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Useful Email Addresses When Your Internet Connection's Down
Posted by Tamar Weinberg at 7:00 AM on February 17, 2008
If ever there's an internet outage in your geographic area, all hope is not lost. Thanks to mobile phones, you can do lots of stuff online via email, like post photos to Flickr, access your Remember the Milk task list, upload to YouTube, and more. Weblog Digital Inspiration has a full list. Got any other indispensable mobile email addresses you keep on hand when you can't surf the web? Share them in the comments.
Tags: email | flickr | internet | mobile phones | youtube
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Deprong Mori
Posted 7:45 AM 17/2/08
You mean "geographic area", not "demographic", right?
Deprong Mori
tigerhawkvok
Posted 8:40 AM 17/2/08
Its all about GMail. They have their Java phone client and you can access it on your phone's browser, too.
Oh, GMail, how I love thee ...
tigerhawkvok
Gina Trapani
Posted 8:40 AM 17/2/08
@Deprong Mori: whoops, sorry, all fixed!
Gina Trapani
infmom
Posted 9:40 AM 17/2/08
Uh huh. And if you just use your phone for making phone calls and don't want to pay extra for internet access...
infmom
Thorny
Posted 10:35 AM 17/2/08
This is why I keep my horse.
Thorny
Johnny Pneumatic
Posted 3:55 PM 17/2/08
If you text 466453 with the name of your destination, Google will text you an address and phone number.
So I guess you could send an email to 466453@teleflip.com to get stripped down access to google maps, if you somehow had email, but no texts or internet, and needed maps.
Johnny Pneumatic
rma626
Posted 7:30 AM 18/2/08
I'm a fan of 43actions.com on iPhone for keeping track of "to do" lists, etc. It doesn't require a premium account, as "Remember the Milk".
rma626
greg
Posted 3:46 AM 19/2/08
@infmom: I don't have web access on my phone either, but normal SMS messages can be e-mails. Just enter an e-mail address instead of a phone number in the "To:" line. I don't think this works for vanilla text messages, but I don't know. Likewise, you can have people e-mail your phone based on your carrier's naming conventions [LiveJournal.com]. I don't need my phone to be a laptop, but it's nice to know that the two can at least play nice.
greg