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Connecting to the Internet When There's No Cafe in Sight—GPRS
This is the first in a series of blogs on alternative ways to connect to the internet. This blog covers GPRS is and how it works. Please visit back for the continuing series.
As nu nomads, we are often looking for ways to connect to the internet to communicate with clients, collaborate with colleagues, or simply to get information. Usually this is as simple as finding a dwelling with internet capability or walking down to the local internet café. But for those of us who like the more remote parts of the globe or the quaint life of a smaller town, connecting to the internet can be a real challenge. However, there is still hope for the determined individual. It takes a basic knowledge of the options and some pre-planning on the home-front to be sure you have the right equipment.
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Placing a Call in the Nomadic World: International Mobile Phones, Internet and Everything in Between
When you start to venture beyond the borders of your home country, understanding
how to maintain the use of a mobile phone without going broke can be difficult.
In addition, some of the newest alternatives can allow you to speak with
others without any phone at all. What are the choices and ramifications of
each choice? The many variations can be mind boggling.
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Watching Your Back (Backing-up Your Computer Files)
NuNo asked Tablet PC expert and fellow road-warrior
Jeff Van West what he thought about backups. His advice, within Watching
Your Back may, one day, save you a lot of grief.
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Connecting to the Internet
These days we have many ways to connect to the Internet.
Through a standard telephone line "dial-up" account, via a high-speed
cable service at home or office (such as cable, DSL, ADSL, or satellite),
the "Hot-Spot" (wireless) connection points widely available in
big cities (Starbucks, libraries, airports, shopping malls), or through the
use of your mobile/cell phone. Therefore you, the Laptop Hobo, needs to have
all of these at your disposal because you never know when you'll be Internet
Stranded.
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