Wilson MinerInterview
Web designer (Rdio)
Adapted from Wilson Miner's interview on Uses This, published 5 April 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 main machine is a 15" MacBook Pro 2.66GHz i7 with a 250GB SSD.
I use the laptop at work with a 23" LED Cinema Display, and when I travel for work I take this machine with me.
At home I have a 27" iMac 2.93 GHz i7 with 8GB of RAM, 200GB SSD and 1TB second drive which I use for archives of photos and project files.
Performance Mouse MX+ 9 others
I have a Logitech Performance MX mouse at home and at work.
I have a Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB drive at home and at work, which are used as Time Machine backups for each of my two machines.
It's connected to a ReadyNAS NV+ RAID device which has a lot of video on it, and years worth of collected music that I don't listen to anymore since it's all on Rdio now.
Roku is getting a lot of traction these days, and Rdio just released an app for it, so I might try that out soon.
Communication
I recently started using Sparrow for email, since all my email is Google Accounts-based.
Productivity
I use Things for keeping some semblance of organization about what I'm working on, and of course Rdio for music.
I use iCal to manage and sync all my Google calendars over CalDAV.
Browser
Notes
Notational Velocity+ 23 others
I use Notational Velocity synced to Simplenote as a digital notebook.
Coding & Development
When I lived in Lawrence, I helped create the original version of the Django web framework.
I use TextMate for the code I still write, which is less and less these days.
I recently started using Tower for dealing with Git repositories, which I'm very impressed with.
Design
Media
I'm currently head of design for Rdio, a new social music service.
Storage
I keep current project files on Dropbox, and for the few apps I use everyday that don't have some kind of built-in sync support, I store the library files in a Dropbox folder.
Other
I use it all the time, for reading on the train with the Kindle app, music with Rdio, Twitter, etc.
I use the excellent LittleSnapper from Realmac software as a visual scrapbook of designs and images that I want to steal from...
I also love a site called Lookwork, which works like a kind of visual RSS reader, extracting images from feeds and displaying them in a light table layout for quick skimming.