Travelogue

I am addicted. Yes, you heard it right, I am addicted, to traveling. Istanbul, Egypt, China, India, Burma, Greece. I have seen some and I want to see more. I am a businessman and travel is a part of my job description. I need not travel to all these locations but I tweak my plans so that I can visit the places I want to. Still don’t see the problem? Well, you see, I travel with my laptop. So I need to lug that piece of technology around wherever I go. I’d sometime need to conduct meetings at a short notice. Hey, traveling with a laptop and some hitches is far better than not traveling at all. But yes, it is an inconvenience. Not the demand on my time by the business, but carrying the laptop around. Sometimes the laptop is not charged and the meetings get postponed and my schedule goes haywire. I then regret the places not seen because most often than not I don’t get an opportunity to go back and see them again. I put them on my ‘have to see’ list. The list just grows.

I have been looking for a solution to my problem and the last time I went to a business lunch, I happened to mention it to my client. He said there was a solution and was surprised that I had not looked at it yet. He mentioned about an application called I-Flapp. He said he has been using it for a long time now and it’s been extremely useful. He thought maybe I should take a look at it.
As soon as I reached home, I looked up the device and I was happily surprised that it suited my needs perfectly. Once the application is installed on the device, it literally carries my desktop everywhere. I could carry my PowerPoint, my messenger, my outlook and all my other applications in a small external USB drive, to accessed from any computer anywhere.
I can also carry my music and my games. Needless to say, I need not carry my laptop during my excursions anymore. I can probably plug it in the local internet café and access my work using just my I-Flapp device. Security is not an issue either, as there are no traces of my work left behind on any of the computers I’m working from. I can sync back changes from the work done back to my laptop (when I am back to where my laptop is). I am thrilled with the find. I can now travel without any need to be in a hotel room at a particular time to plug in my laptop and work. I just need an internet café. For that matter, any computer, anywhere will do. Well, that’s another story altogether. Till someone invents internet café’s in a pocket, I-Flapp will work nicely. I dare say I am as addicted to my I-Flapp now, as I am to traveling…ummm…well almost.