Access Hotmail/yahoo at work

[~Craig~]

you can get some good deals on 3g cards now. I think T-Mobile do an unlimited plan + card for £30 a month.

Would be good for the hotel/B&B too

[Mailman_1]

Yeah.. I vaguely seem to remember a website where you could enter a URL and it would hide it, allowing you to surf undetected, but maybe I dreamt this?

That was called "Safeweb". It's not around anymore coz it was being used for unsavoury surfing. Peedos and such i gather.

You could get round your hotmail/yahoo dilemma if there were unrestricted ports open on your network but you would need local technical knowledge to find out if they exist and what they had been setup as etc. They arent there as standard.

Unlucky!

[cojak]

I use my own laptop and data cards when on clients site. After all I am a contractor and not an employee so their rules / equipment dont apply to me.

Sockpuppet's solution (or a blackberry) is the only legal alternative.

Anything else will get you walked off the premises if caught.

[mcquiggd]

I use a 3G phone/PDA with a POP3 client... also supports 'push' email like a blackberry. Can be had for £200 on eBay, easily sim unlocked, and I am now playing around with a hacked version of Windows Mobile 6 -which includes encryption of data on SD cards.

It's the Orange M5000 / Vodafone V1640 / O2 MDA Exec / Imate JasJar (all the same phone different badging).

Also works great with iGo GPS navigation software, which I prefer to TOM TOM 6....