Peter Moriarty: So many people ask me, well, Pete, what's your
tech setup? When you're on the road? What tools do you actually
use to get things moving inside the truck. And it's actually
pretty damn simple setup. And so you already seen I've got a
little iPad Air there, which just sits on a little tripod.
And I use that either for notes when I'm doing live streams, or
I use it for my meetings, which I'm doing right now. Next up, I
have my laptop, which happens to be a Google Pixel book. Now this
is one of the pixel books, which was not available on the
Australian market. I actually purchased this from the states
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But that's my preferred laptop. And I absolutely love
Chromebooks, heaps of other videos on our channel on why
Chromebooks are a great choice for you. And you can see here
that that's my basic setup. And whether I'm presenting at a
conference, or if I'm just working day to day, that's
pretty much all I need. And if I need to drive from place to
place where I shut the lid on my laptop, the little rubber feet
actually keep it stuck to the table, so I don't even have to
pack it away anywhere. I just literally leave it here.
Thankfully, the trucks pretty slow so it doesn't slide off the
table when I go around corners too fast. Now, internet
connectivity is the next big one that is super important to get
right. And for that I use a Netgear Nighthawk now I've got
the old one, which is called an M one, there is a newer version
called the m two, which I would recommend, it's got a few few
new features and data that you can buy the older ones anymore,
but this little modem is a couple $100. And you just put a
4g SIM card in there. Now what I would recommend is if you're an
Australian customer, and you are on the Telstra network, that's
the best network to get the most broadest coverage across
Australia, you can actually set up a business account, and you
can set up shared SIM card data pooling. What that means is, if
you've got multiple phones in your family, or if you've got
multiple phones in your business, you can actually have
all of the data pulled together. And so you're not you know,
going over the Nighthawk when you've still got data available
on your phone plan, the so that kind of puts everything
together. Now from time to time, depending on how many live
streams I'm doing on the course of a month. Or if I'm shooting
some video and I want to upload it to my team for them to
actually edit that video, well, what can actually happen is
sometimes I'll get close to reaching my data cap. And right
now I think I've got about four or 500 gigabytes a month. Now
most people don't need that much. Most people could probably
get away with 50 or 100 gigabytes if you were working
full time. But I spent a lot of time on video meetings pretty
much all my time is on video meetings. Number two, they do a
lot of media and a lot of live streams. And so I'm often
uploading content, sometimes it's 4k video content. Sometimes
it's live streams that can go for an hour or more. And so what
that means is that I've got a heavier data consumption than
most people would now those who are interested to know how I
actually do these live streams, I've got a digital camera. And
that basically plugs into this little device here, which is
called an A Tim Mini Pro. And this is by Blackmagic Design.
This is a great little device, because this basically takes the
feed out of my camera. And from that I just plug in a network
cable into the little Nighthawk. And then that basically
broadcasts the signal. And from there, I would just make sure
that I'm in a good spot for my reception. And then I can go to
town there, which is nice and easy. I can do my live streams
from anywhere I am. Apart from that, that's pretty much all I
need. I use my phone from time to time, but I try not to use my
phone too much for work. I like to use a computer or an iPad for
work and put the phone away. Because as you know, they can be
very distracting devices. Now a couple of essential apps that I
want to share with you that are in my toolkit for my CEO on the
road. My essential travel apps are I've got three
recommendations for you. Number one is called wiki camps
Australia. And this is basically what I use to pick out campsites
I can find free camping sites with this, I can find paid
camping sites, there's ratings, there's dump points when I need
to empty the toilet because there's a cassette toilet, you
got to pull out and actually dump out from here. So I can
find all of those on the wiki camps app. And that one also
works offline as well. So you can save these, these offline.
If you're in a place that doesn't have much reception. My
next recommendation is a great little app called oz phone
towers. And what this one does is it actually shows me exactly
where the phone towers are. So I know that if I have an important
meeting or an important call, and I do not want to have any
issues with internet connectivity, then I can
literally drive up to a phone tower and park underneath it.
And for each phone tower, it's going to let you know which
operators are on there. Whether it's Optus, or whether it's
Telstra, at least here in Australia. And from there, it's
actually going to let me know how far away they are, how much
bandwidth there are on them.
And so I will know before I even get to a town, what kind of
services are going to be available there. And it's going
to help me not have to guess where I'm getting good signal, I
can literally go and drive to a place with good signal. And then
I'm good to go. Now finally, and this one is a little bit more
for those who want to adventure off the beaten track. This is
called map stop me, which is my choice for off roading and for
driving maps. And so this service allows me to download
offline maps. It's a bit like Google Maps for the off road.
And it gives me things like the topography of different terrain.
So I can see how steep different climbs might be. I can also see
things like directions, even when I'm off road, or if I don't
have signal for any of the Google directions. So they're my
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