What's in your toolbox?

I was wondering the other day about what and how other people were using their desktop/web productivity and administration tools. Then this morning Michael Gilbert had a great post about how he and his staff use different tools to publish Nonprofit Online News. His workflow diagrams are great; giving me some impetus to map out my own workflow process and the tools I use.  For now here's a list of what's in my toolbox...I love to know what other people are using:

Database: Salesforce.com

Browser: Firefox

Email: Gmail

Calendar: Mozilla Calendar

Project: Basecamp

GTD: Backback

Weblog: Typepad

Weblog editor: ecto

News Reader: Newsgator

Bookmarks: Del.cio.us (use Firefox plugin)

Word Processing: MS Word

Spreadsheets: MS Excel

Virus Protection: Norton’s AV

Hard Drive Upkeep: CCleaner

Backup: Data Deposit Box

Preferred Search: Yahoo! Search

Other primary searches: Google, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com

PDF Converter: Primo PDF

Desktop Search: Copernic

Compression App: 7-zip

Website Content Management System (CMS): Drupal

FTP Client: FileZilla

Media Player: WinAmp

Instant Messaging Client: Trillian

Anti-Spyware: Spybot and Ad Aware

Comments

[Beth]

Thanks for posting this list of tools! I've been trying to extract myself from Outlook, but stay chained because of the calendar and tasks. So, I'd be very curious to read your workflow related to Mozilla Calendar, Backpack, and gmail.

[Alex]

Great and useful posting. As you have mentioned often, the convergence between open source and professional proprietary software is the only way that nonprofits should go. It's about pragmatism, efficiency and impact rather than dogma!

Please consider posting Skype (www.skype.com) as a tool in your toolbox. Incredibly worthy especially for global NGOs like ours...

[suzannah]

database: Salesforce; though I can't shake access because i get monthly updates from my national entity (we are a state entity)

browser: firefox.

backup: Right back up by systweak (makers of cnets 5 star advanced system optimizer::and it's free!)

content manager: Democracy in action - amazing amount of resources, the cost is so tiny i dont know why anyone uses getactive anymore.

pdf converter: DeskPDF - you can pay as little as 19.99 for one license. and the files are a fraction of the size of acrobat-created files.

webblog editor: I am a huge fan of preformancing (preformancing.com), a firefox extension

:)