Amber CaseInterview
Cyborg anthropologist, UX designer
Adapted from Amber Case's interview on Uses This, published 21 November 2011. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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To document all of these items I use a Canon PowerShot ELPH 300 HS.
I use an EyeFi Connect 4G SD card for this.
The central one is a 30" Dell HD monitor.
My home is a 600 square foot rectangle armed with an iMac, a handful of X-10 controllers, some temperature sensors, a camera, and a private IRC server.
If I'm mobile, I type notes on the iPhone 3GS notepad at up to 45 WPM (on a good day).
For everyday computing I use a 11" MacBook Air.
Communication
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.
I use Colloquy as an IRC client for Mac and iPhone.
I use Gmail for mail, but the overhead of E-mail is nauseating to me.
Productivity
I use Google Calendar for personal and business calendars.
My favorite app for Mac is JumpCut.
Notes
Coding & Development
I make lots of TextEdit files throughout the day that I dump into a number of wikis, depending on their content.
Design
Sometimes I use Photoshop for mockups.
Media
Skitch and Flickr are my power tools.
Storage
I use Dropbox for syncing, and it goes to a server in the closet at home for nightly backups.
Other
I read a lot and founded a geo-startup called Geoloqi with geo-hacker Aaron Parecki.
I like history and the future, and building real-life games like MapAttack!