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I have recently been alerted that a UK 3G mobile provider now offers a package which includes Orb MyCast (or Orb 2) compatibility - and while Orb seems primarily useful for transmitting media files, Orb 2 also allows you to read documents from the PC at home on your mobile device.
But can you then edit them? And if you edit them do they auto-synchronise between your mobile device and your home PC?
If this proves to be an effective way of updating static HTML, CSS and Javascript files while on the move, I may be spending a lot more time outside this summer. >;->
If you're going to get a PDA phone, you have many other options for accessing and editing remote files. For example, you could use FTP to transfer files back and forth (using a text editor on the PDA phone) could install an SSH client (allowing you to transfer files using SFTP, access an interactive shell session), etc. etc. etc.
While this would seem a reasonable option for "emergency" access to your site and keeping tabs on server status and statistics, I can't imagine doing routine updates to a website using such a tiny screen. A better solution would be a notebook with a 3G card.
If you're going to get a PDA phone, you have many other options for accessing and editing remote files. For example, you could use FTP to transfer files back and forth
Yep, that's true, but then it wouldn't keep the local files on my PDA phone synchronised with the local files on my laptop at home. I thought Orb might be able to get around this.
I can't imagine doing routine updates to a website using such a tiny screen
Yeah, I hear what you're saying! But this would be for content rather than structure updates and fairly painless. (Fingers crossed!)
Does anyone update files from an MDA and use software (such as Orb or anything similar) to keep their home and mobile local versions synchronised?
There's a bunch of software available for PDA phones that will sync files between your PDA and home computer.
Yes. But not from 3000 miles away, perhaps. It would be nice to keep everything synchronised whether I am in Moscow, Casablanca or Kuala Lumpur.
I think I have settled on the Nokia E90 - it has a browser, email, MS compatible document creation and editing, and - from what I've been able to gather - will run both Fring, which will let me use Skype, and Orb on its Series 60 (version 3) OS. That should be adequate to replace my laptop and nuke the office paradigm from my life.
The prospect of going on holiday for the rest of my life (something I've been aiming for since I graduated) looms. >;->
