Posts made in May, 2011

What Technology Do You Use to Work from Home?

Posted by yourtechguy on May 2, 2011 in Articles | 0 comments

With so many peo­ple work­ing from home nowa­days, run­ning their own busi­ness or just telecom­mut­ing, I thought it would be inter­est­ing to see what types of tech­nol­ogy other peo­ple are using in their home offices.

Recently I had a chance to ask Lynn Terry of ClickNewz.com, about the tech­nol­ogy
she uses to help her run her suc­cess­ful affil­i­ate and inter­net mar­ket­ing busi­ness from home.

What tech­nol­ogy do you use to work from home?

I started out with noth­ing but a basic PC com­puter. My busi­ness has grown
dra­mat­i­cally over the last 14+ years of course, and these days my home
office is the largest room in my house. I cur­rently have two desks — one for
writ­ing & basic work, and a “media desk” where I do my mul­ti­me­dia work.

The tech­nol­ogy in my home office cur­rently includes:

• Dell PC com­puter with dual monitors
• Mac­book Pro lap­top with exter­nal monitor
• Apple iPad
• Motorola Droid X (smart phone)
• Plantron­ics Wire­less USB Headset
• Blue Yeti Micro­phone (for podcasting)
• Wire­less HP all-in-one Scanner/Copier/Printer
• Canon Vixia HD Video Cam­era with Tripod

Some of my favorite apps and soft­ware pro­grams include:

• iMovie for video edit­ing on the Mac­book Pro
• iThought­sHD app for mindmap­ping on the iPad
• Things for Mac, for tasks & scheduling
• Cam­ta­sia for PC, Screen­flow for Mac (for screencasting)
• Adobe Pho­to­shop for graph­ics & image editing
• Dreamweaver for basic web design
• Word­Press for the major­ity of my site/blog creation
• Dragon Dic­ta­tion
• Skype
• Ever­note — which works across ALL my devices

What would be the most impor­tant thing you use?

Believe it or not, with all that run­ning in my office, I’m usu­ally on my
Droid X. I can prac­ti­cally man­age my entire busi­ness from my smart phone no
mat­ter where I am.

Sur­pris­ingly, my iPad is prob­a­bly my least used gad­get — though I do love
it.

More often than not, I’m work­ing from my Mac­book Pro whether I’m on the back
deck or trav­el­ing the world. But if I can do it from my Droid, I don’t even
bother pulling out the laptop.

What kind of mobile tech do you use?

As I men­tioned, I have the Motorola Droid X. I had the orig­i­nal Droid and
upgraded last year for the larger touch screen, and the abil­ity to use it as
a wire­less hotspot. The X will run up to 5 other devices with 3G ser­vice,
which puts me online prac­ti­cally anywhere.

The apps I use most include: Word­Press, News­Rob (feed reader), Twit­ter,
Face­book, Pay­Pal, Gmail, Ever­note, Google Cal­en­dar, Skype Mobile, and the
Kin­dle app.

That com­bi­na­tion of apps allows me to do just about any­thing you could think
of for my online busi­ness. I’ve been known to blog from my Droid while
wait­ing to board a plane, at the doc­tors office, while sit­ting in a
con­fer­ence, etc. I absolutely love the free­dom and flex­i­bil­ity of being
mobile!

Lynn Terry is the author of ClickNewz.com where she shares her 14+ years expe­ri­ence in online busi­ness and inter­net mar­ket­ing. She cov­ers a vari­ety of top­ics from start­ing your online busi­ness, online jobs, work from home options, affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing tips, and cre­ative online mar­ket­ing strategies.