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Cyborg anthropologist and UX designer; author of Calm Technology and co-founder of the geolocation startup Geoloqi.
11 things
JumpCutSoftware
My favorite app for Mac is JumpCut. JumpCut allows one to store up to 50 clipboard objects and access them with a tiny set of keyboard shortcuts. The interface is invisible until one needs it. It makes me feel like my short term memory is suddenly 50 memories long, instead of just 4 or 5.
Her Uses This interview, on documenting everything and the home automation around it.
2011-11-21·usesthis.com ↗
SkitchSoftware
Skitch and Flickr are my power tools. Together, they form my external brain. I take screenshots with Skitch, edit them, mark them up and press the Share button to send them up to Flickr, where I then cite, categorize, annotate and store them for later use.
Her Uses This interview, on documenting everything and the home automation around it.
2011-11-21·usesthis.com ↗
FlickrService
Skitch and Flickr are my power tools. Together, they form my external brain. I take screenshots with Skitch, edit them, mark them up and press the Share button to send them up to Flickr, where I then cite, categorize, annotate and store them for later use.
Her Uses This interview, on documenting everything and the home automation around it.
2011-11-21·usesthis.com ↗
OmnigraffleSoftware The Omni Group
When I was at Vertigo Software I was quite tied to Visio, but at Geoloqi I'm predominately on a Mac, so I've switched over to Omnigraffle for wireframing.
Her Uses This interview, on documenting everything and the home automation around it.
2011-11-21·usesthis.com ↗
MacBook AirHardware Apple
For everyday computing I use a 11" MacBook Air. It fits in a tiny bag. I used to carry a MacBook Pro 15" and a MacBook 13" in the same Timbuktoo bag. It was rather unpleasant. The Air is good for planes and has great battery life and speed. It multitasks like a pro and handles lots of large files.
Her Uses This interview, on documenting everything and the home automation around it.
2011-11-21·usesthis.com ↗
NetDrawSoftware Steve Borgatti
The point of the giant setup is that in my freetime I like running giant network visualizations using NetDraw, a free program written by Steve Borgatti for visualizing both 1-mode and 2-mode social network data.
Her Uses This interview, on documenting everything and the home automation around it.
2011-11-21·usesthis.com ↗
ColloquySoftware
I use Colloquy as an IRC client for Mac and iPhone. Colloquy connects both to Freenode, the internal Geoloqi IRC channels, and the home channel with the Loqi bot.
Her Uses This interview, on documenting everything and the home automation around it.
2011-11-21·usesthis.com ↗
DropboxService Dropbox
I use Dropbox for syncing, and it goes to a server in the closet at home for nightly backups. Redundancy is important.
Her Uses This interview, on documenting everything and the home automation around it.
2011-11-21·usesthis.com ↗
MediaWikiSoftware
For my blog I use Wordpress, for any constructive writing, notes and ideas I use MediaWiki.
Her Uses This interview, on documenting everything and the home automation around it.
2011-11-21·usesthis.com ↗
Canon PowerShot ELPH 300 HSHardware Canon
To document all of these items I use a Canon PowerShot ELPH 300 HS. I take around 30,000 photos a year. This breaks the camera.
Her Uses This interview, on documenting everything and the home automation around it.
2011-11-21·usesthis.com ↗
EyeFi Connect 4GHardware Eye-Fi
When I get home all of my documents automatically upload to Flickr on private mode, so that I can choose which ones to reveal or delete with a minimum of work. I use an EyeFi Connect 4G SD card for this.
Her Uses This interview, on documenting everything and the home automation around it.
2011-11-21·usesthis.com ↗
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The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
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