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Today I’ll go over the hell I put my little work laptop through on a day-to-day basis. Bare in mind I’m using a Lenovo Z61t.  Oh well, at least they gave me 2gigs of RAM right?

Here’s what’s on my taskbar today:

Internet Explorer – don’t knock it, its company standard.  At least I got on the ie7 pilot group.

• Google Account – a guy’s got to keep up with his infrastructure right?  Keeping this window open saves time and the effort of constantly typing the same URL’s
• Google Analytics – I know, I know… AdWords does that too but when you’re monitoring multiple accounts, it’s nice to have them on different tabs.
• Google Adwords – even though I don’t have too, I babysit this one quite a bit.  I’m working currently to increase CTR so it’s good to know what keywords are performing before they start to sour. 
•  iGoogle – my lifeline to the world.  Detailing this page has its own post coming.
• splitweet.com – this is one of the better sites I’ve found for monitoring multiple twitter accounts from a browser.  If you have anything better, please share.
• dreamstime.com – ah, stock images… the life-blood of a creative.  I have accounts and credits with several royalty free sites but this is my go-to.  Honorable mentions go to 123rf.com and fotolia.com

Lotus Notes – work email.  It’s not Outlook but it will do.  Again, corporate standard…

FireFox – a far better browser and used for quality control.  Unfortunately company standards do not allow for clear outside usage but I’ve got it to make sure the changes I implement to our site will translate well to the fairer browsers.  Here’s what’s on it. 

•  jbhunt.com – company website – up today for some changes that went into affect today.
• hulu – something to listen to while I’m working.

Photoshop – always open, CS3 version.  I’ve currently got five windows open with bits and pieces of 3 different projects.

Illustrator – again, always open – CS3 version.  I’ve currently got 2 windows open, bouncing ad design ideas for a magazine cover.

Explorer – who has time to go through your recent documents?  Keep explorer open and you can bounce from drive to drive like an Olympic gymnast.

Notepad – I’ve got a green cube… no unnecessary paper on this desk.  This is my note-taking medium as well as a handy way to cut out all that word formatting when copy/pasting into other programs.

Word – primarily a spell-checker, I’ve typically got this one open as a scratch pad as well.  Side note, I tend to write better on Word.  Odd…

ActiveSync – keeps my phone charged and in communication with the little Lenovo.

So, that’s all I’ve got eating up my processing power for now. It’s really fun when I add Flash to the mix.  About that time everything starts running amok.