My list is slightly different, as i am only listing digital products and not physical products like the iPhone.

• Echofon Pro (Twitter Updates On My iPod Touch)
• Tweetie For Mac
• iTunes
• Gmail
• Xmarks For Safari
• delicious
• TVCatchup
• Adium
• Garmin Connect
• Photoshop
• Coda
• Transmit
• Transmission

One thing i do miss though is a 3G mobile broadband internet connection using something like an iPhone.

When i first heard about the Novatel Mifi 2352, i knew straight away that this would solve this problem for me.

The Novatel Mifi 2352 allows you to have your very own mobile wifi hotpost. The Mifi 2352 contains your 3G sim card which allows you to connect to the internet and then at the same time, the Mifi 2352 gives off a Wifi signal which allows you to connect upto 5 devices on the go.

This is great for me, as i can now use my iPod Touch’s email capabilities anywhere or i can use my Macbook pro when i am away from home and i am in a place where where there is no Wifi hotspots. I am now my own Wifi hotspot, so i know i will never be without an Internet connection.

I know i’m not going to be a huge downloader on the go, so i chose to sign up with Orange’s £4.89* per month 3G Mobile Broadband package which gives you 512MB of data per month which will be fine for a bit of email checking, checking twitter and looking at football scores on the BBC website. If i find the 512MB amount of data isn’t enough, i can always upgrade to their 1GB package which is also very reasonable.

Of course though, you dont have to use Orange, you can use any network you like. I also tried a, Three, sim card that i had, and that worked no problem.

The mifi 2352 is a beautiful little device which you can see in the image below. It is very small and extremely light. You can just turn it on and put it in your pocket or bag and just forget about it.

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Overall i am extremely happy with this device. I did have a little trouble getting my Orange 3G sim to connect when i first used it, but after i updated the Mifi 2352′s firmware, i had no problems at all. I would highly recommend this little device, and i am very pleased i got it.

*This is a limited time offer.

Below you will see the software i use on both machines including the free software that comes built in with Mac OS X and also free downloads and paid applications.

• Firefox
• Mac Mail
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe Photoshop
• Coda
• Spotify
• Microsoft Word
• Tweetie
• Transmit
• Adium
• Parallels
• SlingPlayer
• iTunes
• Picasa
• VLC
• iShowU
• Yuuguu
• UnRarX

In January (2009) i had heard about “Jolicloud” on techcrunch.com. Jolicloud is a Linux based operating system aimed directly at Netbooks, and this really interested me. I didn’t want a machine that would run Photoshop or other high end software programs like that. All i wanted was a machine that allowed me to check emails, and access certain websites like twitter.com and so on.

So this week i purchased a Samsung NC10 Netbook with Built-In HSDPA from expansys.com. Expansys.com were great and delivered the Netbook the next day without any problems. I straight away got to work of removing Windows XP and installing Jolicloud.

The Samsung NC10 is a great little machine, and i would highly recommend it. Its extremely light and quiet and the battery life is amazing. I had it on for over 6 hours on one charge yesterday. I suppose the only let down, was Windows XP that came with it. It came pre-installed with all the usual crapware and free trials, but that was soon all gone once i started the Jolicloud installation.

The Jolicloud installation was extremely easy, and was all done in about 20 minutes. Once the installation was done, and i setup my Jolicloud account on the machine, i was then asked to setup my Wifi and 3G connections which were both easy to do. I have a “Pay As You Go” 3G sim card with “3 UK“, and this was plugged into the sim slot on the Samsung NC10 where the battery is located.

Jolicloud is still a “Pre Beta” piece of software which you can only download by invite only, but if you submit your email address on their website, you should get an invitation quite soon. The software might still be a pre-beta piece of software, but i really wouldn’t have guessed that. I haven’t come across any bugs yet, and the software has run amazingly well on my Samsung NC10.

Jolicloud has a sort of App Store built into the OS, where you can download free apps likes, OpenOffice, Boxee and Skype to name a few, but i did notice that Firefox hadn’t been updated to the latest version of 3.5.x yet and was still running version 3.0.x. I’m not sure if this is a linux problem, or it the Jolicloud developers have to create an optimized version of Firefox 3.5.x for Jolicloud, but its not a huge problem. Once you download any of the apps that you like, they are organised into different categories such as, “Internet”, “Office” and “Graphics”, but you can also mark the apps as your “Favourites”, so that they all appear on your “Favourites” page.

The only issue i have found with Jolicloud so far, is every time i start the Jolicloud OS, i get a message saying…………. The Application ‘NetworkManager Applet’(usr/bin/nm-applet) wants to access the default keyring, but it is locked. When i start any OS, i dont want any passwords to enter, i just want the desktop to appear and thats that.

