Jordan McRaeInterview
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Adapted from Jordan McRae's interview on Uses This, published 2 January 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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The core of my day-to-day workstation is built around my 15" MacBook Pro with i7 processor and 8GB RAM and a bluetooth mouse.
I recently joined the 21st century and purchased my first smartphone, a Galaxy S II with a 32GB micro SD card.
Since I don't own a car but love riding around the streets of Paris, I also consider my bike, a Btwin RockRider 5.0 a critical part of my hardware setup.
I really like my small PicoScope 2204 PC Oscilloscope as an alternative to the bulky and expensive lab Oscilloscopes.
When I'm traveling or working on projects in developing countries I'll pull my 13" XPS M1330 out of retirement as a travel/field computer.
For Scuba diving I use a Suunto D6 Dive computer.
I also use a waterproof/crushproof Olympus Stylus Tough 8010 camera, good for rugged environments and taking underwater photos.
Everything gets thrown into an Osprey Atmos 50 Backpack, a relatively small sized bag that I've had for a while, but perfect for a month of trekking through places like Thailand or Mozambique or doing field work in Guatemala or Haiti.
Communication
For GTD I also use the multiple inboxes and superstars lab features in Gmail.
Productivity
Browser
Notes
Also, I've recently been incorporating a few of the techniques from the Getting Things Done (GTD) method into my daily life, so Evernote is also one of my key applications.
Coding & Development
Also, I've recently started playing around with web development in HTML 5 and CSS using a simple text editor, TextMate.
Design
Media
Storage
Other
On the XPS M1330 I have a dual boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux.