Fine folks at Travelpost have put together a nice guide to Wireless broadband in airports and hotels across the world.
These are fairly detailed guides, and include information about fees and coverage areas, going beyond the usual “yes, they have it” or “no they don’t.” These links are worth bookmarking, and can be quite helpful if you are traveling and looking to do some work on the go. They can also be quite handy is you are planning just check your Gmail to break up long siesta on the beach.
Or do they? Can Apple deliver a combo iPod and cell phone that works well as both a phone and a music player? The first ever iTunes phone, the Motorola ROKR, disappointed with its limited music storage and weak performance as a phone. Analysts predict that Apple will take a 37Signals “less is better” approach, eschewing broad smart phone capabilities and making the iPhone Nano-like with a simple but powerful set of phone and music features.
What if you want a music phone with smart phone brains? The Sony Ericsson W950i Walkman phone looks pretty nice, and it ought to be at the price–around $700 in the U.S. It runs Symbian, the mobile-only operating system found on many smart phones, and it includes 4GB of flash memory, enough to store almost anyone’s music library enough to store some people’s entire music libraries.
Since we’re about to be treated to a series on smart phones, it’s an ideal time to be thinking about what you might want out of a new phone, if you happen to be in the market for one.
What are you looking for in a mobile phone? Do you want it to play music? Are you waiting for the iPhone?
Pierre Khawand perhaps is one of the few people who has tried more smart phones that me. In fact, he tried them straight for 81 days. So he knows a thing or two about smart phones, and he is writing a special series for us and will help us pick out the best smart phone… Om
By Pierre Khawand
Call it insanity or naivety, for the last 81 days, I have switched to a new smartphone every 9 days–ranging from the latest Treos, to the latest BlackBerries, to the latest Windows Mobile devices, and one of the latest Symbian devices. It sounds as if I am on a search for the perfect smartphone or that I like torturing myself by calling technical support centers around the globe trying to get their help synchronizing my computer with different devices.
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Can listening to music while you work make you more productive? Could it make you smarter, or at least look that way? It depends. It depends on your personality, your energy level, the kind of music you’re listening to, the projects you’re doing, and your music-listening habits.
Online services like Last.fm and Pandora suggest songs based on artists, songs, and styles you say you like, on your listening patterns, and on what your friends or people similar to you like and listen to. But those services don’t do any industrial engineering of the web worker mind, observing your work habits and how they interact with your music listening, then playing music designed to help you work better, faster, smarter. If you want that kind of personalization, you’ll have to do it yourself.
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What exactly does it mean to be a web worker? I suppose we could make a Web Worker Quiz with items like “you have a T-Mobile HotSpot account,” or “you live in Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Calendar.” We could assign you a rating of your web workerness, make a little badge for you to put on your website. But that wouldn’t capture the spirit of Web Worker Daily. We’re about seeking work satisfaction, making human connections, and being willing to do things in a different way than they were done before.
Where does the Web come in? As a tool that supports all of those activities, not as an end in itself, and as part of a social revolution that makes it possible now more than ever to define work the way you want to. While you’ll find plenty of reviews of the gear and sites that make your online life more productive and fun, WWD aims beyond your flying fingertips to your heart and soul.
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With so many instant messaging applications out there, which has the highest WebWorkerDaily user rating. Is there just one winner? Or do web workers prefer to use a few different ones throughout the day? Do you use aggregators like Adium or Trillian? Or are you like us – addicted to the relative simplicity of Google Talk, its bare bones options, and lack of funny icons. Have your say! What IM, or IM’s do you prefer to use throughout the day to get your job done? Or maybe you just find them to be a nuisance?
Todoz is a packed online data management system that is filled with tools that could be beneficial for businesses to get organized, share, and collaborate information. It is a potpurri of features ranging from one extreme – online scheduling – to the other such as file storage and sharing, content management and even email.
Todoz is new entrant in a relatively crowded marketplace, dominated by the likes of 37Signals, Zoho Office, and Google. On various features it competes with dozens of little companies. We are trying out their free 30 day trial.
The sheer number of features is overwhelming, though one wonders if they are really trying to justify their $29.95 a month (for five users) price point. There are other more expensive plans that the company offers.
Despite the nice feature set, and clean interface, one has to point out that some of the more popular and successful online applications have stuck to doing a few things really well. We will update the review later, but we should point out that we are big fans of Basecamp and the whole range of 37 Signals setup, Google Calendar and Docs.
For online storage and sharing, the free Xdrive works best for us. It is simple, clean and effective. We are not quite sure, if we want to jettison our favorites for the Todoz application suite just yet.
Check out a screenshot from the Todoz after the jump…
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As web workers, we have access to many online to do list managers like 
Web Work 101: How To Escape The Cubicle
