Random Thoughts by Chuck

I used to have an Audiovox PPC 6000 and one of my biggest complaints was how slow the thing was. It did just about everything, but I had to soft reset it pretty much daily under moderate use. Once I got over my most recent gadget craze, I sold it and went back to my trusty Samsung A520. About 6 months ago I picked up an HTC 4000, running Windows Mobile 6. It’s a bit lighter, more well thought out and does everything. Bluetooth, Wifi, Media player, email, 2.0 MP camera, Micro SD and the list goes on and on.

Surprise surprise, it started running slow after heavy use. You can optimize the on-board memory use or use the micro-SD card to load programs or store data, but I still couldn’t seem to get it to run really fast. Enter Mem Maid. This is easily the best utility I think I’ve ever used. Bar none. It gives you the ability to clean out and compact your RAM at the click of a button, it can be scheduled to run nightly and clean up all your temp files, fragmented files, memory, old notifications, close running programs etc.

Since I picked up Mem Maid, I can recall 1 time I had to reset the device and that’s only because my wife tried to drown it by accident! Speaking of the scheduling, I run mine at midnight and it’s sitting right beside me here restoring my memory…waiting….waiting…553.34 KB freed up from unwanted stuff. It even has built in optimization profiles based on usage. For $20, that’s a helluva bargain IMO.

Anybody who owns a PDA definitely should give this tool a look.

Now this is cool. Brando’s USB micro SD card reader is about the size of the tip of your thumb. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while. I can carry a bunch of data, my Linux distro and even a Mojopac image of my home PC on my 4 Gig micro SD card in my PDA. Well, either all that stuff or 1 Dream Theater MP3!

It’s a shame they’re out of stock (at least when I checked last). I definitely have to get one of these and then I’ll post an update on how such a small simple device that costs $11 can bring so much joy!