Software I use: Productivity

There comes a time in one's life when one wants to do the same amount of work in less time. These are the tools I use to reduce the work I have to do in keeping my life going.

Productivity tools:

• Office applications: Microsoft Office (http://office.microsoft.com/). Really, at the moment there's no true replacement, and that's for a lot of reasons. The main issue, of course, is market dominance. If I want to change to my preferred suite (eg. StarOffice - based on OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org)), then I need to convince everyone who uses my machine to swap as well. After all, I'm not going to pay for a licence I'm not going to use, now am I?
• Calendar: Google Calendar (http://calendar.google.com) Google calendars are the only calendars that I need. Accessible from anywhere, easy to use - I've never seen a better design for quick and easy data entry, and there are plugins for pretty much every web-based tech you can find. I use Joomla! (http://www.joomla.org) and there are so many plugins for Google Calendar - it's crazy! My church website (http://www.christlife.org.au) uses Google Maps... the only problem is that I haven't told anyone yet, so it's a bit out of date.
• Syncronisation: SyncBack SE (http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html) has to be one of the easiest I've used - and efficient. Check it out.

I think that's about it... If you've got a suggestion for another type of productivity app (an area I haven't talked about) then comment it here. If you think you've got a better piece of software, let me know too!