Maggie McFeeInterview
Technologist
Adapted from Maggie McFee's interview on Uses This, published 15 May 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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My secondary machine is a quad-core Mac Pro that I use solely for editing and transcoding internal video projects.
I also have a MacBook Air for the dreaded meetings and for hiding out during lunch (like right now!).
Everything in my house is tied, in one way or another, via gigabit ethernet to a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ network attached storage device.
It backs up nightly to bare drives sitting in a NewerTech drive cradle.
The internal RAID backs up to a 6TB external software RAID in a Sans Digital TR5M enclosure.
Audio in/out is through a cheap Behringer 4-channel mixer and a pair of M-Audio BX5a studio speakers.
There's also an M-Audio Axiom 49 MIDI controller and a control surface whose brand and model escapes me.
My day-to-day computer is a Mac Mini hooked to a cheap-ish 24" monitor.
It has a Wacom tablet - the same old Intuos3 I've had for, like, 7 or 8 years - and a couple of BYO-drive NewerTech MiniStack enclosures hanging off it for cloning and scratch storage.
I have a MacBook Pro for travel or off-site stuff.
The only one that's come close to 'normal' is the Mighty Mouse with the clitoral scroll wheel.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Coding & Development
Occasionally I use VMware Fusion if I have to test something on Windows.
Design
Media
Storage
Other
One app I've come to adore and use a lot is ExpanDrive.