{"id":1064,"date":"2011-12-09T18:53:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T00:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2011-12-15T11:06:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:06:25","slug":"ideal-office-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Ideal office setup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Todd Clarke's ideal office setup taken with iPhone 4s<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Todd<\/a>

Todd Clarke's ideal office setup<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Todd<\/a>

Todd Clarke's ideal office setup<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Todd<\/a>

Todd Clarke's ideal office setup<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Todd<\/a>

Todd Clarke's ideal office setup<\/p><\/div>\n

I have been pursuing my ideal office for decades and this arrangement is the closest I have come to a nirvana of office productivity. <\/p>\n

What you see here includes 7000 gigabytes (7 terabytes) of storage, 9 screens, 4 computers all controlled by one keyboard and mouse sitting on an Ikea desk. http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/
\n Additional equipment on deck includes 2 iPads<\/a>, one Kindle fire<\/a>, one iPhone<\/a>, a Fujitsu Scansnap S510 <\/a>scanner (for going paperless), a Brother PT-2430PC labeler and of course the all-important Aeron<\/a> chair.
\nMost of the monitors are 22\u201d to 24\u201d Samsung\u2019s with a 22\u201d Samsung USB Driven monitor a Phillips Boom Boom monitor and a Mimo 7\u201d USB driven monitor. The desktop computers are redundant setups with a physical keyboard\/mouse switch and Multiplicity software that ties them together with the MacbookAir, and the MacMini.<\/p>\n

The computers are task driven and run software during the day based on their portability. Starting left working right they include:<\/p>\n

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I have found this setup to be very efficient. The two HP desktops run jobs that take a long time \u2013 like backups or print runs, or they are used for big projects we have going \u2013 stuff that I want to leave up (like maps). The Mac mini is used mostly for coding apps for the iPhone\/iPad. The MacbookAir is my main day to day machine \u2013 so its running email, contact management, quickbooks, and document management. It is configured in such a way that on a moments notice I can pull its plug and dash out to a meeting.<\/p>\n

The glass wall you see to the left of my desk is a 8\u2019 wide x 4\u2019 tall white board that we write on and\/or tape things to as we work through projects .<\/p>\n

How is your office configured?<\/p>\n

One of my favorite blogs – Lifehacker.com has a great gallery of office setups \u2013 including this mobile<\/a> one or thi sone in a barn<\/a> – and this \"\"map<\/a> shows where everyone is located that has made a contribution to Lifehackers Workspace show and tell.<\/p>\n

Just a few days after I posted this article, I came across this showcase<\/a> of minimalist office setups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been pursuing my ideal office for decades and this arrangement is the closest I have come to a nirvana of office productivity. What you see here includes 7000 gigabytes (7 terabytes) of storage, 9 screens, 4 computers all controlled by one keyboard and mouse sitting on an Ikea desk. http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/ Additional equipment on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,36,34,12,29,49,48,14,51,50,8,33,32,41,7,3,37,31,42,47,5,15,44,54,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}