Ryan NorthInterview
Cartoonist (Dinosaur comics)
Adapted from Ryan North's interview on Uses This, published 20 April 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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It's great because I've got all the monitors on mounts now so they float above the desk and give me room for other things there.
One monitor is an older Cintiq that I got from my brother and use whenever I'm designing merchandise for the comic and need / want to be able to draw on the screen.
While traveling or at the office I have a dual-book Win7/OS X MacBook that I'm getting rid of soon due to it not actually being very good (don't tell anyone).
Performance Mouse MX+ 9 others
And Logitech's new MX mice are amazing.
Communication
Browser
Coding & Development
Textpad - text editing software that I do most of my writing and development in.
Media
Winamp - I've tried a bunch of other music players but always come back to Winamp because it's small and has global hotkeys.
Storage
Dropbox - everyone should be using Dropbox.
Other
Befriend an Android phone owner, earn their trust, and they will one day confide this secret to you: Android isn't as good as it should be.
Ultramon - a must when working with multiple monitors.