I met a PI at my local coffee shop this morning. (I admit it took me a moment wracking my brains until I remembered Magnum PI – ah PI!!)

After overhearing a conversation he asked if I knew about computers – I said I did websites and online marketing. He looked crushed but we kept talking.

Anyway it turns out he had a problem taking stills from hidden camera video to incorporate into reports. It’s OK with the still camera but just not the video. My suggestion – my favorite tool snagit! After all he can watch and pause on screen, so he can take screen capture and being PC based snagit is the easiest tool I know to make that easy.

It got me thinking about the tools we use and how much we come to depend on them.

I wonder what your favorite tools are? Leave me a comment and let me know.

Some of my faves are
WordPress – can’t imagine building or maintaining a website in anything but wordpress these days.

Animoto – even just for the fun factor! So easy to take still and short video to make animated video to music (it was animoto that caught the PI’s ear)

Aweber – so simple to build a list, set up email marketing campaigns and broadcast messages.

Snagit! – although now I’ve moved to the darkside of the mac so don’t need it anymore.

There’s a whole host more but this time I thought I’d hand it over to you – tell me what your favorite tools are for anything computer related. What do you use that makes your life so much easier?