Here are some tools that have improved my productivity. You may find them useful as well.
- OmniFocus for managing tasks
- iPhone, especially tethering my MacBook
- Google Reader & Twitter for keeping up-to-date on news & opinion
- MailChimp for e-mail marketing & communications
- Gmail with labels & filters
- Quicken 2005 for managing personal finances, especially in combination with online banking & downloading transactions
- Google Maps for directions, time to arrive when walking, finding businesses
- Google AdWords for advertising services and products
- Facebook for keeping in touch with friends & family
- AddressBookSync and AddressBookr to sync Facebook contacts with Apple's Address Book
- Google Contacts for keeping everything synchronized
- Picasa for organizing, editing and sharing photos
- Freshbooks for invoicing
- WordPress for blogging and for the framework for non-blog web sites.
- TextMate for coding
- Acrobat Professional for working with PDF
