Monthly Archives: August 2005

Music on My Treo 650

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Yeah, I carry music, and alot of it on my Treo. At the risk of dating myself by listing some of the music I have on my Treo at this moment… I’ll forge ahead.

I use the RealPlayer that comes factory-installed in the Treo 650 as my player. I used PTunes when I had the Treo 600, and liked it enough to upgrade to the “bells and whistles” edition.

I find that, until my video player offers background play as an option, the RealPlayer does a fine job with a simple interface.Below is a list of the artists I have in my music collection on the Treo 650 at the moment. Some artists only rated one song, others got an album, so the listing of an artist isn’t an indication of the number of songs. I’m running just over 600 megs of music on my expansion card.

But, this means that no matter where I am or what I’m doing, I can have stereo quality sound while I’m away. I even turn on my Treo and listen to music while its in the cradle here on my desk sometimes — but the sound quality suffers when the tiny speaker is used instead of the stereo headphones.

Music (by artist in no particular order) currently loaded on my Treo in MP3 format:

  • Pink
  • Sheryl Crow
  • Pure Prarie League
  • Caldwell Shine
  • Shania Twain
  • Travis Tritt
  • Natalie Merchant
  • Collective Soul
  • Suzy Bogguss
  • Bob Seger
  • Melissa Etheridge
  • Elton John
  • Harry Chapin
  • Pam Tillis
  • Aerosmith
  • Dixie Chicks
  • Edie Brikell and the New Bohemians
  • Bad Company
  • A.J. Rosales
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Alanis Morissette
  • Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Bonnie Raitt
  • Lee Ann Womak
  • John Michael Montgomery
  • Vince Gill
  • Loreena McKennit
  • BTO
  • Guns ‘n’ Roses
  • Lou Reed
  • Aimee Mann
  • Elf Farm Raffle
  • Garbage
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Madonna
  • Rush
  • Cherish the Ladies
  • Bach
  • Gary Girouard
  • Vivaldi
  • Joan Osborne
  • James Taylor
  • Live
  • Rod Stewart
  • Eurythmics
  • Lisa Loeb
  • Missing Person Soup Kitchen
  • Joan Hammel
  • Cartier
  • Indigo Girls
  • Tom Petty
  • Fleetwood Mac
  • Kenny Wayne Shepherd
  • REM
  • Clannad
  • The Chieftans
  • Seal
  • Simon & Garfunkel
  • Robert Cray Band

So, no matter where I am, what I’m doing or what mellow or funky, laid back (or even country) mood I’m in, I can play the music to match.
Ahh, it’s good to be eclectic . ;o)

What Audio Books Do I Have on My Treo 650?

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Aside from the eBooks listed earlier, I also carry a wide selection of Audible’s Audio Book Content. This permits me to listen while driving, it’s a great way to soak up information while taking a stroll, I use it when my eyes are too tired to read, or when I’m just too lazy to read for myself and would rather have it read to me.

It’s convenient, it’s a luxury — and it’s nice to have books read to you. Kinda takes you back to “bedtime stories” in your youth. Of course, few of those were articles in FastCompany, Books about the art of writing, marketing-industry related or even best sellers. ;o)

The Audible Audio Content currently loaded on my Treo 650:

Recent editions of:

  • Brain Brew
  • MarketPlace
  • Fast Company

Books and Special Editions:

  • China, Inc
  • On Intelligence
  • On Writing
  • All Marketers are Liars
  • The “Consumerization” of High Technology
  • eBoys
  • The Art of Fiction
  • The Art of Nonfiction
  • War and Peace (yeah, it’s really on there – but just part one)
  • Magic Street
  • The Wall Street Journal Special Report on Telecommunications
  • Margaret Atwood Reads
  • Library of Congress Lectures on Digital Future – (8 full lectures)
  • Selling the Invisible
  • Scientific American Mind: Creativity

Books I listen to WITH my Daughter:

  • Eragon
  • InkHeart
  • Kingdom and the Elves of the Reaches
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

These are a few of the Audible Audiobooks I own, and the only ones I’m carrying right now. I like to listen to my books at a fairly high quality, so this represents about 25% of my 2 gig card.

If you are interested in trying out Audible’s Books, they are running a 50% off sale through August 31st. (I picked up a few more titles during this event, myself.)

