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Cell/Mobile Phone Basics for Travelers Part 3: Beyond the Mobile Phone

In this last post on cell/mobile basics let’s look at choices for those of you wanting alternatives to mobile phone communication while you galavant around the globe. Return Call Service (also called Call Back Service) offers an alternative way for international travelers using mobile phones to avoid the high international rates for outgoing calls on [...]

Meet the Nomads – Vern and Jeff Hobo Film Makers

Vern and Jeff of the Hobo Soul discuss film making while living nomadically in LA

Cell/Mobile Phone Basics for Travelers Part 2 – Why GSM?

If you read my first entry on mobile phone basics you may remember we left with tips on purchasing a mobile phone for international travel. They were as follows: – ask for a GSM phone – ask if the phone is locked. If so, how can it be unlocked? – ask what frequency the phone [...]

Meet the Nomads – Interview with Lynne Hornyak Nomadic Executive Coach

This is the first in a series of interviews with real NuNomads who are maintaining their income as they travel the world. For those of you wondering, “Who lives this kind of life?”, or “How do they possibly do it?”, we think you’ll find some answers and inspiration from the people actually making it happen. [...]

Cell/Mobile Phone Basics for Travelers

When you’re planning to work and travel internationally a telephone will probably be one of your essential pieces of equipment. Experienced nomads not only use their mobile phones for voice communication but often as the interface between their laptop and that country’s dial up internet service (if supported by Bluetooth). Most of us are used [...]

NuNomad “Cover Story” of Business Week Online!

We are proud to announce the appearance of NuNomad and Laptop Hobo as the “cover story” of today’s small business section of Business Week online! The story by Karen E. Klein, features interviews with NuNomad/LaptopHobo founders Richard Hamel and Carmen Bolanos as well as our forum member, Greg Moulinet and his wife, Yoko, NuNomads and [...]

Need Laptop Repair on the Road?

So – you’re in Timbuktu, busily working on your latest project with your laptop when trouble hits. Your laptop is behaving like it’s about to go up in smoke at any minute. What do you do? You’re thousands of miles away from the nearest Geek Squad and you don’t know how to express what’s happening [...]

Laptop Review – Size Matters

Our latest review of laptops reveals that manufacturers are more than a little schizophrenic—but in a good way. They now offer lighter machines that offer either a larger screen size (up to 19”!) or, 9” screens. Both trends will appeal to (if not actually benefit) the nomadic worker. Interestingly, our recent Laptop Review (comprised of [...]

Hey Nomad – Tell Us What You Need

Ricardo and I are serious about making NuNomad an active and vital part of your life as a working traveler. To that end, we could use some feedback about what your issues are when you’re out in the world. What would you like to see on NuNomad? What information would be useful? What kind of [...]

Laptopping through Sri Lanka

Finding India too chaotic or Nepal a bit rural as a working-traveler destination? Perhaps you’ll appreciate the middle-ground of Sri Lanka. The Internet is no longer an esoteric technology on this island nation of nearly twenty million (though broadband is still limited to only the largest of cities such as Kandy, Negombo and in and [...]