Jobs: Producer of Internet projects Sergey Bulaev

Today, the party heading "Jobs" is a very interesting person who is behind a number of very popular blogs Runet. And "Layfhaker" among them :) intriguing details below!

By the way, Sergey promised to send our new official T-shirt one of those retvitnet this post. Lucky selects case. Dimensions have from S to XL and women too! Thank you for your stand by and hope to be lucky for you! Naturally, the record of the draw will be posted at us the day after tomorrow.

What do you do?

It so happened that all my conscious life is connected with the Internet. It all started with the creation of fan pages about Bruce Willis in 1997. I remember, even wrote a letter (by mail offline) Willis agent with a proposal to make my official website and even got a real response to the refusal :) Then there were dozens of different projects and businesses, and the continuity of life in Network. For me quite normal is online for 12-15 hours a day, and even his wife has put up with it.

At the moment, my main job - guide the development of the western project: working on prototypes of interfaces that make up the terms of reference for programmers, in control of the development. Just as I have a few personal projects at different stages of development within my company "buffer Bay." For example, I produce (and I am a co-owner)

lifehacker.ru and supervise the creation Mikroknigobloga (still just a prototype). Four years ago, I created a blog "An online stuff", and the year before it was able to sell successfully. By the way, it was the third business that I sold.

How does your workplace?

I have two main jobs. First of all, this is my office. Here I not only work on the Internet, but also to meet different people, spend the meeting.

The road from my house to the office takes only 7 minutes, but I often have to overcome them by car, since it is often during the working day need to travel to meetings.

But the second work area has no physical binding since both had to remake the children's home office last year. Son is 2 years old and we decided that the room he needed. So a home desktop had to be replaced on a good laptop. It is quite heavy, and I do not carry it with you, but I can work at home in the most unexpected places :)

In addition, in the summer I often work on the same Toshiba at his dacha (from the city to her only 20 km away).

What hardware are using?

Immediately I must confess, I love Apple products, I do not want anyone to argue or debate, but there's no getting around it. I have no prejudice to other platforms and other opinions, I just like this.

In the office I have is 24 "iMac with an optional Dell monitor that is rotated vertically. The secondary monitor constantly two browsers open and is mainly used for communication in the messengers, and working with documents. Connected to the computer external hard drive terrabaytny the Seagate, it is necessary for a variety of backups, as well as the storage of my personal photo archive.

Currently I use a standard wired keyboard and Apple Magic Mouse. I have a wireless keyboard, but its use in the office uncomfortable as always need additional numeric keys that it lacks. Until the Magic Mouse I was a great mouse Logitech MX Revolution, it is very high in contrast to the Magic, and I thought that this will be a problem. But removing the MX Revolution in a drawer, I did never took out.

At home, my MacBook Pro 2.8 with 4GB memory. I went to him last year with a simple black Macbook. As a home media center I use the Mac mini 2.0, which is dvi-hdmi cable connected to your TV. Unfortunately, my old home impressive cinema no optical audio input and I have to put up with the lack of 5-channel sound in the movies.

Internet gives AirportExtreme of 802.11, it is connected to the NAS Synology DS209j, there are two terrabaytnyh HDD Samsung. NAS is managed through a web interface and is very versatile. I'm very pleased and would recommend to anyone who needs a universal home network storage.

At the cottage I have is a stationary antenna for Skylink, C-motech modem connected to a Wi-Fi AP Trendnet, which, in turn, is connected to a 1.5 meter antenna MultiCo. Covers all my 8 acres, as well as all areas coming :) The rate on average 512-768 kbps, the video does not look, but for quite missing.

Never part with IPhone 3GS, this is the 2nd my iPhone. First they brought me from America 3 months after the start of sales. He lasted 1.5 years and died accidentally fell into a boiling kettle. This Italian, I bought last fall in Moscow, having realized that the wait for the official for a long time.

I also have an additional phone HTC Tattoo, for which I even ordered an individual body, they are not particularly happy with, I regret that a little bit not wait for Nexus One. I have to constantly remember him here and there - all hope that his someone steals and with peace of mind, I can buy a google phone.