Overall i have been extremely pleased with the Samsung NC10 and the Jolicloud OS, and it amazes me that this software isn’t even at the “Beta” stage yet, so i can only see goods things for the future of Jolicloud as my Netbook Operating System of Choice.

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For example…… I add a new RSS feed to “Mail” on my macbook pro, and straight away there are 5 unread RSS updates for that new feed. I dont read any of these new RSS updates. I then go onto my iMac and do the same, by adding the same RSS feed to “Mail”. Like when i added the feed on the macbook pro, there are 5 unread RSS updates for this new RSS feed. Now while still on the iMac, i read one of the RSS updates, so now there are only 4 remaining unread RSS updates. But if i now go back to the macbbok pro, and look at the RSS updates on “Mail”, it still shows 5 unread RSS updates, even though i have already read one of the RSS updates on the iMac. What i want, is for the RSS updates to sync between computers, so if i read a RSS update on one copy of “Mail” on one computer, then it will be marked as “Read” on all my other copies of “Mail” on my other computers.

This is when Google Reader could come into it and help. This is how i would love it to work. I add all my RSS subscriptions to Google Reader, but every time i add a new subscription, i am given a new unique RSS URL from within Google Reader which i can then add to “Mail” on my mac. So when i read the “RSS” updates on my mac “Mail”, the google reader server is told that i have read the RSS update on my computer, so the next time this google reader RSS URL is loaded on another copy of “Mail” on another computer, it is automatically marked as “Read”.

I have a feeling that this wont be entirely possible without Apple making some changes to “Mail” to allow this to work, but i would love to have some kind of “Imap Style RSS” which i can sync over multiple copies of “Mail” on my different macs.

I know there are stand-alone RSS readers out there which will sync my RSS updates between computers, but i only want to use “Mail” to read my RSS feeds, as i have a minimalist approach to using my computers, by that i mean, i’d prefer to use 1 piece of software that does 2 things instead of using 2 separate pieces of software. Thats just how i am.

Back then i still had a selection of software programs that i used on a daily basis, but 11 years on i use none of them now and haven’t done for years.

Below you will see 5 programs that i used on a daily basis, but now haven’t used at all for years.

1) ICQ

I used ICQ all the time from about the age of 14 for a couple of years. I didn’t use any other instant messenger software until i eventually moved over to MSN and Yahoo and more recently i now use Adium to connect to Yahoo on my Mac.

2) Winamp

I loved Winamp. Thanks to the software program listed below (number 3), i was able to listen to any song then a there instantly. I loved the different skins you could download for it, but once the iPod was born i moved over to iTunes and i never looked back.

3) Napster

Obviously i only ever used Napster for legal reasons…….Cough…. but all i can say is, when you are a kid and you have no money, napster really was your only option back then to get to listen to the kind of music you loved. 10 Years on, i can thankfully afford to spend £0.79 for a song on itunes and know i am not breaking the law, and also Napster the “Illegal Site” died in 2001.

4) Winzip

The entire time i had a Windows computer, i used Winzip. But when i switched over to the Mac World in 2006 i had no need for a third party compression utility like winzip.

5) Real Player

From day 1 of getting my first computer, Real Player was installed on my computer. It really was never one of my favorite pieces of software  and i probably only used it between 1998 and 2001, but since then i have never used it. I remember the bbc.co.uk website required real player to play video content on their site but thankfully that is all in the past. Now i use the VLC player on my mac which supports many different video formats although i simply cant remember the last time being on a website that offered video in the real player format.

I love the idea of a really small and light computer that you can carry around with you and for them not to cost that much. But the one thing that has really got me interested in Netbooks is the emergence of  the “Netbook Optimized Operating System”, and the one that has caught my eye is the Linux based, Jolicloud.

Jolicloud is still in the testing stages of development, but even at these early stages it just looks amazing. Its exactly what a Netbook operating system should be like.

I love the iPhone style “Apps” that jolicloud incorporates, and its layout and design is just amazing.

Netbooks are known for their low processing power and low amounts of Memory, so thats why its so important to have an operating system that utilizes the processor speeds and RAM available.

I dont actually have my first Netbook yet, but i do have my eye on the Samsung NC-10 or the Asus 1008HA and will be keeping an eye out for any other Netbooks that come onto the market before the official release of Jolicloud.

You could say i am a bit of a freak of Nature when it comes to the iPhone, and by that i mean i dont have one. In fact i dont have any kind of mobile phone, and thats probably why i am such a fan of the iPod Touch, as it has just about all the features of the iPhone, but just without the phone, and thats perfect for me.

