Comments on: The Remote Designer: How to Work While on the Road

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:35:12 +0000

This would only really work in extreme niches. Most businesses want to deal with their design / developer in person. By not being physically available you are pretty in the same playing field as a $10/hr guy in India. That’s heavy competition.

By: Claudio Merino

Claudio Merino — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:56:18 +0000

great advices!
I’m starting my “on the road” face in tree weeks and these tips will become very handly.

Muchas gracias!

By: Yancikdev

Yancikdev — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:54:14 +0000

I’m always on the go. When I can’t find wireless anywhere, I use my BB as a modem. It works fine for me.

By: CWD

CWD — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:35:15 +0000

I’ve always found being mobile is the best way of changing your scenery. (no sense feeling trapped in an office)

Been finding Jing to be a great program to keep customers informed and keeping employees on task when delegating from the road. (so long as you’re not overseas using bandwidth of course~!)

By: sidharth

sidharth — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:06:31 +0000

this is quite good…………

By: dannyd

dannyd — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:38:07 +0000

It’s like saying obvious things…

By: calgary

calgary — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:40:50 +0000

One of the hardest things I do is leave my client 2 times a year once for 10 days in europe ( where i can not afford the cell phone bill) And once in mexico where i just do swallow the bill. Both time cause me much panic and worry, but such is the deal of owning your own business.

By: Omar Abid

Omar Abid — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:02:29 +0000

Great article.

Back to 2007, I setup a Terminal Server Network for a company. The reason is that they want to work remotely. All data where in the company servers located in their headquarters and using Windows Server 2003, I made it possible using any internet connection to point to the main server. Each user logins using his credentials and then see his desktop; it can be slow if your internet connection is low, nevertheless it still productive (especially if you set 256 colors).
Remote Desktop for windows has a similar functionality, though it can’t run more than one instance.

By: melzor

melzor — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:39:22 +0000

My biggest concern when traveling is finding a place with WI-FI since I like to get off the mainstream beaten path. I like surf chill surf towns in Central America, but staying in budget places, they often don’t offer wireless.

This brought me to think about alternatives to access the internet: a 3G USB stick (with unlocked SIM card) like the Option Icon USB Modem or using an iPhone (but seems the latter can’t really be unlocked, therefore you end-up with a huge bill).

Anyone have neat solutions regarding this? or could suggest good products?

By: melzor

melzor — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:29:47 +0000

I was worried about getting my nice new MacBook Pro stolen from my room while surfing, trekking, etc. until I found this:

http://www.pacsafe.com/www/index.php?_room=3&_action=detail&id=119
or
http://www.pacsafe.com/www/index.php?_room=3&_action=detail&id=117