What software use?

On all my computers have officially bought Snow Leopard. This is the third version of Mac OS on which I work, and I really like it.

Most of my work takes place in the browser. Recently, always I use Google Chrome, mainly due to the speed. Unfortunately, Macs it is quite damp, and from time to time have to run floppy Firefox.

Center of my communication - Adium, it simultaneously connected to Google Talk, Facebook, and Skype. But ICQ do not use more than six months and did not regret it. Fortunately, those of my friends who was not able to go on gtalk or of skype, now routinely go on Facebook.

My primary mailbox for many years is located on gmail, clearly no matter what it would not change, but personal, accounting for only 2-3 letters a day, read through the Mail.

For many years, collecting information in Yojimbo, I really liked synchronization via Mobile Me. But the program completely has ceased to grow, developers are not something that is not done, not even promised for iPhone application, and it was all the more necessary and more necessary. As a result, a couple of months ago I migrated to Evernote (You even have a custom script). Certainly the product is not without flaws (especially killing a terrible app for iPhone), but it copes with its task very well. As a result, the number of added elements has increased in 1.5 times, I think it is very significant. By the way, recently the founder of Evernote Stepan Pachikov appeared in Runetologii and I really liked this release. He told a lot of interesting things and makes me great respect.

LittleSnapper actively use, very easy to use program to quickly take a screenshot, note on it that's just as fast to put on the Internet. One of the main tools of my work. What is missing is the synchronization base screens between computers, but still like the program so much that I went to look at the the creators of the site and as a result bought also the second software product of the same team: Socialite - read Google Reader client and Twitter. Now, too, I use it every day.

For internal documentation in communication with developers and other employees using Google Docs, and in it I always write a variety of reports. But to prepare the beautiful documents, which will have to go outside, run Pages. But in general, in terms I am quite variable texts such as your blog I write through Apple Mail (platform - Posterous), but this text is generally prepared in Evernote.

Targets for all projects tracked through the Things, to him have been tried dozens of programs and Web services, and no one I could not hold more than a month, but the Things have opened daily for half a year, still I continue to be surprised reasonableness of the program. Minus only one: as in LittleSnapper no normal sync between computers. There are certainly ways to work with one base through Mobile Me (or Dropbox), but in this case it is necessary to clearly follow that the program would not be launched simultaneously in different places, but I would not succeed.

My home media center running Plex. The system plays Full HD movies, the truth of this film should be either on the internal or the external hard drive connected directly to your computer. But 720p is excellent work through Wi Fi. The system is controlled with a standard Apple Remote, and when I can not find, then use Air Mouse on your iPhone. By the way it are many applications.

Most often I use: Safari, Things, Facebook and Evernote. RSS read through Byline, he sinhronizuruetsya with Google Reader. SoundHound - recognition of songs, NoteMaster - Editor notes are synced to Google Docs, Dayta - daily monitoring of various indicators, Ego - the number of subscribers and traffic to our blogs.

Computer games, I never liked too much time at the computer for work, did not want him still and relax. But the iPhone slowly begins to change my attitude to this case :) Now busy repetition Plants vs Zombies. By the way, if you have a child that you are willing to allow to play on the iPhone, then pay attention to my favorite applications three sons: TalkingCarl - most favorite, ZooWawa, BabyCounting and Smart kid. He also likes to play GTA, but we do not allow it.

configuration dreams

In principle, I'm pleased with the desktop system and laptop. Despite the fact that Macs to sync all is well, it would be desirable that would be even better. Either way, its absence or performing detours - a big minus for me many programs. Of course, looking forward to the iPad - I will use it instead of nouta traveling. My dream is to buy a printer for printing labels. The first way to use I saw a couple of years ago in the printer Getting Things Done, and just really wanted to buy something like that. Regularly I find this thing more and more applications, but did not dare to spend so much money on it.

Sergey Bulaev Twitter.