ten billion butterfly sneezes

The new laptop, gypsy, is an absolute hoot to use. I took it for its initial road shakedown on the last Search for America Tour a month back. I also took the trusty Mac Powerbook, since I knew its capabilities and functionality. Hauling two laptops being a huge PITA and all, I resolved to condense the laptop cartage on future road trips to a single unit, and have been working to outfit gypsy to fit the bill.

So I needed some things that I’ve used on the Mac from the git-go:

• Web browser
• Mail client
• Feed reader
• Blog authoring client
• Wifi reliability

Some of these are obvious no-brainers, others had choices; here’s what I’m running now:

• Web browser - Firefox
• Mail client - Thunderbird (curently migrating from Evolution)¹
• Feed Reader - Sage extension for Firefox. Used at work; it rocks.
• Blog client - Performancing, now ScribeFire Firefox Extension.
• Wifi - Previously chronicled the success of the built in wifi, also have an old D-link USB wifi adapter that works.

In addition, I went with a Sprint wireless broadband adapter, which is cool enough to warrant its own post, and which will provide me blog fodder for my next blogging dry spell.
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