{"id":3357,"date":"2008-07-14T09:21:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T16:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2008-07-14T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T16:23:09","slug":"realty-dreams-moving-wisely-ever-cloud-wise-we-approach-the-day-when-we-can-do-anything-from-anywhere-without-lugging-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3357\/realty-dreams-moving-wisely-ever-cloud-wise-we-approach-the-day-when-we-can-do-anything-from-anywhere-without-lugging-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Realty dreams: Moving wisely ever cloud-wise, we approach the day when we can do anything from anywhere without lugging anything"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attend, if you please: OmniFocus for the iPhone<\/a>. It will not only help you Get Things Done, it will tell you when to do them. No kidding. If one of your tasks is to ship a parcel at the post office, OmniFocus will sound an alarm when you are near one. Approaching the supermarket? Here’s your shopping list.<\/p>\n

That much is just the idea of a PDA coupled with a GPS system. Still, it’s cool. But my dream for a hand-held computer is much larger than that.<\/p>\n

Consider: I carry my digital still camera and my Flip video camera with me wherever I go. I have LowePro belt-mounted camera cases, so they’re easy to carry, never in the way. I keep those two cameras with my car keys, along with everything else I take with me when I put my car keys in my pocket: My wallet, my business cards, my watch, my phone, my Bluetooth headset and my MLS key. All of these things are small and portable, either pocketable or belt-mounted, so I have almost all of the tools of my trade upon my person when I leave the house. I look like a freakin’ cop — which is not always a bad thing — but I have my stuff with me so that I can work when I need to.<\/p>\n

This is what I want for the iPhone — and for later iterations of the idea of a hand-held computer. A laptop or a notebook computer is luggable, not portable. Even the Canon and HP rechargeable printers are luggable, not portable. You might have a laptop and printer in your trunk — absorbing damage from every bump in the road and cooking in the summer heat — but you don’t have that computing power on your person<\/em>.<\/p>\n

My dream is simple: Everything that I might do on a desktop or laptop computer, I want to be able to do from a hand-held computer. I want to be able to carry my entire real estate business with me, every time I leave the house. This implies cloud computing, of course, since I will Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Attend, if you please: OmniFocus for the iPhone. It will not only help you Get Things Done, it will tell you when to do them. No kidding. If one of your tasks is to ship a parcel at the post office, OmniFocus will sound an alarm when you are near one. Approaching the supermarket? 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