The last day of August, 2012, I got a box in the mail. The contents? A 16GB Nexus 7. My first android device.

Since then, its been a fun ride, and I’ve learned the various cool tools out there for a IT person.

I do contract work with a nameless startup incubator in the area, and as part of that, I’m partially responsible for printers, user-facing documentation, etc.

As such, I was constantly plugging and unplugging my laptop to show people this, that or the other. however, the tablet has replaced my laptop for a lot of those duties. Let me explain more.

Documentation.

Like it or not, we all have to document things. And we have to do it well, for our intended audience. Now, we have two main pieces of user-facing documentation – the WiFi setup, and the printer setup. Two documents,one of which changes as we fix things (printers).

The Nexus 7 is just the right for me to pull of the document and refer to it as I’m working on someone’s machine. The apps I use for that are:

• Dropbox. We use a shared dropbox folder to share the documents.

Now, to view them, I need a office type tool. While I could (and have) use Google drive, it doesn’t lend itself to the situation well.

I’ve looked at the softmaker line of products, but I haven’t been impressed with their linux offerings, so I’m not sure if I should risk the price for the full amount.

However, I am very happy with Kingston Office Writer.

It’s free, and available for Android here.

SSH.

The ConnectBot family is well-known and very well featured for being able to do SSH.

However, I’ve discovered that stock ConnectBot doesn’t play nice with function keys on bluetooth keyboards, so I am using a fork of ConnectBot called VX ConnectBot that properly supports external keyboards.

ConnectBot supports SSH keys, although I don’t make use of them – I don’t do enough SSH on my tablet to worry about that.

Notes.

Evernote. While I used to be a fan of Tomboy/Tomdroid/Ubuntu One, recent events have pushed me into the Evernote fold. And I must say, it’s nice. I’m using it to write this blog post right now.

I shell out the cash each month for Evernote Premium, and while I’m enjoying it so far, there are a few “problems” I have with it, but I also had them with Tomboy.

• No Markdown support. Really, everything should support markdown.
• Search sucks. Always has, always will. Someday someone will make search that doesn’t suck, but that day has not yet come.
• inline image embedding. For this, that’d be really nice. But oh well.

PDF Viewer.

Amazon Kindle or the built-in PDF reader are my go-to PDF readers. They aren’t terrific, but they are ok.

Email.

Ahg. Email, the bane of every IT persons existence. Email is something I detest.
People need to understand that when they email me, I will see it, and then prioritize it. I’m sad that people think that emailing me = instant response and I go …read more
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