Let the Countdown Begin
In just 14 days I will have internet access from my cell phone. I can’t wait!!
Now, I realize it could get very dangerous, but wow- if I manage to stay focused, it is going to make life so much easier! And frankly, I don’t have the time to not be focused! So I’m really looking forward to this helping me in big ways.
- Task lists all available from wherever I am because they are centrally created & organized online. **
- Google Calendar - I can view my availability on the fly. (Which is especially handy for a witch like me!
) ** - Gmail - Since my main Gmail account is not the same account I have for my Google calendar, I don’t have to keep signing in-and-out incessantly between Google Accounts to get the info I want!
- POP Mail - I’ve been wanting for some time to have an email address that my clients/customers could send emergency support requests to (site down, etc), so I could provide better service being available (for real emergencies) even off-hours, without the hassle of providing my cell phone number in case they WERE to ever abuse it. (And no doubt someone eventually would. Not worth it!) So now, I can set up an email address which will come directly to my phone. Also, emails can be easily ignored and even banned if someone is misusing the privilege of instant access.
- When I want to know what’s playing at the theater and when, but am not in front of my desk, I will no longer have to go through the (sometimes torturous) phone system and wait to hear all my choices and then remember the prompt for whichever movie it is that I choose to hear about. This process really does get quite time-consuming. In 14 days I will no longer be subject.
** : If you’ve been paying much attention at all, you are aware of the fact that I have been a Palm (PDA) owner for 7 years now, and currently even a Treo which is a hybrid Palm/Cell-phone. Yet while I still really dislike Pocket PC’s and therefore the corresponding Treo alternative, I have also come to find Palm’s OS quite unusable. I had a Sony Clie for a few years, which had a super-pimped interface for the Palm OS. To my great sorrow they stopped making them, though. And now I’m stuck with an outdated, never-updated-since-it’s-been-created, Palm interface. It’s not workin’ for me. Maybe I could buy Agendus, but I’d rather not spend the money on something that should just be better in the first place. I’d rather put that money towards a service that will do a lot more as well.
So there ya have it. I got the good news yesterday, and am officially in countdown mode. YAY!