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Available for direct phone assistance in laptop usage for business and travel

Laptop usage—learn how to become a power user!

 

 

We can show you (over the phone) how to get up to speed with…

                

Computer use

                 Get the best possible hardware

                 email to many addresses without showing your full mailing list

                 find the best free and commercial programs

                 use computers to get the best deals on all sorts of purchases

                 best keep your computer safe from viruses, malware, adware etc.

                 make your own e-book

                 create pdf files for your website or for download

                 have a full multimedia setup on your computer: hifi, TV, dvd, etc.

                 have a photo gallery of your own on the web

                 best manipulate your photos on your computer for printing or web use

                 use Paypal to send and receive money

                 how to use Goldmoney to do the same

                 Fix your computer if it crashes

                 Backup the computer (using a disk image, the best way)

 

Website Creation

                 save money creating your own web site

                 get your own domain, and check if a domain is taken

                 Make your email link to your domain, so it’s completely portable (this also allows you to access it via webmail via a website your ISP has set up)

                 find a cheap and efficient hosting service for your website; Set up your own server

                 add bells and whistles to your website

                 add shopping cart, forms, chat programs, etc.

                 Have free art and photo galleries on the web

                 advertise and promote your website

                 how to update your website whenever you want

                 upload information to your own site on the web

                 have streaming video and audio on your website

                 translate anything for free

                

Travel

                 Get internet telephony for free to speak to anyone in the world

                 Travel with a laptop computer and connect up anywhere

                 Set up faxing (in and out) on your computer so you don’t need to use commercial services

                 Use the internet to backup your files

                 Use the internet to keep secure data while travelling

                 Use the internet while travelling to get the best deals

                 Interfacing mobile phones (cellphones)  with your laptop

                                  Have a mobile phone available overseas and pay only for your calls

                 Have your calls forwarded for almost nothing to a mobile phone

                 Get remote access to your home computer while traveling

                 Use the web to find all the travel information you need, locate the hotels and other services you want, and find the best deals, and call them immediately on Skype for reservations. Make those travel agents obsolete! Never carry a heavy guidebook again!

                

 

Money & Business

                 Investments via the internet

                 Ride the commodities bull market into the 2nd phase

                 Trade futures and stocks

                 Trade futures and stocks and shares on web platforms as you travel from place to place – make money as you travel. This is the holy grail in my opinion, and I’ve discovered how to make it work.

                 How to set up internet banking;

                 How to use Paypal; or credit card setups;

                 Use a debit card which is also a credit card, (forget travellers’ cheques);

                 Possible businesses while travelling

                 Website with local products for sale; eg leather in Ecuador, hammocks in Mexico, etc.

                 Run conferences with and without video for business or friends in real time.

                 Set up a Calendar and contacts system for note-taking and reminders as you run your business

 

 

Entertainment and your laptop

                 Interface with your digital camera to immediately edit, upload, and publish on the web your digital photos and videos. Find out how to have your own ‘server’ for your photos, your websites, your business, and anything else you produce—have photo galleries and slideshows on the web. The possibilities of earning money from travel photos.

                 Watch movies on your computer’s DVD drive.

                 Set up your computer system as a hi-fi system.

                 Set up your computer system and your jukebox and your digital camera  as a tape recorder.

                 Don’t get a separate recorder, it’s all there already

                 iRiver jukebox has the capability which covers backup, video, pix, recording, and jukebox, and it serves as a hard drive

                 Interface your mini-jukebox (iPod, iRiver, etc.) to your computer, to capture all the sound files (music, spoken, interviews, etc.) you want to listen to later. Find out how to use your computer to charge your jukebox and do away with the battery problem.

                 Link together your digital camera and jukebox battery system to optimise the power situation for your various devices.

                 Write your travel memoirs and articles, as you go.

 

 

I will also cover the following, and more, with phone assistance and in the coming ebook:

* More case studies of people actually working and travelling with their laptops.

* How to set up skype on your computer, step by step.

* The laptop computer as a money-saving device when you travel with it – we’ll look at the economics of it all. You can save a lot of money if you travel with a computer, in costs of phoning, books, entertainment, etc.

* What to watch out for in terms of the best hardware to buy to optimise your travel experience. All the equipment you need to take with you in detail.

* Laptop security

* Data security

* All the best software you need to keep the computer running best

Don’t use Acrobat, use Foxit Software, much cheaper, better and faster

* The sorts of businesses or jobs that are good candidates for travel.

* List of websites which are useful

* All the objections to taking a laptop with you - listed and dealt with one by one.

* Travel Insurance

                 Covers all your equipment, incl. laptop, jukebox, etc.

* Warranties

* What you can do with internet café computers, and what you just can’t do.

* Different ways to upload your photos and videos – using commercial online services or your own ‘server’.

* Using Skype to send files, to chat, and to conference.

* Keeping information you find on the web for later perusal offline.

* The best websites online for the savvy traveller.

* Downloading  interviews and other mp3 and video files for later viewing.

* Compacting and reducing the size of files.

* A full collection of travel tips, fully updated, as they relate to computing and travel.

* How to get the real information on deals for hotels and travel by entering searches in local languages to sidestep the big commercial English search engines which only find the expensive services

* Tax and corporate information

* Become a Perpetual Traveller? Be a resident of no place. …Be untaxable.

 

 

… and much more
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