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Cartoonist behind Dinosaur Comics and writer of Marvel's Squirrel Girl and the Hugo-winning To Be or Not To Be.
9 things
Logitech MX mouseHardware Logitech
Oh! And Logitech's new MX mice are amazing. Comfortable, awesome, and with buttons that make the scroll wheel transform. It's the first mouse I've loved.
His Uses This interview, on the multi-monitor rig and Windows utilities behind Dinosaur Comics.
2012-04-20·usesthis.com ↗
KindleHardware Amazon
I guess I should mention I also got a 3G Kindle which I love and a Withings scale that posts my weight to Twitter, which is lots of fun, but also kinda cheesy because every post has their URL slapped on the end of it.
His Uses This interview, on the multi-monitor rig and Windows utilities behind Dinosaur Comics.
2012-04-20·usesthis.com ↗
TextpadSoftware
Textpad - text editing software that I do most of my writing and development in. It gets out of the way when you need it but has great features like regular expression search/replace (so handy!) and search-in-files, which I use quite a bit too.
His Uses This interview, on the multi-monitor rig and Windows utilities behind Dinosaur Comics.
2012-04-20·usesthis.com ↗
WinampSoftware
Winamp - I've tried a bunch of other music players but always come back to Winamp because it's small and has global hotkeys.
His Uses This interview, on the multi-monitor rig and Windows utilities behind Dinosaur Comics.
2012-04-20·usesthis.com ↗
DropboxSoftware
Dropbox - everyone should be using Dropbox. I've got their 100GB option because it's totally worth it.
His Uses This interview, on the multi-monitor rig and Windows utilities behind Dinosaur Comics.
2012-04-20·usesthis.com ↗
UltramonSoftware
Ultramon - a must when working with multiple monitors. The keyboard shortcuts for moving windows around are insanely useful. Worth every penny.
His Uses This interview, on the multi-monitor rig and Windows utilities behind Dinosaur Comics.
2012-04-20·usesthis.com ↗
AutoHotKeySoftware
AutoHotkey - I used to use a program called Winkey, but that got discontinued, so now I use this. It's free software that lets you map all sorts of actions to the keyboard.
His Uses This interview, on the multi-monitor rig and Windows utilities behind Dinosaur Comics.
2012-04-20·usesthis.com ↗
Lenovo T520Hardware Lenovo
It's being replaced with a Lenovo T520 with a "Thinkpad Mini Doc Plus Series 3 170W" dock (that's what they call it!) that supports 3 external monitors.
His Uses This interview, on the multi-monitor rig and Windows utilities behind Dinosaur Comics.
2012-04-20·usesthis.com ↗
Motorola XT 860Hardware Motorola
I had a jailbroken iPhone 3GS till its cell receiver died making it a very thick and expensive iPod, so now I've got a Motorola XT 860 because I wanted a physical keyboard. Guess what, it's kinda sucky too!
His Uses This interview, on the multi-monitor rig and Windows utilities behind Dinosaur Comics.
2012-04-20·usesthis.com ↗
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