Ruthie BenDorInterview
Web designer/developer
Adapted from Ruthie BenDor's interview on Uses This, published 17 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 ↗
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My laptop is a refurbished 13" MacBook Air with a 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD.
I carry it in the best laptop case ever made: the SFBags MacBook Air Wallet.
A Sierra Wireless 598U USB Modem gives me broadband-ish access anywhere Sprint has coverage in the United States.
My phone is a 32GB iPhone 3GS.
Yep, solar charger: the Suntactics PC5 solar charger is small, light, rugged, and has some circuitry that automagically compensates for the iPhone's hate for third-party chargers.
I listen to podcasts and audiobooks on the road with a cheap pair of Koss KSC75 headphones.
My backup hard drive is a Transcend StoreJet 320GB ruggedized external hard drive.
My camera is a Panasonic Lumix GF-2 with a 14mm f/2.5 aspherical lens.
Handlebar bag is an Ortlieb Ultimate5 Plus with a waterproof map case on top.
Communication
Productivity
Notes
Security
For sanity: 1Password, because my memory leaks like <del>Adobe Creative Suite</del> a sieve.
Coding & Development
Design
Media
For media production: Aperture for photos.
Storage
Other
I'm also carrying a no-name 1-gig flash drive, and a Square reader in case someone runs after my bicycle shouting "Wait!