pro
  • TinkerTool
  • Onyx
  • Yosemite Disk Utility
  • ClipMenu
  • Dropmark & Cloud.app
  • Blog Post about Quick-Sharing and Quick-Saving
  • 1Password
  • Quitter
  • PushBullet
  • The Busy Creator Podcast 39 w/Steve Dotto
  • Steve Dotto reviews PushBullet
  • RescueTime
  • Reddit.com
  • Default Folder X
  • XtraFinder
  • TextExpander
  • Article on using TextExpander with Markdown
  • Growl
  • Carbonite
  • Amazon Cloud Storage
  • Alfred
  • LittleSnitch

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