We just won a 2012 HOW Interactive Design award for SPIN Play for iPad, which is a design competition that recognizes awesome interaction design, blog design, app design, and amazing interactive projects as well as inspiring website design.
SPIN Play has previously won a 2011 Media Vanguard Award, as well as being inducted into the iTunes App Store iPad Hall of Fame. Wee!
Productivity / Business:
iCloud: $20/year (10gb)
Dropbox: $100/year (50gb)
Evernote: $45/year
CloudHQ: $49/year
Basecamp (basic): $288/year
Google Apps for Business: $50/user/year
Arc : $29.99 + S3 bucket (.14/GB; $7mo for 50gb = $84/year)
Dropbox and Evernote are a must. CloudHQ sync’s all my Google Apps and Basecamp docs as files to Dropbox. This is incredibly handy for having access to all those documents as actual files on your iPad and iPhone. Arc is essentially TimeMachine in the cloud. It’s more reliable and safer than praying that a consumer-grade external hard drive is durable enough to withstands the test of time.
Entertainment:
Spotify: $120/year
iTunes Match: $25/year
Netflix: $96/year
Hulu Plus: $96/year
MLB.tv: $110/year
I use Spotify for new music exploration, playlisting, and sharing music with friends. iCloud/iTunes match for my deep music library that doesn’t exist on Spotify. Together I spend more on music per year than I did in the previous several combined. Go music industry! Woo!
Netflix, Hulu Plus and iTunes rentals cover all movies and TV shows entertainment. MLB.tv is the only way I could watch and/or listen to every San Francisco Giants game. I’m canceling my cable TV subscription.
All told, I’d theoretically be paying $1083 for what I’d consider my ideal setup. I’m likely missing some things, but it surprised me how quickly this cracks $1k.
This. Is. Awesome.
