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.

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

What's on my Treo 650




The Treo 650 is my only phone. I recently upgraded from the Treo 600 because I had to replace it four times.

These are programs which may be of special interest to nephrologists, nephrology fans, or internal medicine docs.

  • Adobe Reader: Can read lots of things now.

  • Avantgo: Indispensable. Channels are New York Times Front Page, Book Reviews, Business, Technology, Arts, International; American Medical News; PCWORLD.COM; and Salon.

  • DatavizTech: The only purpose of this program is moving DocsToGo to your memory card to save space.

  • DateBk5: Because the supplied calendar program is too clunky.

  • DocsToGo: Primarily for arcane spreadsheets.

  • Epocrates: Originally I used MobilePDR but it developed hotsyncing problems so I switched. I like knowing drug prices.

  • eReader: I don't read books on paper anymore if I can help it.

  • FileZ: In case you need to do something like delete all the corrupted files of VersaMail.

  • hblogger: Because I liked the interface better than mo: blog's.

  • HoliDates2: So I put the dates in. Now what?

  • Life Balance: "The word processor of to do lists." Or something.

  • MedCalc: Almost all the formulas I need.

  • PowerRUN: Because of that annoying 650 memory issue that makes Treo users want to kill Palm.

  • Snappermail: VersaMail is very, very, very buggy.

  • Statcoder.com: Everything on this page.