Tools & Resources
LIP Links 23.01.08
10 Hi-Tech Wristwatches That Any True Geek Could Love
Whilst I couldn’t see myself walking round the streets of Cape Town flashing many of these around on my wrist, I could certainly make use of the cell phone/PDA watches, the 1GB USB watch and the wi-fi detector watch.
Make your favourite espresso on the go
Now this is [...]
10 Hi-Tech Wristwatches That Any True Geek Could Love
Whilst I couldn’t see myself walking round the streets of Cape Town flashing many of these around on my wrist, I could certainly make use of the cell phone/PDA watches, the 1GB USB watch and the wi-fi detector watch.
Make your favourite espresso on the go
Now this is one gadget I’d really like - despite not being much of a coffee drinker (but I do love a good quality moccha!). The Handespresso Wild apparently “…prepares a tasty espresso with a perfect crema” and it’s a very, very portable-looking device too.
The ubiquitous Skellie has started a great new blog, designed to help the mobile web worker work from anywhere. Stiff competition for Location Independent Living? Absolutely but as Skellie herself says, she’s not an experienced traveller so the current focus on web working tips/being a smarter computer-user makes it a great companion for this blog and just one more resource to help others do what we do.
Absorbing Writing workshop in Sardinia
My blog pals Emma Bird from How To Italy and Joanna Young from Confident Writing have joined together (having met through blogging) to run the Absorbing Writing workshop later this year which is “a writing workshop in sun-drenched Sardinia…aimed at expats, nervous writers, business writers wanting to inject some oooph into their writing and bloggers who want to make their posts much more readable”.
12 Useful Firefox Extensions for the Location Independent Professional
Photo by nobihaya
As a location independent professional who runs your business on the ‘net and lives ‘virtually’ in the www, you must be using Firefox, right?
If you’re not, then you have no idea how much precious browsing time you’re wasting and I recommend you download the *best* browser bar none tout de suite (immediately)!!
For those [...]
Photo by nobihaya
As a location independent professional who runs your business on the ‘net and lives ‘virtually’ in the www, you must be using Firefox, right?
If you’re not, then you have no idea how much precious browsing time you’re wasting and I recommend you download the *best* browser bar none tout de suite (immediately)!!
For those of you who are, here are 12 of the most useful extensions/add-ons you can install to super-charge your location independent life….
LIP Links for 01.01.08
Get Abstract [aff]
An ideal solution to the issue of carrying heavy reference books around with you as you gad about the globe. Get Abstract provide you with compressed summaries of key business and marketing books delivered by email (in a variety of different formats). I’ve just belatedly asked Santa (aka my Dad) for a subscription [...]
Get Abstract [aff]
An ideal solution to the issue of carrying heavy reference books around with you as you gad about the globe. Get Abstract provide you with compressed summaries of key business and marketing books delivered by email (in a variety of different formats). I’ve just belatedly asked Santa (aka my Dad) for a subscription for Xmas!
For the non-English speakers amongst you (or those who, like my brother, are linguistically challenged even in his own language), this is a rather nifty tool to find out how to pronounce something you don’t know.
Forgot - or just don’t trust - your alarm clock? Then schedule a call on this site to wake you up or remind you to do something important like go to the beach for your afternoon swim! Again, only US-based at the moment.
12 Alternative Uses For Your Cell Phone As A Location Independent Professional
Illustration by Jonathan Woodward
Ah, the humble mobile phone (aka cell phone). As an early adopter of technology, I was the first one in my family to get a mobile phone when I spent about £60 ($120) on a brick from Woolworth’s at least 11 years ago. How times have changed!!!
Currently, I haven’t switched my now [...]
Illustration by Jonathan Woodward
Ah, the humble mobile phone (aka cell phone). As an early adopter of technology, I was the first one in my family to get a mobile phone when I spent about £60 ($120) on a brick from Woolworth’s at least 11 years ago. How times have changed!!!
Currently, I haven’t switched my now sleek, super slim mobile phone on for about 2 weeks but if I did, there are so many more things that I could do with it than simply call, text or play games…
Here are 12 additional things you can do with your phone whilst travelling the globe as a location independent professional… Read the rest of this entry
