Rui CarmoInterview
Systems Engineer
Adapted from Rui Carmo's interview on Uses This, published 28 February 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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My main machine at work is a 2010 Mac Mini with 4GB of RAM and three monitors - two Dell 23" and a mongrel Samsung 17", this last one via a DisplayLink USB adapter that the guys there kindly mailed me a few years back.
I also have an embarrassing amount of USB storage and network hardware that I've put together over the years, of which only a small portion is online now - Wi-Fi coverage and file and print serving is done by two Airport Extreme base stations (both 802.11n capable) linked via an unlikely mix of Cat.
Communication
Productivity
2Do to fill in the gaping hole in iOS PIM functionality
GoodReader for giving presentations in a sane way until Keynote got a presenter display
Browser
Notes
Nebulous for editing code on the go
Coding & Development
Design
Media
Stanza for those times when my Kindle is too big to bring along
Storage
And, of course, I also use the utterly amazing Dropbox to keep everything else together.
Other
Evernote (I use it at least as much on the move as on the desktop)
Reeder for reading my RSS feeds (I've yet to try the Mac app, but if it is half as good, it's a winner)
Instapaper for reading stuff, you know...