Products and Services I Use

Take a look at the various products and services I use everyday.

PC Hardware

Desktops and Laptops

• Dell (various models since the dawn of time)
• Lenovo (from work)

Phones and Tablets

• Microsoft Surface (v1 and v7)
• Samsung Tablets
• Samsung Phones
• Windows Phone (Curse you, Microsoft, for messing this one up. You had the best OS out there!)

Monitors, Keyboards, and Mice

• Dell Ultrasharp Monitors
• Lenovo Monitors
• Razer Keyboards
• Microsoft, Logitech, Razer mice (Trying to move away from Logitech as a brand)

Headset

• SteelSeries (First experience; very positive)

PC Software

• Windows 11
• Kubuntu
• Microsoft Visual Studio Code
• MS Office Suite including OneDrive
• Git and GitHub
• Adobe Creative Cloud (but now it's too expensive; should offer non-commercial hobbyist license)
• Autocad Fusion
• Blender (More complex than I'll ever master; but seems very powerful)
• Unity 3D

Social Media

• Ick. One of America's Top Ten Diseases

Chat and Collaboration

• Microsoft Teams (needs work)
• Zoom (Icky, but popular for some reason)
• Discord ('cuz the kids use it)

Games

• Age of Empires IV
• Microprose F117A

Guitars, Amps, Etc

• Fender guitars and bass
• Taylor acoustic and hybrids (e.g. T5Z)
• Fender Twin Reverb Tube, ToneMaster, and CyberTwin
• PRS (on wishlist)
• Fishman
• Boss Katana MkII (ok all-in-one practice amp, I suppose, but not stellar)
• Line 6 Helix
• Boss wireless

Recording

• Cakewark Sonar (If you're not using it, it you shoud seriously look at it.)

• Roland Octa-Capture

• Presonus Studio 24c

• Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Ggen 3 (Thanks, Barry!)

• AT DT 770 Headphones (favorites)

• Mackie HR 824 (Thanks to my brother!)

  Cloud

• Microsoft Azure

• Amazon Web Services (Trying to move away from all things in trhe Amazon empire)