[pct-l] Staying Connected - pocketmail setup
Postholer
public at postholer.com
Wed Sep 2 16:56:54 CDT 2009
If you want email and voice, get a smartphone as Brian suggested and
consolidate those 2 features.
If you want just email, look into the Peek device (getpeek.com). It's
cellular based and requires no land line. Spotty cell reception will be an
issue in Oregon and Washington.
On the west coast Verizon and AT&T are your best cell providers.
Payphones are becoming endangered species as someone mentioned, but land
lines aren't. Your Pocketmail will still work with those.
If you're keeping a journal you can update your journal directly via email
at postholer.com, not possible at trailjournals.com. You can also have your
SPOT's sent directly to your journal map at postholer, with PCT trail trace,
which is not possible anywhere except postholer. When you hit the 'OK' or
'Help' button on your SPOT your location will show up almost immediately on
your journal map.
If you're not carrying a SPOT and want to share your location with your GPS,
add a latitude/longitude with your journal entry and your journal map will
be updated with your location and PCT trace, again, only possible at
postholer.
Also, if you're carrying a smartphone your twitter messages can appear in
your journal as well. You can also tweet your location if you're carrying a
GPS. Folks can see your location by clicking the 'Where Am I' link in your
journal twitter messages.
Demo: http://postholer.com/demo
Help: http://postholer.com/journal/help.php
P.S.
I think the only features trailjournals.com has added in the last 10 years
are more advertisements and multiple ways to send them money. Postholer has
no advertisements nor do we ask for your money, hikers helping hikers, what
a concept.
-postholer
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