I recently went on a trip to San Diego. My wonderful girlfriend was a speaker at a law of attraction cruise ship seminar and I went to help sell her new book “Already Rich“.
When I travel I use almost the same setup as when I’m home. This greatly helps in getting things done while on the road.
I use my laptop primarily, I’m currently on Windows but eyeing a Mac. I love web applications as I can share data with people and the data isn’t even on my computer. So on this trip and everyday I use Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Reader. I also did some work while in San Diego and I use Freshbooks to track time and invoices. I got some new clients while on the trip and used Highrise to record them in my contact management system. I store my passwords securely in keepass. I use JungleDisk to keep some of the files I need but won’t fit on my computers harddrive. Plus I use Mozy to create backups of what is on my computer. I use Skype to receive calls and to call out. Works anywhere that I can get on the Internet. Makes life easy. I forward Skype to my mobile if I’m traveling. I set it to forward after 10 seconds. Then on my mobile I have Google Voice handling the voice mail and it sends me a text message of the voice mail translation.
Now getting wifi while traveling can be interesting. Some people have a mobile phone hookup to their computer to get online. I always find wifi, free wifi is Wefi. It maps the nearest places to you of known wifi. Pretty handy.
If you are like me and have a big iTunes library of music you have to put it on an external hard drive as it won’t fit on your laptop’s hard drive. If you use Hamachi and a home computer you can still have your home network drive that has your music on it show up on your laptop while traveling. You can use iTunes just like at home, however syching your iPod can take several hours instead of a couple of minutes. If I’m traveling for longer than a week or two I set this up otherwise I just go with my iPod nano and wait to synch it when I get home.
P.S. See my personal post about my trip.
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