Steven FrankInterview
Mac developer, co-founder of Panic
Adapted from Steven Frank's interview on Uses This, published 17 January 2009. 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 has a Drobo with 1+ TB of storage attached, and I leave file and screen sharing so I can get to that Mac from any other computer over the internet.
Oh, and of course my iPhone is with me at all times.
Communication
Mail is my master inbox for keeping track of everything I still need to do, and I use IMAP mailboxes to keep all three Macs in sync.
Productivity
LaunchBar is usually the first piece of software I install on any Mac.
Browser
Coding & Development
All of our source code is managed with Subversion, so that's available wherever I go.
I'll pop open VMWare Fusion if I need to test something on our site with Internet Explorer.
Media
I use Skitch a lot for taking and sharing quick screenshots, as well as lightweight image cropping and resizing.
Storage
I've also been pretty impressed recently with Dropbox for getting a file or two onto all my Macs extremely quickly.
Other
And for storing passwords, serial numbers, and notes, so far Yojimbo is the best for me, thanks to its support for MobileMe syncing.