there is extra time between the reading in addition the processors which are associated with these readers often include significant computing power for example in a cellular phone the reader may include electronics which carry out cellular phone functions analog to digital conversion and other complicated mathematical operations these electronics may have sufficient processing power to carry out many other functions this is especially true when the reader of the mp3 information is also carrying out another functions such as a pda or cellular telephone according to an embodiment the enhanced processing power is used for an additional function an embodiment is described with reference to the flowchart of fig2 which may be executed in any of the processors shown or described herein this embodiment is intended to be used with a device application which signals a user that an u201c event u201d has occurred for example when used in a cellular telephone embodiment the u201c event u201d may be an incoming calls such as a ring tone in a conventional cellular telephone in a pda the event may represent an appointment or other reminder for a user a computer may signal the user about different events including ring tones incoming faxes reminders and others according to this embodiment the information from the.