Comments on: Taking your office with you http://applestooranges.com/blog/post/taking-your-office-with-you/ Writing about design, the user experience, web technologies, and the latest happenings on our online world. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:56:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Denis http://applestooranges.com/blog/post/taking-your-office-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Denis Thu, 18 May 2006 06:13:11 +0000 http://www.applestooranges.com/blog/taking-your-office-with-you/#comment-42 <p>This is the list of apps that I have been searching for. Thanks for the post !</p> This is the list of apps that I have been searching for. Thanks for the post !

]]> By: smarcus http://applestooranges.com/blog/post/taking-your-office-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-41 smarcus Thu, 18 May 2006 06:12:49 +0000 http://www.applestooranges.com/blog/taking-your-office-with-you/#comment-41 <p>lots of calendars, foto places, maps, mashups, desktops. ajax, java, ruby,etc. Wheres it all going? Is it easier or just different? Are we bored and need change? How about an email where you can change your name instantly without changing the @ghot.com. Today at 8 I am glennhel@ghot.com for sending a letter to my landlord but an hour later to invite a friend to a party i could be glenniteman or buzzly@ghot.com . or i could become richard newman @ghot.com to send comments to a page where i dont want to be found. All letters go out of my same box and come in the same. Why is email address considered unchangable while we change desktop, blog, fotoplace and tel numbers, addresses, age? sex?</p> lots of calendars, foto places, maps, mashups, desktops. ajax, java, ruby,etc. Wheres it all going? Is it easier or just different? Are we bored and need change? How about an email where you can change your name instantly without changing the @ghot.com. Today at 8 I am glennhel@ghot.com for sending a letter to my landlord but an hour later to invite a friend to a party i could be glenniteman or buzzly@ghot.com . or i could become richard newman @ghot.com to send comments to a page where i dont want to be found. All letters go out of my same box and come in the same. Why is email address considered unchangable while we change desktop, blog, fotoplace and tel numbers, addresses, age? sex?

]]> By: Axel http://applestooranges.com/blog/post/taking-your-office-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Axel Thu, 18 May 2006 06:12:31 +0000 http://www.applestooranges.com/blog/taking-your-office-with-you/#comment-40 <p>Why don´t you set up a VPN connection to your desktop computer. You can acces your PC worldwide with all your own apps, images desktop etc. It´s just a hint! You can acces all your digital data from all over the world. Just go to an internet cafee of a pc at your office and login to your own house, it´s that easy!</p> Why don´t you set up a VPN connection to your desktop computer. You can acces your PC worldwide with all your own apps, images desktop etc. It´s just a hint! You can acces all your digital data from all over the world. Just go to an internet cafee of a pc at your office and login to your own house, it´s that easy!

]]> By: ryan http://applestooranges.com/blog/post/taking-your-office-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-39 ryan Thu, 18 May 2006 06:12:02 +0000 http://www.applestooranges.com/blog/taking-your-office-with-you/#comment-39 <p>Taylor - Done!</p> <p>Johnny - Yeah, that is what I'm using now. It's still a limited solution. It's a bit slow, and it locks up the computer in question. Also some places (like some coffee shops) block the ports it uses :(</p> <p>Aaron - haha nice. I forgot where I put my 10 DVD pack to reinstall VS.</p> Taylor - Done!

Johnny - Yeah, that is what I’m using now. It’s still a limited solution. It’s a bit slow, and it locks up the computer in question. Also some places (like some coffee shops) block the ports it uses :(

Aaron - haha nice. I forgot where I put my 10 DVD pack to reinstall VS.

]]> By: inoodle http://applestooranges.com/blog/post/taking-your-office-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-38 inoodle Thu, 18 May 2006 06:11:37 +0000 http://www.applestooranges.com/blog/taking-your-office-with-you/#comment-38 <p>Hey Ryan, Great list. Someone mentioned backups being a problem - I use an online backup company now - to deal with the major things related to code and business. Then I've got flickr pro to store all those gigs of photos. All I really need now is a way to store my 40GB music collection - it would be nice to have that safe somewhere. My hard drive would then only need to be about 30GB (20GB for visual studio ;)</p> <p>Aaron.</p> Hey Ryan, Great list. Someone mentioned backups being a problem - I use an online backup company now - to deal with the major things related to code and business. Then I’ve got flickr pro to store all those gigs of photos. All I really need now is a way to store my 40GB music collection - it would be nice to have that safe somewhere. My hard drive would then only need to be about 30GB (20GB for visual studio ;)

Aaron.

