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Even after having my Treo for nearly three months, my fun with it doesn't seem to fade away yet. With this tiny in hand computer I always find something interesting.

Here's my last weekend with the Treo

I was into Kandy last week for a vacation. And I found the Treo can be an indispensable partner for the occasion.

No net, no TV (I am not a TV fan at all)  means you will spend your time what it supposed to be, on vacation mood. So generally after all the family chit chat and stuff are over there you still get aplenty of time to spare, One can have 1-2 hours in the bed for oneself. I normally either listen to the radio/ my iPod or sometimes read something in those times.

Our distant corner room where I stayed got nothing but a basic room. So I was free to play with the Treo. I knew this moment would come so I had kept my things ready. I had configured and tested the Treo with Mobitel's GPRS. I had shrinked down, copied the full Robots movie in Divx format to the Treo SD card. I always have nearly 100 songs in it in MP3 format in it. So I was more than ready for a solitary adventure with my Treo which I don't get much when I am in the city.

This was the test time to check how my Treo fair on this "all in one" device category.

I connected to the net easily. Checked my gMail account, browsed my normal reading sites like LBO. MyTreo Net and CNET News sites, checked my bank whether the salary has been updated and the credit accounts. Then ckecked the last mobile  bill payment I have made. All went flawless. I even download a couple of ringtones and small applications for the Treo to test. Connection is steady and experience is good.

Browsing wasn't on far with a desktop due to the tiny screen, means a lot of scrolling but I still could managed to get pretty much the same things I do in daily basis on a desktop. cool.

And thereafter with TCPMP Divx Player I watched the whole Robots movie in my bed and finally fall into sleep.

Umm... sounds not bad for what a phone can do nowadays... hugh?

I know this idea is very debatable.

Say how much would you care about a regular used day to day perfume?



The pictures here and below shows two things I've got recently. Gifts. In the face value they may be worlds apart, for the sake of giving I value the both alike, and what they mean to me is a whole lot different story. Here I am not trying to count the teeth of a free given horse. But this gives me the seeds to talk about something I like, gifts, and how they value in the society we live in.

People use various measures to give themselves a class and a status in the hope of prestige. For me the value of something like this depends on just the idea of giving and the person who is in the question. Other than that I don’t really care about the brand, the price or the class it comes with. Honestly I don’t see a difference on whole lot things as long as they do the job it suppose to do. Gifted, given or brought it, whatever.

Say for an example how many people around you could tell you that what kind of perfume you are wearing? The best they can get, Huh! you have changed/ wearing a new perfume like mere something.

This sounds just the same in bigger scale say whether you own a Toyota or a BMW. At least those are seemingly distinguishable by the general people or so I hope, means generally anyone would look at and say, Aha.. it's a BM. But even my argument about that generic notion of cars goes wrong when I think of my best friend. If we excuse her for being a girl and not interested about automobiles, still this clashes with the guys' general notion that you can win any if you drive a one. With my friend I know it wouldn't be the case. She would only see it as just another car which takes you from A to B.

So asking to differentiate something form someone, say a perfume, serves no purpose unless he/she in the trade. Nobody is in our office out of 40 people would ever be able to name the perfume I've wearing even if I ask. Noone would ever give a damn. It’s just a refreshment. For that anything that smell nice would do. So what’s the point adding a fortune to the thin air is the question I ask myself.

For me (for most who parallel to my thinking) spending a such amount over something that goes nowhere looks plain darn stupid.

There are still isolated sections in society that still gives a big deal over where your are from, what you wear, the brands and so on. And they take it as the class or the status. But what most don’t know is those things, the prestige, can not be brought from, unless one really earns it. Still in general globalization and busy lifestyles even these “can be brought by status simbols” have played havocs. So many look alike brands, products have lost their status in the vast taste of consumer preferences. There are names which still holds the crown for prestige but not like the good old days I remember.

There was a time that my household was truly 'It's a SONY' story. The TVs, the VCRs, Cassettes, Walkmans you name it. Now not a single bears the Sony name. But in fact out user experience has never gone down but improved. So I don’t care if it is an Apple iPod or a cheap Taiwan product or some designer wear which bears big name as long as they do what they suppose to.

So back to the gift story, when you think of presents I (most guys I hope) prefer tangible things than intangibles, the person than the brand and the use than its price.

And still gifts should be untouchables which just lie in your memory.

If you do speak the language, then the Custom ROM may sounds familiar. Technically speaking, one of the most powerful but dreaded feature of the Palm OS is Custom ROMs.

It used to be a thing in the past. Tools like JackFlash might have gone to extinction. Because none of the recent SONY CLIE or PalmOne devices had the ROM update capability for a casual user. Things did changed when they released my lovely Treo 650 and it’s updates.

A smart guy comes as Shadowmite figured how they do it in the Treo factory and shared the knowledge. So we can all do it in house. The story is a long one.

All I want to say is today I myself took the plunge with my newly brought Treo Beauty. Whoa! Now it still runs Palm OS plus my favourite applications without installing any! He he heeeeeeeeee!

The term Custom ROM derives from the ability to include whatever the software applications you want to have in your device, rather than having them installed later, just as the factory fitted way. Cool but the process ain’t for the faint hearted. Should something go wrong, your most precious tool will end up just being a paper weight.