Nozlee SamadzadehInterview
Writer, editor, IA (Flat, The Morning News)
Adapted from Nozlee Samadzadeh's interview on Uses This, published 29 August 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
At home, I use an embarrassingly old HP DV2419 -- it'll be four years old in August.
These days it's essentially a desktop -- the CD drive is broken (not that I use it), the battery life is under 5 minutes, and the fan doesn't do much anymore so I use an Antec USB-powered cooling pad to keep it from overheating.
I still have all the charging cables for the various Samsung phones I had before getting an iPhone, although I don't have any of the Samsung phones themselves.
For Christmas last year our bosses got us all first-gen iPads.
Communication
My parents are both computer scientists of the latter type (my dad checks his email with Alpine!), and I inherited it from them.
I constantly have tabs open for Gmail/Gchat (I had to upgrade my account's memory last summer) and Twitter (I've had an account since 2007 when my only follower was my big sister).
(You'll notice none of those are links to my blogs themselves -- too embarrassing!) Tumblr is my favorite blogging platform yet for its simplicity and built-in social network -- for the past couple of years now I've been blogging about every meal I cook, and it's the simplicity of how easy it is to post to my Tumblr that's kept it going for so long.
Productivity
I paste my work into Open Office just before sending it to my editors, which is why, dear editors, my em dashes and quotation marks are never formatted correctly.
I don't know who else mourned the death of Kinja in 2008, but it took me a long time to recover.
Now I use Google Reader to keep track of my 100-odd feeds.
Browser
Whenever I'm doing QA for a project, I switch between Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on my Mac and Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and an emulator that runs several versions of Internet Explorer on the two PCs.
Notes
Coding & Development
Design
Media
The photos for my Tumblr are taken exclusively with ShakeItPhoto for iPhone -- actually an older version of it, since they changed the photo filter recently.
Other
Fortunately, the Menu Editor extension lets me keep to my old ways.
TMN uses contemporary art to illustrate our pieces, and there's no site better than Artlog for finding and keeping track of the artwork we feature.