Jeff LaMarcheInterview
Author, software developer
Adapted from Jeff LaMarche's interview on Uses This, published 5 October 2010. 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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I use a current generation unibody 17" MacBook Pro as my main machine.
Communication
For my blog, I use the excellent MarsEdit.
I use Skype for conference calls and calls with overseas clients, and am a somewhat obsessive Twitterer.
Productivity
For Apress, I have to work in Word 2008.
Coding & Development
For PragProg, I write in TextMate (which I also use for lots of other purposes).
My next most frequently used application, believe it or not, is Terminal.app.
Design
My current book project is on OpenGL ES, and I'm using the alpha of Blender 2.5 a lot in the process of writing the book.
Media
For creating screencasts for my blog or for customers, I use iShowU HD, and on the rare occasion when I need to run a Windows application, I use Wine.
Other
I keep Apple's Activity Monitor open at all times with the floating CPU usage meters visible so I can tell how hard I'm making my machine work at any given moment.