Anil DashInterview
Blogger, director of Expert Labs
Adapted from Anil Dash's interview on Uses This, published 7 May 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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These days I'm mostly on my 11" MacBook Air.
Communication
I also probably use iChat more than any other app, and feel like it gets a bit less credit than it deserves.
I still run my blog on Movable Type, nothing really new there.
Probably goes without saying, but I check my ThinkUp instance all the time; I really am excited about how the app is evolving and what I'll be able to do with my network once it's really matured as a platform.
Since we've got a kid who's less than two months old at home, his grandparents are obsessive about wanting to see him every day, and now that's much easier than the pain of wrestling with Skype or something.
Productivity
Browser
Well, I spend all day in Google Chrome, and that's where I do a ton of work, never really touching other browsers unless I'm testing something.
Notes
I always want to use Evernote, but somehow it just has a little bit too much interface getting in the way most of the time.
Security
Google Authenticator (iOS)+ 2 others
I really love the Google Authenticator app, which is a token generator for Google's 2-factor authentication, but makes me feel very safe and high-tech every time I open it up.
Coding & Development
And of course I'll have a few Terminal windows open, too.
Design
Media
Preview gets a big workout, and is another one of those apps that people overlook for its utility.
Interestingly, the most-used new app I've started running on an almost-daily basis this year is Facetime, either on my laptop or more frequently on my phone.
Storage
And increasingly, across all these platforms and scenarios, I find my work all grounded in DropBox.