Your top 3 tools?

Posted by gunars
Mar 17, 2013 at 03:35 AM

Cassius wrote:
>... Later, I added a dumb terminal connected to
>a VAX computer and the statistical program SPSS. Finally, the PC
>arrived and as soon as GrandView became available, I used it for
>everything:

Small world - I used GrandView to help plan software development while working at SPSS at around the same time.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>An important consideration, it seems to me, with one of these
>subscription-based web apps is where are you if the company goes out of
>business…

An example is thinklinkr that quietly closed up shop. Fortunately, I didn’t have much irreplaceable info there. All of a sudden, I could no longer log in. A note from the owners said I could still get in via the mobile interface, although only in read-only mode. At least that was enough to retrieve my data by copy/paste.