Show Me Your Dock Series! Part 13
Niki Brown is a web and graphic designer based in Boston, MA. Niki works for a small design firm by day and by night is a freelance blogger and graphic designer. Niki runs her popular DesignOBlog and the brilliant Creattica Daily blog. She is well known for her love of Bananas and for her interesting Question of the Week series and super screencasts.
She is a super friendly member of our lovely web community and as such as i wanted to get the lowdown on the applications she relies upon as a designer and blogger.
The Intro…
I’ve been a Mac user since 2003. Before that I was a PC user. My first mac was a 17in powerbook G4 that I leased through my school’s graphic design program. Shortly after graduating my lappy bit the dust and I ended up getting a free 15in Macbook pro through apple care!!! I’m definitely an apple user for life now – although I recently purchased an Asus eeepc netbook.
The Dock…
- Timepost – Time tracking that posts to basecamp or other project management apps. Works pretty well!
- Transmit – Hands down best FTP App ever.
- iTunes – I could not live (or design/code/develop) without music.
- Adium & iChat – For when I feel chatty
I almost never use instant messenger anymore. - Times – A great little RSS app with a visual emphasis. I Don’t use this app very much, but its very pretty.
- TweetDeck – My favorite flavor of twitter app. I’ve used alot of different apps for twitter, but for me its Tweetdeck on my laptop and iphone.
- Woopra – I quite enjoy stalking visitors to The Design O’Blog and Woopra works quite well for live web analytics.
- MAMP – 6 months ago I didn’t know this app existed – and then someone shed light on the fact that I could develop wordpress and other CMS based sites LOCALLY! MAMP has definitely rocked my world.
- Screenflick – Screenflick is a great screen-casting app that I use to record my quick tips.
- VMwareFusion – Nessicary evil, all web designers have to check their sites in windoze at some point.
- Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver – The magic adobe apps that help me make pretty illustrations and websites.
- Espresso – Another code editor thats much lighter weight than Dreamweaver.
- Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Stainless – I’ve got a thing for browsers so I have more than a few. I have to make sure my sites look ok across the interwebs.
- Audioscrobbler – This app keeps track of the songs I listen to in itunes and sends to them to last.fm.
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A huge thanks to Niki for taking time out to take part in the Dock Series.
As usual if you would like to share your dock, just leave a comment with a brief description of your dock apps and a link to a screenshot of it. Or take to your blog and write up a description of your dock as several others have done.
Other Creatives in the Series:
- Part 1 – Grace Smith
- Part 2 – Khoi Vinh
- Part 3 – Matt Brett
- Part 4 – Veerle Pieters
- Part 5 – Tim Van Damme
- Part 6 – Ian Stewart
- Part 7 – John Boardley
- Part 8 – Adii Pienaar
- Part 9 – Ben Bleikamp
- Part 10 – David Airey
- Part 11 – Jonathan Snook
- Part 12 – Antonio Lupetti
With more amazing creatives lined up, make sure to check back every Tuesday for the latest Dock Series installment. If you would like to be featured please leave a comment below.
Related posts:
- Show Me Your Dock Series! Part 11
- Show Me Your Dock Series! Part 19
- Show Me Your Dock Series! Part 21
Grace Smith is owner of the small but perfectly formed web design studio Postscript5, in Northern Ireland. To keep up to date with the latest designalicious content, then please consider subscribing.
Ha that picture totally sums up my personality
Thanks for asking me to participate!!!!