I'm Dr. Joshua Schwimmer, a nephrologist and internal medicine physician in New York City. • Kidney Notes was the first active nephrology blog. (Trivia: Kidney Notes is so old that the National Library of Medicine still uses it as an example of how to formally cite blogs.) • Professionally, you can find me at Kidney.nyc. • Kidney Notes is for educational purposes only, not medical advice. Consult qualified health care professionals. See disclaimer.

Wednesday, March 9, 2005

Reviews

Thumbs up to the Treo 650. I had a Treo 600 for two years and replaced it under warranty four times. The Treo 650, so far, seems much more stable, is significantly faster, and has a beautiful screen. The biggest downside is the memory issue (written about everywhere), but a utility called PowerRUN and a complimentary 128 meg card provided by palm seem to have solved this problem reasonably well.

A qualified thumbs up to Snappermail also, which is significantly better than the buggy Versamail. The biggest downside is the annoying habit of laboriously highlighting every link in every email, which makes trying to scroll through quickly a pain in the ass. Snappermail support has been appropriately sympathetic and perhaps they will change the scrolling system in a future release. (I should mention that these entries are emailed to kidneynotes using Snappermail on a Treo.)

Also thumbs up to adobe reader for palm, avantgo, treo butler, datebk5, documents to go, epocrates, filez, holidates2, lifebalance, and everything on statcoder.com.