]]> By: Damian http://applestooranges.com/blog/post/taking-your-office-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Damian Thu, 18 May 2006 06:11:14 +0000 http://www.applestooranges.com/blog/taking-your-office-with-you/#comment-37 <p>One tool that we love is subethaedit. This is a great product that is really simple for editing files together, including code.</p> <p>Check it out http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/</p> One tool that we love is subethaedit. This is a great product that is really simple for editing files together, including code.

Check it out http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/

]]> By: Johnny http://applestooranges.com/blog/post/taking-your-office-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Johnny Thu, 18 May 2006 06:10:52 +0000 http://www.applestooranges.com/blog/taking-your-office-with-you/#comment-36 <p>RE: #7 isn't that what remote desktop is already doing?</p> RE: #7 isn’t that what remote desktop is already doing?

]]> By: Taylor http://applestooranges.com/blog/post/taking-your-office-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Taylor Thu, 18 May 2006 06:10:34 +0000 http://www.applestooranges.com/blog/taking-your-office-with-you/#comment-35 <p>This is a great summary of some excellent tools, thanks for putting this list together!</p> <p>To the VOIP category, I'd be sure to add Gizmo, a Skype competitor with a focus on open standards, and other features like recording calls (great for podcasting) and free voicemail.</p> <p>www.gizmoproject.com</p> <p>It has gotten quite a bit of press lately, including this article at Wired: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/start.html?pg=3</p> This is a great summary of some excellent tools, thanks for putting this list together!

To the VOIP category, I’d be sure to add Gizmo, a Skype competitor with a focus on open standards, and other features like recording calls (great for podcasting) and free voicemail.

http://www.gizmoproject.com

It has gotten quite a bit of press lately, including this article at Wired: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/start.html?pg=3

]]> By: ryan http://applestooranges.com/blog/post/taking-your-office-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-34 ryan Thu, 18 May 2006 06:10:06 +0000 http://www.applestooranges.com/blog/taking-your-office-with-you/#comment-34 <p>I love the idea of IMAP. However I tried using IMAP again recently but I found it 'slow'. It was difficult to wait every single time you click on a folder. Is it the same for you and it's just something you learn to live with?</p> <p>I just gave up and went with the instant response of POP.</p> I love the idea of IMAP. However I tried using IMAP again recently but I found it ’slow’. It was difficult to wait every single time you click on a folder. Is it the same for you and it’s just something you learn to live with?

I just gave up and went with the instant response of POP.

]]> By: Kevin Cannon http://applestooranges.com/blog/post/taking-your-office-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Kevin Cannon Thu, 18 May 2006 06:09:47 +0000 http://www.applestooranges.com/blog/taking-your-office-with-you/#comment-33 <p>Maybe it's assumed email can go everywhere with you these days because of gmail and the like. But i'm old fashioned, I like accessing mail from a client and because of that love IMAP.</p> <p>It's like POP accounts, only all the messages are stored online, and organised in folders etc...</p> <p>I can access my own domain, my old college account from home & work with Thunderbird. And when I'm on the move I can access them via a nice webmail interface. It's the business.</p> <p>I'm not sure why it's not the default for all commercial mail accounts. It's too good not to use.</p> <p>Also, while we're on that route, you shoud check out Portableapps too, while you're waiting for all applications ot be web based: http://portableapps.com/</p> Maybe it’s assumed email can go everywhere with you these days because of gmail and the like. But i’m old fashioned, I like accessing mail from a client and because of that love IMAP.

It’s like POP accounts, only all the messages are stored online, and organised in folders etc…

I can access my own domain, my old college account from home & work with Thunderbird. And when I’m on the move I can access them via a nice webmail interface. It’s the business.

I’m not sure why it’s not the default for all commercial mail accounts. It’s too good not to use.

Also, while we’re on that route, you shoud check out Portableapps too, while you’re waiting for all applications ot be web based: http://portableapps.com/

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