Placeless Office tools

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Placeless Office tools

by Jason Clarke Nov 10th 2006

Gina over at Lifehacker has a wonderful Geek to Live post up today called Essential tools for the placeless office. I found the term "placeless office" to be interesting, and apparently Gina picked it up from our (Weblogs Inc's) very own Barb Dybwad. Basically, it's the virtual place that you work if you don't have a consistent office you go to every day, or maybe it's the virtual place you work when working on projects that are not part of your day job.

The post outlines the tools that the Lifehackers use to get their jobs done. And while at Download Squad we don't have an official list like this, if we were to make one I would venture to bet that it would look very similar. All of the tools mentioned in Gina's post are high-quality stuff, and my only real quibble is that the list is very Google-centric, although to be fair, I use all of the same Google services. So I guess I have no complaint. Check it out.

Tags: del.icio.us, delicious, Gmail, Google, Google Docs, GoogleDocs, Lifehacker, MediaWiki, placeless office, PlacelessOffice

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Prashanth said 10:35PM on 11-10-2006

"Placeless office"... I like the term.
Well about two years ago, when I started freelancing, I was pretty much "placeless". I was working on any machine I could find and all I needed was my usb drive.
I was developing project is PHP and MySQL and I had
HapEdit (free great PHP, ASP editor - no installation reqd)
Popcorn (a great exe for POP3 email - no installation reqd)
2xExplorer (a great exe for everything you ever wanted out of a file manager - no installation reqd)
Coffeecup FTP..
all free programs that gave me to freedom to work anywhere (public library, friend's laptop or the airport )
;)

janey said 2:28AM on 11-11-2006

I love the term "Placeless Office," great list! And now I simply must try out MediaWiki, I am yet do so.

fak3r said 12:08PM on 11-16-2006

When starting at a company as a contractor I always throw up a simple WIKI somewhere so I can document/share things without just sending it into the email ether. I can't stand ppl emailing word / excel docs that get out of date the second they send them. Also, if you're really strained, use a USB drive with those 'portable' apps so all of your work stays with you (and off the corp network). Easy to throw down a GTDWiki on it too. As for online, Gmail, Google Calendar, and ActiveCollab (the free/GPL version of Backpack that is easy to setup on your own server) rule the roost for me.

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