Kevin KellyInterview
Writer, co-founder of Wired
Adapted from Kevin Kelly's interview on Uses This, published 16 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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I travel with a tiny, lovely, cheery 11-inch Mac Air, which I love.
In my travel bag I keep a pair of Bose Quite15 noise canceling earphones, which I will keep on even while I sleep on a flight.
Wireless Presenter R400+ 4 others
When I am presenting a talk I carry a Logitech Wireless Presenter for advancing slides remotely, and a Mac VGA dongle.
In my boring Toyota minivan, I have a Garmin Nuvi 1300 and an old nano iPod, filled with podcasts and audio books.
When I am seriously photographing I use a Lumix FZ35, with its awesome 18x optical zoom, the equivalent of something like a 400mm lens.
Communication
For the past 20 years plus the software I have used the most often was Eudora mail on the Mac.
But in order to sync my mail to my new Mac Air while traveling, I just moved my mail off of Eudora and over to Postbox, which I am liking.
Productivity
Browser
Notes
And I've long used NoteBook for keeping notes, although I will eventually migrate that function to Evernote.
Coding & Development
I use Scrivener to handle text while writing a book.
Design
Media
I use EasyBatchPhoto to resize images to fit the blog, despite the fact that I always have Photoshop open.