HOW TO: Live a truly mobile life (for real)

But don't fear, for I am here. I will give you the tips you need to keep your web 2.0 savvy life au-jour even if you're out on the run.
So you've got your whole life on the net. You use GCal for calendar management, you use GMail and GTalk for keeping in touch, you blog and you let everyone know what you're doing with twitter. This is the way many of our lives look today.

Sure, this is great to use as long as you've got access to a computer. But who wants to sit in fron of a screen the whole day? Then there would be nothing to blog about, or events to add to the calendar. Yes, you might still have some IM friends who don't mind never seeing you IRL, but sooner or later (depending on your cash status) your income probably will drop for never working, and then your ISP will close your broadband for not payin your bills. THEN you will have no friends. Sounds good? Nah, didn't think so.

But don't fear, for I am here. I will give you the tips you need to keep your web 2.0 savvy life au-jour even if you're out on the run.

This requires you own a cellphone. Fairly new (with new I mean not older than it can send SMS). Preferrably your phone can use JAVA apps and use GPRS or 3G.

The spider of the web is Twitter. This service seems very open, and a lot of other services are linking with twitter, which is very good. If you dont have an account, get one.

Then what you need to do is learn how to update you twitter from your phone. You can do this either via SMS or from a JAVA client. I use one called Jitter, which is great, but there are others out there, so find one you like.

The last step is to add the bots for the services you need. For example, if you add GCal (or "follow" as it's called on twitter) to your friends list, you can send a direct message using GCal's Quick Add Syntax, and it will automatically add an event to your Google Calendar. Nice!

There are bunch of twitter bots out there, so choose your likings.

The Bonus level is if you're lucky your phone is supported by GooSync, because then you can sync your GCal with your phones native calendar. That way you don't have to use those not so savvy mobile versions.

For your blogging needs, just use Shozu. Period.

The way I use this is I've got a Sony Ericsson W880i. It's got a blogging client already installed, so I don't need Shozu. Using Jitter, I update my twitter status, I send direct messages to my "bots" adding events to both GCal and Remember The Milk. I also check my Gmail occasionally, but that's not so savvy.

So congrats, you can now roam out in the sun without worrying about anything except those not so nifty data costs. Remedy? Get a flat rate data plan. I don't have one, so I have to think before I use. However, Jitter is completely text-only, so there isn't much data getting sent each time.

Good luck!