Maria BustillosInterview
Writer
Adapted from Maria Bustillos's interview on Uses This, published 28 September 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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Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000+ 8 others
I have a single, smallish Acer monitor and a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard; those really are much easier on the wrists.
I also have an HP G62 laptop.
For interviews I use the mind-blowingly, insanely great Livescribe Echo Smartpen with the plain black Livescribe notebooks.
Communication
I also play Scrabble on Facebook most every day with a couple of my oldest friends.
Productivity
Alas, the same cannot be said of my tough-to-break addiction to MS Word.
Browser
Coding & Development
But I keep hearing all kinds of writers raving about Scrivener, and am looking forward to trying it out soon.
Storage
And Mat Honan recently scared me into getting a Crashplan account for backups.
Other
My main machine is a frail, elderly Dell PC, running XP.
Though I must say, I really don't care for Windows 7; it's far too complicated, and also pitifully condescending; tries to keep you from getting under the hood.
If I could I would go back to Windows 98, or whatever the last one was that allowed you to boot straight into DOS.
For software, the best $30 I ever spent was on Applian's Replay Telecorder, a fuss-free Skype recorder.