{"id":428,"date":"2007-08-09T22:20:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T08:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/09\/mobile-tech-while-immobile\/"},"modified":"2007-08-09T22:20:53","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T08:20:53","slug":"mobile-tech-while-immobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/09\/mobile-tech-while-immobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Tech While Immobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I called in sick today after not getting much sleep (something I ate disagreed with me or I have a mild virus of some kind). I had hoped it would clear up in a couple of hours so I could either wander back to work or get some work done at home. But, that didn&#8217;t happen. I was reminded though that mobile technology can be really useful when you are immobile too. I didn&#8217;t feel comfortable sitting at a desktop or notebook. But, I wanted to check my email and see what was going on in the world every couple of hours. So, I kept a WiFi-enabled Pocket PC (an old Dell Axim X50) nearby. It helped me avoid listening to the blaring music on CNN, MSNBC and other news channels. I basically just used the built-in email and browser as well as Ilium Software&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/iliumsoft.com\/site\/nw\/newsbreak.htm\">NewsBreak <\/a>to keep me up-to-date when the urge to be connected for a minute or two struck.<\/p>\n<p>An iPod with a decent set of external speakers (headphones are uncomfortable too when you are not at 100%) with a bunch podcasts provided informative and (again) non-annoying ambient sound. The speakers were the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B000F49RAA\/?tag=totechcom\">Logitech mm50<\/a>. Its sound quality is pretty decent. But, I wish its integrated rechargeable batteries had a bit more battery life.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing complex or fancy here. But, these mobile products sure kept me from suffering from the ol&#8217; sick day summer cabin fever syndrome. Stay healthy folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I called in sick today after not getting much sleep (something I ate disagreed with me or I have a mild virus of some kind). I had hoped it would clear up in a couple of hours so I could either wander back to work or get some work done at home. But, that didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,10,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices","category-pocket-pcphone-edition","category-smartphone","category-windows-mobile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-6U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}