Peter MolfeseInterview
Research scientist (Haskins Labs)
Adapted from Peter Molfese's interview on Uses This, published 5 February 2013. 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 chair is a Herman Miller Aeron Chair, which solved most of my back problems that developed before I learned how important a good chair is.
My personal computer is a mid-2011 1.8Ghz Core i7 "Sandy Bridge" MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM and 256GB flash storage.
I read books and browse the interwebs on the couch using my iPad 2 Wifi with 32GB of storage.
I'm rarely without my black iPhone 5 on Verizon.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Notes
In the meantime I'm trying out Evernote, and I like it.
Security
Coding & Development
I have been using BBEdit as a quick powerful text editor for about a year, and it has changed my life in positive ways.
Once I have the data in a useable form, I export it to R.
Design
Media
Storage
And of course, none of this would be possible without Dropbox.
Other
This manages to do some fraction of my work; I also farm some of the processing to four other Mac Pros with the similar specs, controlled by the now discontinued Xgrid.
Both my work and home computers are running OS X Mountain Lion.