Holidays always make me think about packing online media. It's a time to copy across working files, email, and new music to the laptop.
I have become a bit of a fan of services which store data and make it accessible through a browser.
- Google for email and calendar
- del.icio.us for bookmarks
- Bloglines for blog reading
At home I can switch between desktop machines and mobile devices both at home and work and know that I will have access as long as I have a browser with an internet connection.
Packing for holiday means that I might have to manage without. How can I prepare my windows mobile phone for the prospect of only having an intermittent connection?
In theory Google Mail now has imap, a mail protocol designed with exactly this sort of scenario - keeping folders and emails on a sever in sync with an intermittently connected client. Unfortunately window mobile mail client isn't quite up to the job, and deals with imap slowly with timeouts. Fortunately WebIS have FlexMail 2007 which does the trick nicely.
For blog reading I am using Egress by Karl Hessinger (GarishKernels). This picks up my subscription list and unread items from Bloglines.
I've brought over calendar information using OggSync. And I am currently typing this using a commercial blog service Typepad, because of it's nice offline mobile client.
And for some reassurance that the PCs at home and work will still work when we return, some backups were needed. Carbon Copy clones the complete Mac hard disk, and Cobain Backup to selectively backup the important bits on each of the windows boxes.
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