What eBooks Do I Have on My Treo?

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I’ve had a few questions about what I carry on my own Treo 650 lately. I’ll have an exhaustive list in an article when the rebuild process is complete.

But for now, as I rebuild between client projects, I’ll share the data “types” and try to group them logically for you.

Rebuilding is a good time to clean house and keep only the really good stuff and this entry will give you the complete “cleaned up” ebook library that I carry on my Treo and the expansion card.
I can’t (unfortunately) get all the books I want in a single format. I have, however, limited my formats to two: eReader and iSilo formats. I wish I could find a “universal” reader that would read all the top formats with a single full-featured program (like iSilo). But until then, I carry two.

The current list of ebooks on my Treo 650 (in no particular order):

Reference library:

  • Copy of the US Constitution
  • Encyclopedia Britannica Concise 2005
  • Travel & Wilderness Medicine
  • Terrorism Medical Response
  • Dietary Guidelines for Americans (updated)
  • 2005 CIA World Fact Book
  • General History for Colleges
  • Wrong Word: Homonyms, Homophones and Language-Related Booby-Traps
  • Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults
  • US Army Survival Field Manual
  • Ancient Egyptian Handbook
  • Aesop’s Fables
  • Bulfinch’s Mythology
  • Who Was Who: 5000 BC to Date

To Entertain Me:

  • Entire Gutenberg Twain Texts
  • Collected Works of Poe (five volumes)
  • Anthem
  • Works of Samuel Johnson (two volumes)
  • Biography on Samuel Johnson
  • The Art of Writing
  • The Efficiency Expert
  • ShoGun
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Ringworld
  • Wheel of Time, Book 1: The Eye of the World
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Rising Sun
  • Gone with the Wind
  • American Gods
  • Lives of the Necromancers
  • Slow River
  • Fight Club
  • Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist
  • Ender’s Game
  • The Green Mile
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven
  • Digital Fortress
  • Lord of the Flies
  • The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories
  • Forty Centuries of Ink
  • Zen and the Art of the Internet
  • Tea Leaves
    (… and a couple “racy” ones I’ll decline to list here)

To Entertain My Daughter:

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Friendly Fairies
  • Just So Stories
  • Le Morte D’Arthur
  • Life/Adventures of Santa Clause
  • Water Babies
  • Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan
  • Alice in Wonderland

Yes, I carry alot of books, but I’m never without something really GOOD to read. And this list changes out as I read books and add new ones. This is only a small selection of my entire ebook library, but it’s what I carry at this moment.

For those interested, this represents less than 20% of the space on my 2 gig card. How else could I carry a virtual library shelf full of reading material in a “fat postage stamp-sized” storage device?

It’s good to go digital!

Found a Great Healthy (and Organic) Snack for the Office

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I’ve been doing the natural foods/organic deal for quite a few weeks now. And the hardest thing has been the “snacks” to tuck away near my desk for that 3:00-4:00 p.m. “slump” that I hit.

I think I’ve finally found what will work — a little organic combination of goodies!

I’ve discovered dried Organic (unsulphured, unsweetened) Mango. It’s delicious! I think I like it almost as much as my organic dark chocolate squares and my daily handful of organic almonds or walnuts.

It’s not cheap, and I guess you would have to love mangoes as much as I do (which would be a feat) — but if you are looking for a quick to grab, good-for-you little mid-afternoon pick-me-up — try some dried mango slices.

Simlar to “fruit leather” concepts, but this one is not chopped and “reformed” — it’s just sliced and dried and that’s it.

I got mine at Wild Oats Lexington, Kentucky. But, I’m sure you can order them from anywhere.

Simplify Your Life and Improve Your Real Estate Marketing Materials — Use ONE Phone Number — Yep Just ONE.

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One of the first steps my real estate clients take is bundling up every single scrap of marketing literature, materials and what-not that they currently use, or have used in the past — and they send it to me to review.

Usually their business cards, letterhead, brochures and other marketing pieces are cluttered with a slew of phone numbers. So many, in fact, it’s a point of distraction.

Why make your clients and your potential clients work to reach you? Why shouldn’t making the decision to call you be decision enough? Why must they then decide if they want to visit you on the web, email you, call you at home, dial the “main number,” dial the direct line, call your cell, send a fax or punch in your pager number? Continue reading →