So in my wishlist below, you may see things that the iPhone can do, but the iPod Touch can’t, and you might just say… “Buy an iPhone”, but thats just not an option for me. I really don’t miss having a mobile phone, and i hate being tied into contracts and i certainly don’t want to spend nearly £500 on a pay as you go iPhone when i know i really wouldn’t use the phone and SMS features that much at all.

1) Microphone

Having a built in microphone would be extremely helpful, not only to have the ability to make voice memos, but i would love to be able to use the “Shazam” app without having to plug in a 3rd party microphone.

2) Camera

It would be great if they built in a stills and video camera just like the new iPhone 3GS. The video editing software looks great aswell in the iPhone 3.0 OS.

3) 3G

I know this wont happen, but i would just love it if it did. When i’m away on holiday or away from home for a few days, i always take my Macbook Pro, and i also use a 3G USB dongle from three.co.uk – I only use it to be able to get access to my email on the go and it works great. I just want to have this ability on my iPod Touch when i’m not in a Wifi area, to be able to connect via 3G and read my emails on the go.

4) Improved Battery

I’m sure everyone would want this.

5) Scratch Proof Case

When you first pull that shiny new iPod Touch from its packaging, it looks amazing. You then put it in your pocket and pull it out, and its scratched. I don’t mean the screen, i’m talking about the shiny silver back. I’m no expert in product materials, but if they could somehow create a scratch proof case, so that it stays in the same condition as when its removed from its box then that would be nice aswell.

6) OLED Screen

Improved quality of the screen would be nice for when i watch my video podcasts and also OLED technology could help the devices battery life.

I’m going to list a number of those things below, and they are all things I had heard about and knew what they were and what they did, but I just never tried them out. Then once I did try them, I was like…. Wow, why didn’t I do this 5 years ago?

I now use all these things all the time, every single day.

1) Mac Computers and Mac OSX.

I got my first ever PC in 1995, and for 11 years I used Windows computers. This period is when I learned most about how computers worked, and probably is what helped me get to where I am today.

This period though, was also without doubt the most frustrating period of computer use in my life. Crashes, Virus Attacks, Constant need for third party firewall and virus software and so on.

I always saw Mac computers as being something that was out of my reach, mainly because I was just a kid and i could never afford one, and i also knew that my windows programs wouldn’t install onto a Mac. This is the PowerPc period, so there was no virtualization software like Parallels or WMware.

I always knew i wanted one though, but until i bit the bullet and bought one of the new Intel Macbook Pros in January 2006, i had never actually used one, or the Mac OS software.

I can safely say though, that purchase was probably one of my best ever, and i know i will never go back to a Windows computer.

2) Imap (Wikipedia Page)

Since i first got the internet at home in 1998 with Freeserve, i always used Pop3 for my email downloads, using software like Microsoft Outlook express and since 2006, Mac’s Mail software.

Rather stupdily, i had never really looked into Imap or knew much about it. But in early 2008 i bought an iMac, and also kept my Macbook Pro, so for the first time, i had 2 main machines that i used daily. This was when i found out what Imap was, and realised how great it was. I could download and read an email on my macbook pro and then delete the message, and then later when i was on the iMac, the message would be there sitting in the trash. All mail was automatically synced, and for years i had no idea Imap did this.

3) RSS (Wikipedia Page)

With the rise of Twitter, a lot of people say RSS is dead, but with the way i use it, i strongly disagree.

For many years i saw the little RSS icons on different websites, but i never used them. I would browse though website after website looking at different news stories or blogs and i would find that after a while, i’d lose track of which news stories and websites actually interested me. I wanted a better way of getting my news updates quicker and all in one place.

I use Mac Mail for my daily email needs, and one of the great features built into this software is the ability to add RSS feeds directly into Mail.

I like using the minimum amount of software programs to do what i need to do on my computer, so having a merged email and RSS reader was great.

One thing i would prefer though, is some sort of “Imap Style RSS” technology, where when i read one of my RSS articles on one of my machines, i want it so that when i go on my other machine, it is also marked as read, and all of this should be done within Mac Mail.

4) Twitter

This is another one of those things, where i had heard about it for a long time, but never actually used it.

Once i first tried it though, i was hooked. Being able to see what your favourite celebs were doing was enough for me. Thats what got me hooked.

After i registered though, all i did for a long time was just follow people and read their tweets, but over the last few weeks i’ve started posting, althought not very much, but that will increase in time. Follow Me Here.