Matt Cutts

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For socks, WRIGHTSOCK makes two-layer socks that minimize blistering. It's an old hiking trick to wear a thin pair of liner socks inside your regular socks to prevent blisters.

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Strava is a free smartphone app and website for tracking your running and biking. Once you have a few friends in Strava, you can share kudos and motivate each other.

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If you're going to run no more than 5-6 hours (like a marathon), I'd recommend the Garmin Forerunner 610. It has an intuitive interface and touch screen.

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If you plan on running 7-8 hours or more (like a half-Ironman or more), the Garmin Forerunner 910XT is really nice.

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I love Pocket Casts for podcasts. It costs $3.99 but totally worth it to listen to This Week in Google and This American Life and Stephen Tobolowsky.

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TripIt rocks for tracking your all your travel information: flights, hotels, and rental cars.

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If you haven't tried Waze yet, it's really good at shaving off a few minutes from your morning drive commute.

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For my website mattcutts.com I use Tiger Tech for webhosting, and for my blog I use WordPress.

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For my website mattcutts.com I use Tiger Tech for webhosting, and for my blog I use WordPress.

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an extra pen in a snack baggie (I like brown Uni-ball Signo 0.5mm pens from Maido)

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I use Gandi to register my domains – they now offer two-factor authentication too.

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I've got a Brother MFC-9840CDW wireless printer that can also fax ancient institutions that don't understand the Internet yet.

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In the main pocket of my backpack, you'll find my Chromebook Pixel, a Kindle Paperwhite, and a Wired magazine or Maximum PC magazine.

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For photo editing I use GIMP, and if I need something deeper, my wife has a Mac with Photoshop, Illustrator, and software to make movies and burn DVDs.