Tom ScottInterview
Geek comedian
Adapted from Tom Scott's interview on Uses This, published 20 November 2010. 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 beat-up Dell Latitude D830.
My main workhorse video camera is a Canon HV20 - picked up cheap as an ex-demo model.
I also have a Sanyo Xacti FH1 for special shots.
4104 Commentator's Ribbon Microphone
The last bit of the video editing rig is a Coles Electroacoustics 4104 microphone, cheap from a badly-spelled eBay auction.
Communication
Firefox with about twenty extensions for browsing, Gmail for email - which I don't like, but I can't find a better alternative to suit my needs.
Browser
The downside of that screen, though, is that I have to set my system DPI to a stupidly high amount and tell Firefox to zoom all web pages 130% by default.
Notes
I also spend a lot of time in Notepad++, which I use both as a code editor and my note-taking application; my file of ideas is literally just a text file that remains permanently open in a background tab.
Design
Media
Oh, and Winamp for playing music, still with the classic skin.
Other
I'd tried Android beforehand, and while it's a great OS - and having proper, non-shonky Gmail integration is a feature that I wish Apple would nail down - there's just no comparison to the iPhone in terms of usability.