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March 29, 2005
Leo's World
A couple of people asked what I was up to lately, so here's a snapshot. Not surprisingly, most can be found on the web...
- Ask Leo!: besides almost daily posts answering people's questions, a new initiative to "link to Leo!", and a new weekly podcast.
- Dolls and Friends: various bits of work such as the article here to get the search engines to like us better. Also a little marketing play: a doll with a blog.
- Hopelink: in addition to the Executive Leadership Council, I joined the board of directors in January, and am also helping/advising as they embark on a website redesign.
- I'm a volunteer moderator for the Corgi-L mailing list of 2000+ Corgi owners world wide.
- Forwarded Funnies: I try to post something new there every day. I keep getting good stuff, and when that runs low, I still have a two year backlog to work through.
- Smaller projects of my own in various stages of development or use: Buy Leo a Latte, Buy Leo a Beer, Leo's Movable Type Tips and Tricks, Spyware Chronicles (actually a proof of concept site), and Leo's Links because apparently everyone now needs a link blog too.
- Currently active clients include Best Green Hotels, an implementation from scratch.
- Clients in "maintenance and occasional feature tweak" mode include This is True Archive (and several other related sites), Ask The Builder, Vital news, publisher of Word Tips and Excel Tips, The David Lawrence Show and Online Tonight, Surfing the Net with Kids, and probably a few I've forgotten.
- You'll find my columns republished occasionally in Aunty Spam's newsletter, Lockergnome and Business Know-How. You'll hear my podcasts rebroadcast on The Chris Pirillo Show.
Whew! And I play Asheron's Call. And I'm building a fence. Digging one bloody post hole at a time. By hand.
No wonder I'm tired...
Updated 4/12: neglected to mention Corgi-L!
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March 25, 2005
What's on my Treo?
A friend just got a Treo 650, and asked what additional software might be useful. Well, I'm incredibly happy with my Treo 600 (via Verizon), so here's a list of what's on my Treo:
- Snappermail is a full-fledged pop3 email client. I run Snappermail Premier Edition. It's my #2 application by use.
- Pocket Tunes turns my Treo into my portable MP3 player. This is my #1 application ... so much so that I have it mapped to the calendar button on the Treo handset.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader works well for the 600, and I'd expect even better on the 650, because of it's higher resolution screen.
- Blocks, also known as Tetris. I needed at least one mindless game on the device, and this is it.
- Mundu IM a multi-service instant messaging client.
- PdaNet allows me to use my Treo as a high speed wireless modem for my laptop. Invaluable.
- PdaReach has to be seen - it's "Remote Desktop" for my Treo. While docked, I can interact with the phone through my the application running on my Windows Desktop. Very nicely done.
- pssh is for the geeks, but it's an SSH client for Palm OS. For those of us who use SSH to access our servers, this is a great safety net to have with in case you need to fix something on the server right now.
- Ringo just because I wanted a Star Trek beep when my phone rings. Allows you to have the phone play MP3's as ring tones.
Those are the biggies. Some might argue that much of that should have been on the phone to begin with. Fair enough. (Especially MP3's for ring tones.) But regardless, here I am. And happy about it.
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