A Work from home career has lots of advantages, not least of which is a reduced, or even eliminated, requirement to use a car. However, even when you work from home the majority of the day, for example doing Online jobs, you could at some time or other discover the requirement to leave the office to run some errand or other. Journeys to the bank, picking up of parcels or mail at the post office or visits to your local stationer for emergency stationery supply could all occur from time to time no matter what your work from home jobs entail. And the bad news is that driving your car for any such short journeys has a negative effect on your fuel consumption as the engine does not warm up properly.What’s more, emissions from the enginecar are most in the initial three miles so your green credentials are rather spoilt by such very short trips.

I’ve been working from home for seven years now. I go out every days for one reason or another but during the last few months have started riding my mountain bike instead of my car. It really works, my journeys are up to four miles and done in less than twenty minutes. It is rare that the weather is a show stopper,now and again I capitulate and jump in my car but that is quite unusual. I fitted a saddle bag for carrying items in, I can put in all my inbound or outbound post and a reasonable amount of stationery should I run out of anything.

Of course safety is a worry but I always wear a helmet and I select my routes with care to miss the bulk of the traffic. In fact I can get to my bank branch in twenty five minutes using exclusively minor roads.

I find this improves my work from home operation by providing true green transport and it provides me with useful exercise as well.

The 0 ContourGPS sits among the top-tier of consumer-friendly helmet cams, but it’s always posed one major problem: you can’t really tell where it’s pointing. Sure, it shoots a pair of wicked lasers out of the front, but it’s always a challenge to gauge the extents of its 135 degree lens. We knew there was a secret trick in there waiting to be unleashed, which we got to play with at CES, and now here it is. Contour has released its Connect View functionality for iOS, letting you view live footage from the camera right on your phone. Keep reading for our full impressions.

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