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

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

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.