Daniel SinkerInterview
Director, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews
Adapted from Daniel Sinker's interview on Uses This, published 30 April 2012. 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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My sole computer is a 13" Late 2010 MacBook Air with 2gigs of RAM, 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, and a 250gig SSD drive.
My main phone, which is really an extension of my hand, is a Google Nexus S 4g running Gingerbread (because apparently Google has completely forgotten about this phone and, as of this writing, hasn't even announced a roadmap to Ice Cream Sandwich let alone the fucking software itself, grumble grumble grumble).
When I'm out of the US, my Sprint-based Nexus S is a very nice brick, so I have a trusty old-school GSM Google Nexus One that's unlocked so I can toss any old SIM in it.
Both my computing experience and phone experience wouldn't be complete without my Shure SE310 sound-isolating earphones.
Toss in an additional USB cable or two and any other random shit I need and suddenly the bottom of my backpack would look like hell without the trusty Klein Tools 5139 Canvas Zipper Bag.
Communication
That said, every iPhone user I know thinks I'm a magician because I can gChat with them while I walk around and still can't entirely comprehend how Google Voice works like it does on this phone, so suck on that.
Speaking of columns, I use Sparrow for my work e-mail, which is also a single column and sits on the right-hand side of my screen.
Productivity
I'm also trying to get accustomed to using The Hit List for my Getting Things Done lists.
Browser
Coding & Development
If I'm not in a browser, I'm probably in Coda, which I use as a text editor for making things on the web and for pretty much all my writing as well.