Everything changes when you sharing your desktop for laptop and desktop to the hotel room.
Sometimes this is for the best: You are released from your cabin and free to go wherever your business takes you.
But sometimes things change for the worse. Productivity suffers when you're in an unfamiliar place. How laptop keyboard cramps, sometimes your hands enough to prevent you from doing a job well done.
Here are four technologies "must haves" - the mobile office, as well as tools that can improve productivity when you're away.
• the right software
Not only download the laptop or PDA applications necessary, since they are also suitable if the mobile office programs. Is a program that your e-mail to build a road or adapted from the greater use of means to a corporate network? Programs are working together on your laptop or it does not freeze when it gets busy your CPU?
And these considerations can become major problems when traveling. This is something Tab Stone, a physician in Los Angeles, and knows very well. Software installation is a new e-mail on your laptop before leaving her recent trip, but not suitable for mobile use. He had to cancel shortly before takeoff, but disabled the e-mail backup. Means that you can not download messages to your computer. "I could not repair what has been spoiled by the fresh batch copy or downloaded from the Internet," recalls Peter.
: Contact management software allows you to merge data with your PDA, you can download and synchronize contacts, appointments, and notes on your Palm Pilot or Pocket PC. There is also a copy on the internet for travelers who lose or their own laptop or prefer to work from the office to their destination.
What is the next step? Find More integration between applications for wireless users. Contact Managers are already assuming the role of the e-mail and address book database. The next step is making it more accessible to people who use mobile phones or PDAs.
• substantive law
I'm not talking about having your new laptop. I'm talking about devices that have created life on the road. Let's face it: not done, and there are many tools that enhance mobile professionals with travelers in mind. For example, a flight attendant offered useful if the battery is low mobile Joachim Martin ran on a recent flight to relax in the port "secret" to the rear of the plane. "The batteries charged," remembers a software developer. "But it was when I got home, dead." Was the power supply must be replaced. Blame the airlines, and the manufacturer of the battery or even businessmen unfortunate not to know better, but this kind of thing happens often. Plugs the phone does not always correspond, not to sockets. And a large number of tools and rely on passenger hostile, impractical or both.
Update: Some hardware manufacturers and meet passenger demand for Families with hardware additions such as the Stowaway XT keyboard. I was also impressed by the Mini optical mouse Microsoft, which frees you from the constraints of the index cramps your laptop.
What is the next step? As the convergence between mobile phones, computers and PDAs continues, it would not surprise me to see devices that offer cozy comfort for your desktop computer with the possibility of a PDA. Not come too soon for many mobile users.
• Communications Law
The contacts are all mobile office.
Remember Peter, a physician e-mail? It has finally reached its messages via the network connection is not practical. Spencer Field, who recently returned from a trip to Melbourne, also ask about the problems of e-mail. I learned that when they arrived that the number of dial-up to the owner of an Internet service provider (ISP) have failed. "I thought it was probably the end of my access to the Internet," he said. "As a result of an effort last chance, let me do my fingers on and pulling Melbourne Yellow Pages for local ISP. " Found one and signed up for an e-mail a month, which gives access to local numbers throughout its program.
It is not only the issue of Internet connections, but also to connect other devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and laptops. Technologies such as Bluetooth allows you to communicate with other devices in the office or hotel room without the need for cables.
Update: According to a recent study by AT & T, and the main obstacle to work from a remote location is access to broadband data. Fast wireless networks spread everywhere - in hotels, airport lounges and cafes. Although Bluetooth has been a slow start, and the concept behind it - which is losing son - is fundamentally sound.
What is the next step? It will not be long before Wi-Fi and cellular coverage everywhere as the majority of devices supporting Bluetooth technology. This is good news for those of us who work in the mobile office.
• Web applications right
Web applications are extremely important for mobile office, I decided to give them their own category, even though they technically belong to the "programs". Internet is one of the most effective ways for mobile workers access to back-office system, intranet or database.
My ISP provides a rudimentary application that allows me to check my e-mail from the Web. I do not remember how many times I've had to use it because of the failure of the program my email is working properly. But I remember the last time. Suspended in a meeting outside the city and e-mail account was attacked my junk mail - thousands of spam - which would have taken hours to download. Instead, I am connected to the Internet and delete all in a few seconds. If it was not for the web application, and I would be more likely to download spam.
Update: One of the most innovative Web applications is GoToMyPC, which gives you access to the desktop in your home or office through the Internet. Another useful application for mobile users are conference services on the network, such as Microsoft Office LiveMeeting.
What is the next step? Expect these applications become cheaper and more reliable and sophisticated.
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