The Cyber Gypsy

What happened to Toughbooks?

Dominic Reid — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:56:55 +0000

One thing that I find to be conspicuously absent from the average CyberGypsy baggage check-list is a tough book. The concept of a tough-book was always one that appealed to me. ‘Use it in the shower’ they said, ‘eat your dinner off of it’. Well to be honest my work tends to stop at the [...]

11 Things every Cyber Gypsy needs…

Dominic Reid — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:24:39 +0000

So here’s a check-list of things that I have decided will go with me around the world this winter. 1. A Crumpler laptop rucksack. My Crumpler is actually a naughty Vietnamese copy I got in, well, Vietnam. It’s lasted well but I’d recommend the original Aussie bag as mine is showing signs of zip problems. [...]

Location Independent Digitally Nomadic Cyber Gypsy Travel Checklist

Dominic Reid — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:02:50 +0000

I found Google Voice

Dominic Reid — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:02:06 +0000

OK, it’s been a bit of a mission here at CyberGypsy towers to track down where Google voice went but I did it. You need to switch on ‘US English’ instead of the queens own English and there it is. You can still only upgrade to get the real benefit of a telephone number that [...]

Google voice uk style phone booths launched

Dominic Reid — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:48:10 +0000

A number of years ago the powers that be in the UK telecoms business decided that there was no reason why another little bit of the wonderful and quirky individuality of these fair isles should be done away with, which is why our wonderful red phone boxes were uprooted and sent to the scrap heap [...]

Google Voice UK is here

Dominic Reid — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:28:07 +0000

Google voice UK has arrived – well, minus the component that makes it so attractive, which is the chance for you to have a phone number for life that can be routed to other services like your mobile or land-line. The reason I am assuming for this is because in the States they bought a [...]

Cheap flights with Ryanair

Dominic Reid — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:13:07 +0000

So tomorrow I have to go to Spain to meet a client. It’s lucky that I love flying, the hubbub of airports, the very ritual of it all. I love flying so much, that even at the moment when the plane accelerates down the runway, I have been know to pop on ‘The Ace of [...]

Why a digital nomad?

Dominic Reid — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:05:13 +0000

I have managed to achieve my dream of earning my keep whilst on the move, of carrying all I need in something that can fit into the overhead locker of an aeroplane. I’m not on the move all of the time as I love to get back to Europe for the balmy summers, where the [...]

The Internet is altering our minds

Dominic Reid — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:58:09 +0000

Apparently the internet is altering our minds. Well I hope so, I mean if we are going to evolve we had better change – but I don’t think the recent stirrings about the Shallows, a book by Nicholas Carr about the way we are getting less and less profound are too positive, Nicholas thinks that [...]

Where Next

Dominic Reid — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:50:37 +0000

So where did the whole idea that we had to travel to broaden our minds come from. We look back in history to try and find early adventurers – one of my favourites was the late great Sir Richard Burton, by no means the first person to take travel as a tonic, but certainly one [...]