So, my question for today is: What applications do you keep on your dock/sidebar? Which essential applications do you use daily?

The following is part of my dock:

• Finder
• Mail (although I still prefer the Google Mail look and feel)
• DashBoard
• Firefox (has all my essential development plugins)
• Safari (faster browsing)
• iTunes
• MAMP (very easy and painless php+mysql+apache on a Mac)
• Textmate (my favourite editor)
• Pixelmator (I learned to forget about Photoshop because I only use 10% of it)
• GoPlan (using Fluid)
• Transmit (ftp made easy)
• Stickies (lot’s of them)
• Calendar
• Terminal (never knew I would say this but I can’t live without it now)
• Control Panel
• and the usual folders and trash bin.

It’s kind of hard to descrive MoodStream from GettyImages but you can think of it as a sort of interactive inspirational browser tool based on your mood and state of mind.

You can choose several presets or make your own selection before being bombarded by a stream of images, music and video straight from Getty’s archives. And of course you can find out more about what you’re hearing or seeing. Very worth watching and experiencing.

Oh and btw, this was my last work day at my current company, which means I’ll have a few surprises in the coming times.

It was a hard choice and a risk which I hope will pay out in the future. More info soon. :)

Opera published the Web Standards Curriculum, a series of articles which were released in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network, the goal is to:

teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics. 

I find the initiative very positive, there’s already 23 articles and 30 more are coming until the end of the year. Very nice!

Another worthwhile campaign is “Save the Developers” which focuses on assisting and encouraging users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web browser. On the long run it will also help developers who have to spend time making hacks and tweaks for designs to work properly in IE 6 (damn you!).

So upgrade now to a decent browser and help us save the developers. :)