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Summary: Writing isn't just sitting at a desk waiting for the news to happen. It often requires a prepared bag of kit for travel to report at the source. Here's what Zack Whittaker keeps in his on-the-go bag.

Zack Whittaker

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Microsoft Office 2011 (Mac)

It's far from an ideal solution considering it crashes at least once a day, but it's still the best service for me. I run an Office 365 (Exchange 2010) cloud email solution (see later). While my Mac's in-built email program, Mail, is compatible with Exchange it doesn't support the full range of Exchange features. 

Again, it's down to what you know best. There are other email programs and solutions out there, but I've always trusted Microsoft software -- even when it's on a Mac -- and with my decade-long experience of using Windows, a Microsoft-powered solution is what I know best and I'm not one to make radical changes to my workflow. 

Sometimes it's a matter of taste and nothing more.

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  • May I have your pounds

    Please? You look like you don't want them having them scatted around like that.
    adacosta38
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  • I believe your MacBook Air model qualifies but I could be mistaken, however

    now that Mountain Lion is available - and one of the enhancements to ML is AirPlay - I was wondering two things.

    1. Have you updated to ML?
    2. If you have, and IF that model is compatible with MacBook Air video transmissions to an HDTV set via AirPlay .. will you include that little "hockey puck" of an Apple hobby device called Apple TV in your travel bag, Zack?

    The reason I ask is it might come in handy to show a group of people "something" that is on your computer on a handy large screen HDTV set. With AirPlay and a WiFi source, that would be possible if you had that little "hockey puck" along with you.

    BTW, if you needed a local WiFi signal and a mobile file storage device "all in one", than the Seagate GoFlex Satellite mobile HD (500 GB) + WiFi transmitter is a device that I would recommend highly.

    You never know when you might have time to relax and watch a digital movie or two stored on that device or listen to a musical song from a VERY large mobile song library residing on that Seagate unit.

    Just a suggestion, Road Warrior.
    kenosha77a
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    • PS - OS X 10.8 ML has a feature called "Power Nap".

      Power Nap should work on your MBA, Zack, because of it's SSD. Power Nap should give you some extra minutes of battery power per charge.
      kenosha77a
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  • Website

    First you should have the next button both at the top and bottom of each page so we don't have to scroll up OR you could just put it all on a single page - God forbid we should not have to wait for all the ad's to load every time we go to the next item.

    just pretend the user is trying to get some content out of the piece.
    bobc47@...
    Reply 2 Votes

  • Nameless pieces of kit

    "It uses a fraction of the data than other conventional RSS aggregators...It costs less than $5...it's only a couple of clicks away..." Wonderful! Mind telling us what "it" is? I tried opening the image in a new window to see its file name, but Googling for "q-reeder" didn't help me at all.
    JohnQCooper
    Reply 1 Vote

    • Seriously

      C'mon, I'm serious. I want to know what the program you intended to recommend in Image 20 is.
      JohnQCooper
      Reply 1 Vote

  • gee

    How to go on a trip for dummies book coming to a book store near you.
    sarai1313@...
    Reply 1 Vote

  • Nameless piece of kit

    What JohnQCooper said. :-)
    sckenney@...
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  • Nameless piece of kit

    Yes, WHAT IS THE PROGRAM?
    CSF111
    Reply 1 Vote

    • Apologies, all: Let me explain

      Behind the scenes, we have a "Subtitle" box and a "Copy" box. I entered the name of the program -- which is called "Reeder" (for Mac, iOS) by the way -- but obviously it didn't show up. Sorry, all!
      zwhittaker
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