February 10th, 2008 Comments Off
One of my obsessions over the past few years has been to try and reduce my travel technology down to a couple of items — namely a smart phone (Treo 680) and a digital camera (Panasonic FZ5).
The Treo 680 contains all my travel information and contact details and on the road I also use it to browse the Internet and to send and receive emails. I also write stuff and send it out in MSWord format with the help of Documents to Go and my Palm Wireless Keyboard.
With a program called CallRec I can record anything from a phone conversation to the sound of a Indian Sitar. And with an 8GB SD-card full of ebooks and music and a video or two it also helps keep me occupied.
I’ve found my Treo to be so versatile I rarely need to travel with a laptop any more.
February 5th, 2008 Comments Off
I’ve just bought this very cool Bluetooth stereo headset (Sony Ericsson HBH-DS980) and a smart piece of software called Softick Audio Gateway, a fast 8GB SD card and stuck it all on my Treo 680. Now I have heaps of music (pTunes) and a few audio books I can listen to (Audible) and some videos (TCPMP) I can watch while I’m on the road — and what’s more — it all just seems to work. Very cool!
Oh! I almost forgot — if you decide to call me while I’m bopping to the Beatles, then with this setup I can also answer your call using the headset. The music (and my bopping) will stop automatically and when I hang-up it all starts again, also automatically.
Lucky the Treo doesn’t have video conferencing — dancing is the sort of thing I only do in private these days — nuf said! 
September 26th, 2006 Comments Off
It was market day. Lots of people going about their business and then there was me and my camera. I reckon this is Grandpa reading her a story. Although, it might be Grandpa reading a Chinese version of The Da Vinci Code for all I know.
One thing I did learn that day — I should have brought a few more cards with me. I was getting short of space on my last SD card and had to cull — small screens on the back of digital cameras just doesn’t cut it for editing. I ended up keeping a few bad shots that looked good on the screen, so maybe a few good ones got trashed.
