Jan 30, 2008
Written By Lea Woodward
Airline meals
The only site dedicated to nothing but airline meals! It’s a sort of web 2.0 community site where you can browse current airline menus, find out how they’re prepared and view fellow traveller’s photos of their recent meals.
Take websites with you
A handy tool from Google which adapts any website on the net and makes it suitable for viewing on your mobile cellphone. Bookmark the site on your PDA, cellphone, iPhone or whatever and you’ll also get the option to view sites without bandwidth-intensive images.
MoDazzle
Use online services such as Facebook, Salesforce, LinkedIn and others on your cellphone, if you can’t bear to be parted from them for a few hours.
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Jan 16, 2008
Written By Lea Woodward
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….
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Jan 15, 2008
Written By Lea Woodward
Top 100 Travel Websites
This is the Time’s Online list of travel sites that includes the following site categories:
- Inside Information
- Flight Essentials
- Hot Places To Stay
- Top Value Rooms
- Best For Inspiration
- Best For Holiday Bargains
- Travel Essentials
- Road, Rail, Ferry, Cruise
- Specialist Travel
- Travel 2.0
30 Places To Find Cheap Airline Tickets
Travelhacker’s list of resources to help you scour the virtual skies for the best deals.
Beam It Up Scotty
A nifty site that lets you upload most types of file (pictures, music, videos and docs) to your cellphone. I can see this being quite useful to store copies of your e-tickets, insurance docs etc. for handy reference without having to get your laptop out all the time.
Jan 9, 2008
Written By Lea Woodward
Photo by Naomi Ibuki
One of the recurring themes in the comments around here is the fact that so many of you are struggling to decide which books to take and which books to leave.
My advice? Don’t do what I did the first time round and lug a hulking great business/marketing manual around (all 2kg of it) thinking that it’d be great to have as reference material but never using it once (and that was alongside a number of other books too).
Since that first, ill-fated packing experience when we ended up fed-exing a 12kg box of our stuff (including that book) back to the UK at great expense, we’ve got packing light down to a fine art.
This time round we’re carrying less than 30kg between us in one small suitcase (weight = 17kg) and our laptop backpacks for the next 3 months.
Want to know what’s in it? Here’s a summary of how we travel light…
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