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We get lots of emails asking us what tools we use to build our products and run our business, so I figured we’d just post it to the blog.

• For text editing, HTML, programming, and CSS work we use a combination of TextWrangler, TextMate, and Vim.
• For accounting we use Quickbooks Pro 2006 for Mac (we download our statements from Chase and American Express into Quickbooks).
• For tech support we use Gmail and TypeIt4Me.
• For internal bug tracking we use Trac.
• For managing our email newsletters we use Campaign Monitor.
• For running our blogs we use Movable Type.
• For managing our RSS feeds we use Feedburner.
• For our Basecamp and Backpack forums we use PunBB.
• For computers we use Apple Powerbooks and iMac G5s (we also have a Dell for testing on the PC).
• For our payment gateway we use Authorize.net.
• For our web hosting we use Tilted.
• For designing documents we use Adobe InDesign.
• For instant group communications we use Apple iChat, Skype, Adium, and Campfire.
• For keeping people organized we use Sunrise.

And of course Ruby on Rails powers our apps, Writeboard helps us write, Ta-da List keeps our quick and dirty lists in order, Basecamp helps us manage projects and products, and Backpack helps us all stay dangerously organized.