[pct-l] Staying Connected - pocketmail setup

[wctrekker at dslextreme.com]

Although I was not on the trail for very long I was able to update my journal at trailjournals via my blackberry. Admittedly it looked a little weird on my phone it still worked fine. 

Bill
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Postholer" <public at postholer.com>

Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 14:56:54 
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Subject: [pct-l]  Staying Connected - pocketmail setup


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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Trails : http://Postholer.Com
Journals : http://Postholer.Com/journal
Maps : http://Postholer.Com/gmap 

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