mobile office

Simplify Your Work Travel

3:00AM Tamar Weinberg | If you work on the road often, a little preparation can go a long way. Weblog Lifehack.org offers 10 tips for mobile working, like checking your insurance to ensure that you have the proper coverage: Not all insurers cover travelers for even little things like lost laptops. Especially if you’re going for a nomadic lifestyle, make sure that your insurance covers all eventualities—like health care in a foreign country or coverage for a broken computer. Additional recommendations include downsizing your equipment to minimise losses and to make your baggage all the more lighter. Photo by Sentience. 10 Steps to Working on the Road [Lifehack.org] More »

What Tools Do You Use in Your Mobile Office?

9:00AM Tamar Weinberg | With the increasing amount of online services available for your perusal, many workers are going mobile more and more—or they’re at least taking the opportunity to travel while not feeling too detached from work life. The Computerworld Blog suggests Lifehacker favourites to create your mobile office, including Flickr for photo storage, Skype for phone calls, Zoho for office software, and I Want Sandy as your to do list. What are the indispensable tools for you when you travel and still need to be connected? Share your favourite webapps in the comments. How to Work from the Beach [ComputerWorld Blogs] More »

Create and Edit Docs from Your iPhone with Mobile Web Docs

2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Even with its latest slick update, Google Docs for the iPhone/iPod touch interface doesn’t allow you to create or edit documents while you’re on the go. Mobile Web Docs, a free web app, might fill that void nicely for you, especially if you don’t want to jailbreak your iPod or don’t particularly love the iPhone’s notebook. Mobile Web Docs lets you organise your text documents into folders, flip your device for landscape editing (an oft-requested feature), upload documents from elsewhere on the web, and, in a neat touch, save links to other handy web apps in a faux-Mac “Applications” folder. It’s only text documents at this point and has the occasional (unobtrusive) ad, but Mobile Web Docs is a nice way to write on the go and grab it later from your desktop. Mobile Web Docs [via Office Tweaks] More »