A Faster Treonauts While On the Go

Personally, to view Treonauts and most other blogs on the go, I just use the mobile version of BlogLines to read the RSS feeds, avoiding all the site junk, and aggregating it with other sites in my "Mobile: Palm OS" category.

Hooray! This new mobile version works great on my Treo600. I will now be visiting the site much more often! Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the update. Here's some irony for you... viewing your new URL (go.treonauts.com) in Firefox keeps the same domain name in the address bar, however viewing it from Blazer shows the re-direct over to Skweezer... it would seem Skweezer's JavaScript browser detection needs some work. :)

I guess I was hoping for a text only version that also excluded all the advertising, similar to how Google, Yahoo, and Slashdot do it (they all depend on advertising dollars, but strip out the ads for their mobile optimized versions). However, I guess this is better than it was. For some reason, my test from Blazer took 37 seconds to fully load, not 10 as you experienced, but I understand that different networks have different speeds. Perhaps you had an EDGE connection for your tests? :) Its just too bad that I still have to scroll through 300 or so lines of advertising to get to the stories. Oh well, I learned when I got married that I can't have everything I want, so I guess I'll just live with it. :)

FYI: images aside, if you view your regular site the two outer columns account for almost as much text as the center column (depending on many posts you've made). Thus, if you stripped out the advertising and made only the center column available, the page would be half as large and thus should load twice as fast. :)

For those of you that make use of my portal (http://palm.nccomp.com), I've updated the old link to Treonauts (which simply ran it through Skweezer, but kept the images intact) to use the new go.treonauts.com link. You can hit it directly here: http://palm.nccomp.com/PDAAndTreoSites.html

Help! I am new to the Treo 650, and I can't figure out how to create voice tags. So frustrating to call verizon and palm one. When I go to the preferences icon and then to voice tags: set up, it tells me to initiate the voice tags using the bluetooth (jabra BT 250). Please email. I am currently a new assistant for Daniel Kellison and Jimmy Kimmel. They both have the same Treo 650 and Jabra bluetooth. Thanks for any help,
Jessica Makinson

Not to sound rude or calloused, but since your comment couldn't be any further off-topic...

Have you ever heard of a manual??? If so, between actually opening and reading both the Treo 650's manual and the Jabra's manual, and possibly even reading the forum posts at palmone.com, you'll probably get your answer.

And remember, its YOUR job to read these things. After all, if Daniel Kellison and Jimmy Kimmel read them, they wouldn't need you for an assistant. :) Thank gawd you aren't on The Apprentice.

[] I offer a small tidbit of hope: it says to "initiate the voice tags using the jabra". [] First pair up the 650 and the Jabra (back to the manuals you should go []) and make sure you can use the Jabra for phone calls. Then make your voice tags through the Jabra itself.

Oh, and one more thing... voice tags are typically unique to the user. So don't waste your time trying to record the names of all of Jimmy's contacts with your own voice as 90% of them won't work. He needs to record the names in his voice for them to work properly.

[]

[Editor's Note: parts of this comment were un/fortunately deleted. Please AJ keep it above a certain level... Still, thanks for your input.

Cheers, A.]

Thanks for your own update A. Davis! ;-)

We'll keep trying to do better...

Cheers, A.

You edited out the "padawan learner" part... considering the recent release of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, I thought that was the funniest part of AJ's comment. :)

Jessica... [] I'm always one for helping a women in need. Drop me an email and we'll make some *arrangements* for help. ;)

[Editor's Note: AD/AJ perhaps match.com is a more appropriate venue... ;-) ]

As relates to this topic I have a request which relates to Mr. Combee's comment earlier.

Is it possible to include the entire text of each article in the sites RSS Feed? The current amount of data allowed by the feed is a blurb and I certainly do get feeds that contain considerably more text. If this is possible, it would be a great additional means of getting this site on the go.

Thanks.

Jessica, the main thing is that this isn't the right place to post this. You can get tons of help by posting your own new message on the forums over at MyTreo.net or Treocentral.com, or the Yahoo! Groups Treo or Treo650. Good luck!

Now, Andrew, regarding Skweezer, you might want to check out some of the concerns that have been expressed regarding this tool. Specifically that it strips out the ads on web pages and inserts it's own ads. This is an issue especially when people have copyrighted their sites either via standard copyright or with the Creative Commons license that specifies non-commercial use. Here's one article about this:

http://www.blogscanada.ca/blog/PermaLink,guid,d636d936-f57c-4187-af68-ca6736eb0275.aspx

Thanks Levi - I really appreciate it.

Yes, I am aware of the ad issue with Skweezer but I have taken a slightly different view than others on the topic.

As I see it, Skweezer provides me and the Treonauts blog a valuable service which allows people to view our content while on the go. I do not pay for this service nor do the users and as long as the company's own advertising is limited to Google links at the bottom of the page I believe that they offer a great value in return.

Please consider that other sites or blogs similarly re-aggregate third-party information and then insert their own advertising so I don't see why Skweezer should be singled out.

Cheers, A.

Andrew, I don't think Skweezer is being "singled out." Rather, I think all those other sites are basically the same as spammers. They take others content and redistribute it while displaying their ads. They are numberous, but I'm thinking and hoping that Google limits their access to its rankings by blacklisting and other means. However, Skweezer is a bit different in that it is a legitimate company trying to provide a service, and some people value that service. They are listed in Google, but it seems that they may be breaking the rights people have reserved for their content like those that are universally abhored and avoided. Apparently they have also refused to respond to such criticism in an open way, which just makes me less likely to want to have anything to do with them. While I'm not out there telling people to try to bring them down, I also think it's important that when we do mention the good parts about their service, we also mention that there is some controversy over the legality and/or ethics of how they provide that service...

My solution to reading Treonauts on the go is to take advantage of the RSS feed with QuickNews. It eliminates all of the advertising (for now) and allows me to read whether I'm on the network or not (such as in a plane). I have it setup to sync daily and grab the latest posts and then I'm always up to speed with the cool stuff Andrew has to share!

Anyone else get this? - when viewing http://go.treonauts.com using Blazer in Optimized Mode, the up an down functions on the 5-way get flipped and scrolling doesn't function right.. If I use Wide Page mode, however, the page behaves normally.

Yes, I am getting that too.