When I picked up my G5 desktop last May in one of Apple’s retail stores, the Genius Bar etched itself in my mind. What a great idea from technical support to training to just being open to conversation. Has anybody out their replicated this in K12 schools? I’d like to shatter the mold on “technical support” and “technology training” practices of the past.
What kind of things would you like to see, either as a “patron” or as the “bartender” of this concept?
She arrived today. This thing is awesome.
Woo hoo.
Browser: Firefox
Email Home: Gmail with Gmail Notifier
Email Work: Entourage (Still not comfortable with this.)
Text Editor: SubEthaEdit (Doubles as my GTD world right now as well.)
IM: Adium
Aggregator: NetNewsWire
Music, Podcast Catcher: iTunes
Office: Office 2004
Blogging: Ecto
Backup: ChronoSynch
Navigation: Quicksilver
Music: AudioScobbler
Utility: TextPander
Delicious: Contextual Plugin in Firefox + Cocoalicious
Audio: Audio Hijack Pro
Pictures: Flickr Uploader
Outliner: OmniOutliner Professional
VOIP: Skype
FTP: Cyberduck
What am I missing? Anybody have good suggestions of “must have” software?