Have Laptop Will Travel

5 Ways To Exercise While Out On Work Assignments

If you’re one of those people that end up traveling for work a lot, you’ve probably discovered that it can be extremely difficult to keep a consistent workout and exercise schedule intact. However, for those of you that are truly motivated, it shouldn’t require more than a little bit of creativity to get you through those lulls when work requires you to be out traveling.

Five ways in particular that you can depend on, also considering if you’re more in urban or suburban areas, include attending spin classes, working through home exercise routines, jogging around the neighborhoods, hitting the closest gyms, or creatively using the environment you’re staying in. [Read more…]

Location Independent Professionals

working from home

Well, without a doubt, working from home has much more pros than cons; apart from the obvious, such as there may be more distractions at home than your work place, there is much more to gain. First off, by working at home, you can spend less as there are no transportation costs to and from work. Working at home provides you with a personal and comfortable environment that suits you and caters to your every need hence making you happy. The end result: usually higher productivity.

Working from home gives one an open field of opportunities and also helps with time management. Recent studies done by travel companies indicate that there is more business from clients who work from home. This is most likely due to the fact that all they need is access to the internet and a laptop. Not only does this give them the advantage of making money while touring but also the experience of traveling in a different and unique way; since you don’t have to worry about spending your savings. Employees who work from home are less stressed as they avoid rush hour when traffic is usually bumper to bumper and also, there is no exposure to unfriendly coworkers. [Read more…]

Time Travel to the Oldest Universities of the World

This is the real educational tour plus time travel—visiting the oldest universities of the world. There is no smarter way to traveling with your laptop than visiting the prestigious universities that started all the gems of learning.

University of Bologna. It is the first university to use the word “university” during its foundation. No wonder why it’s also the oldest university in the world. The establishment itself is an interesting piece of artifact. So walking around the university is already an exciting time travel.

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GeckoGo.com Review

Travel sites are, frankly dime a dozen on the internet. From sleek, but faceless big corporate types to gonzo-style efforts that, frankly, sometimes look a little dodgy to medium-scale operations that straddle the divide between bigtime corporate and start-up—all of these are what you find when you surf the net.

A few days ago, someone emailed me and asked me to check out geckogo.com. As a somewhat jaded blogger and net surfer, I was thinking that this was going to be some uninspired clone of Travelocity—a site that only offers a convenient way of booking your flights and take advantage of discounts in package tours.

Boy, was I wrong.

GeckoGo-Hotel and Travel Guide is a relatively refreshing way of looking at travel. According to the site, GeckoGo is a “collaborative travel planning resource for independent travelers”. They’ve really got the description down pat, what the website is, is a wonderful series of resources on different places and countries as “reported” by travelers who have actually been there. The site caters to travelers who eschew the package tours and established itineraries that are commonly visited by the everyday, unimaginative tourist. This site is for those who want to wander off the beaten path.
Although you get the usual travel book descriptions of each country in the site, the real gem here are the personal accounts of travelers. You get tips on travel essentials for each country, what to expect, the places to see and even different accommodations in the country. The tips alone are worth checking out as I have always maintained that you can never get enough information about a country. For all you know that one tip can actually save you a lot of trouble. The hotels and accommodations cited in GeckoGo are also rated so it’s a great way of checking out which ones will offer good value for money and which ones are just plain crap and not worth a penny.

GeckoGo also offers a small community answering forum that is similar to Yahoo! Answers. Basically, a visitor can ask a question that can be answered by other people. Again, this is a convenient and highly useful feature that really brings up the value of the web site. I have a quibble about the site in terms of its technical aspects though. When I used Mozilla Firefox, I kept getting this error every time I go to a new page. It was a minor thing but at some point it was starting to get annoying.

Although the fundamentals of this site are quite solid, I have to say that it does suffer from the relatively low number of visitors. There just aren’t enough reviews at the moment for the more exotic countries in Europe, and most especially in Asia. But this is a small criticism for an overall very promising travel site. I’m pretty sure that with a more aggressive marketing effort, GeckoGo will attract that magic number of visitors that will bulk up the valuable information that it offers to non-traditional travelers.

HP Envy, Reviewed

Engadget has a great review of HP’S 13-inch Envy laptop out, and I’m here to digest the review and present the most important parts for you guys. It’s been called a Macbook Pro clone, and from the looks alone, it really does deserve the title. It has an aluminum body, chiclet keys, even a buttonless trackpad. But how does it stack up to Apple’s premiere notebook?

Hardware-wise, it’s already supposed to be an ok notebook. Just look at the specs: Intel Core™ 2 Duo processor, ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4330, and a 13-inch screen with a 1600 x 900 resolution. The “Beats”-branded speakers actually sound slightly better than in other netbooks as well. However, there is a bit of a drawback: the buttonless trackpad, obviously patterned after the Macbook’s trackpad, is a little, well, clunky. And of course what kind computer manufacturer would not install any crap and bloatware on a Windows 7 install, rendering the usually-snappy OS to slow down? HP does just that, true to form. [Read more…]