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An idea for a post I’ve stolen from Steve Rubel. No doubt his gadget bag will now have new toys since his post is dated March.

What do you use to help you work and blog? Or in my case, work, study and blog. What necessary tools do you use to get the job done?

I have a humble Dell Inspiron 5160 that I use for work, home and occasionally uni. It is pretty much turned on 15 hours a day, seven days a week and have quite a few external and network drives connected to it. Take a look below. No Dell Hell problems with it so far.

Connected to that I have a Voip Voice USB Skype phone with a London SkypeIn number. Skype hasn’t any numbers for my area as of yet, so I just tell people it’s for the London office. I usually have the SkypeIn number forwarded to my mobile.

I use a Planet 21 Smart and Versatile Deluxe Backpack to carry my lap top. In that I have an old (but still does the job) Pentax 330GS for taking occasional photos at work, a SafeCom wireless card for wi-fi at uni and an iPod Photo 20GB to listen to music and podcasts. I did try listening to audio books but don’t enjoy it as much as reading a real book.

My phone is a Windows Smartphone SPV c550. I use it to synch my Outlook contacts and calendar with my lap top, send and receive email using Gmail Lite when on the move, read my RSS feeds with FreeNews, chat occasionally on MSN Messenger Mobile, and take photos.

I’m planning on buying a 1GB storage card for it to listen to music and podcasts, which could possibly make my iPod unnecessary. Oh, and I use it to make calls too.

The main software I use is, WordPress for my blog platform, Firefox as my browser, FeedDemon synched with Newsgator for my RSS feeds, Gmail as my blog and personal email, Outlook using stephenNO@SPAMdavies.net to send out press releases etc, Word and Power Point for uni, and iTunes for music and podcasts.

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