I’m Toby Leftly, this is my personal site. I’m the owner of Accent Media, a small, focused web services studio located in Windsor, Ontario.
I was born 34 years ago in London, England and moved here 6 years ago, I’m extremely proud to call Windsor home. I’m passionate about the web, gadgets, mimimalism, design and happiness.
My current setup aspires to minimalism, but in reality that's a distant goal. My primary Mac is the fantastic 2011 13" MacBook Air. The SSD is unbeatable for quickly opening and saving web files.
The Air is hooked up to an aging-but-awesome 23" Cinema Display. I dream of upgrading to the 27" Display, but stick with this out of fond nostalgia.
Other hardware includes a Mac mini acting as home server, testbed and backup repository, a first gen iPad and an iPhone 4. I currently have no plans to upgrade either to the latest versions.
My software choices are mundane but carefully selected after many years of forming and tweaking my workflow. I favour lightweight tools where possible, my favourite vendor being Panic Inc.
I spend a lot of time in Photoshop, although I purchased Pixelmator long ago and can't wait for the day when I can switch. For coding I use TextMate (with a long-awaited version 2 on the way), having tried Coda and not being able to get comfortable with it (although news this week points to Coda 2 being in the works).
I spend large chunks of my days using online services and utilities. Google Apps powers all my email needs, it's great to be able to use Gmail but with my own domain names. I recently switched to iCloud for almost all my other syncing needs, and so far it seems stable and intuitive. I love Media Temple for all my hosting needs, their services are unique and support is second to none.
I'm a huge fan of Wordpress, but recently I created a Tumblr account and find it encourages me to post more tidbits, so I'll stick with it for a while. I'm enjoying Google+, but like most people struggle to find a spot for it in my daily rotation. My favourite new utility is ifttt.com, a simple tool for chaining events across common online tools. For project management, invoicing and estimating I use a neat little system called Harvest.
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