It's been funny - the whole change in my gadget setup from the last few months. I took a fancy to those laptop ads on a TV where a funky haired guy sits in a beach and laptops his way to work. I was obsessed about buying a light laptop, the lightest in fact, which I would connect through wireless connectivity from anywhere at home and work from that. It could be from the terrace staring at the moon and stars, or lying down on a heap of pillows with the laptop on me. Yeah, all this worked and how! Until I found this new piece of software (mobipocket) that gets installed on my mobile and does practically everything. Now my whole paradigm of working has changed. I use only my mobile to read news in the morning (downloaded as RSS feeds from the news site)- my family is very happy about this because we don't fight for the early morning newspaper anymore, read the latest technology, business and Scientific American latest posts on it. I also religiously download the technical documents I need to review as part of work - functional specs, technical specs, SOW, contracts ....what not in a mobile optimized format right on my mobile. I review these documents at night with reading lamps off, without disturing anyone....man, what a change! As you have guessed it, I also download fiction, non-fiction works for reading and I can read a whole book at night without switching on reading lamps and being a nuisance to others.
Mobile-ing of documents, mobile-ing of news, mobile-ing RSS aggregation has changed my life.
My wish list would be like this:
- Single Sign On from my mobile to a range of sites, to VPN of my office network
- A more reliable VoIP calling service that I can use for conference calls across the globe (my OS is Symbian and Skype yet doesn't work as expected although Google's gdskype? has something similar)
- Email profiles automatically maintained from my email provider. For.e.g. I want only certain emails to be delivered or I want all emails that meet a criteria to be made color=RED on server side, desktop-client side and mobile
- User profiling and 'My Documents' implemented for 'Me' across any device. For e.g. if a global SAN is maintained for me as an user with my documents (just like email - could be presonal, work, music etc) then I can access 'My Documents' from anywhere via any protocol.
- LDAP - Global address book with appropriate rules for categories and grouping rules
- Imaging or something like imaging. For e.g., if I'm at SFO airport trying to access my mails and documents, can my 'image' of my folder structure, my documents, my profile be automatically configured on the go so that I can work on my environment even from airport terminal.
- Hack proof methods
WDYT?
Sunday, September 10, 2006
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