Seb ChanInterview
Head of Digital, Powerhouse Museum
Adapted from Seb Chan's interview on Uses This, published 26 September 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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I use a newish 15" MacBook Pro (i7 2.2gHz, 4GB RAM) as my main machine for pretty much everything.
There's also a reasonably recent iMac in the kitchen which operates as the family computer and media server.
My everyday earphones have just switched to some rather excellent and cheap AiAiAi pipes which have a surprisingly clear sound, phenomenal bass response, and enough noise isolation to make public transport a reasonable solitary experience.
ATH-ANC7b QuietPoint Active+ 3 others
When I fly I use a pair of Audio Technica ATH-NC7b active noise-cancelling headphones.
Communication
Mail.app sits in the dock alerting me hourly to whether communication from elderly people, fantastic business propositions from deposed dictators, endless meeting requests, or just that new digital promos from record labels have arrived.
Productivity
My daily reading is curated via RSS and then managed by Instapaper.
Browser
Coding & Development
Media
Storage
My remote backups are handled and sent to the cloud by Jungle Disk.
Other
Occasionally 'serious' gaming happens via Steam and the last boxed product I bought was Dragons Age 2.