Operation Gadget

Month: April 2004

  • Rob Galbraith Provides an Inside Look at Sports Illustrated’s Digital Photo Workflow

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRob Galbraith Digital Photography Insights recently published an outstanding expose of Sports Illustrated’s Digital Workflow. Eamon Hickey got to watch as the photo editors from SI poured the photos that they took at Super Bowl XXXVIII and he’s captured tons of interesting details. No hobbyist has the resources to do what…

  • One Man’s Monthly GPRS Usage with a Treo 600

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently Craig Froehle discussed his Monthly GPRS Usage on a palmOne Treo 600. In his first month with the device, he used 27 Megabytes as measured by his T-Mobile bill. Craig called upon readers of GearBits to tell how much GPRS service they use by posting a comment in response to…

  • Hands High Offers Wireless File Access Software for PalmOS

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHands High Software has developed a $29.95 utility called WiFile that allows PalmOS users with wireless network support to access files on Windows, MacOS, and Samba-compatible file servers. WiFile makes use of the SMB/CIFS protocols to browse and manipulate shared directories. This is a nifty little utility that apparently began life…

  • “Linux Unwired” Finally Ships from O’Reilly

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteBack in January, I mentioned that Linux Unwired was just about ready to ship from O’Reilly and Associates. It turned out that Amazon.com‘s product availability information was wrong, and this book just came out. You can get it now through Amazon and many other booksellers. If you followed the progress of…

  • Cingular and AT&T Wireless Report GSM Network Improvements

    Reading Time: < 1 minutePhoneScoop posted an article about the recent announcements by Cingular and AT&T Wireless touting GSM infrastructure improvements. This is a good step, but I am still upset about the way the transition to GSM 850 is being handled. For instance, when AT&T Wireless announced GSM America, the release said: During the…

  • Studios Complain about Piracy While Raking in Money from DVDs

    Reading Time: 2 minutesAn article in the New York Times today documents the huge profits that movie studios are generating from the rental and sale of DVDs. According to the article: Not since the advent of the videocassette in the mid-1980’s has the movie industry enjoyed such a windfall from a new product. And just…

  • Are Gadgets Shipped in the USA Inferior to Those Shipped Elsewhere?

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFazal Majid asked an important question on Saturday in an entry on his weblog entitled Are Americans becoming second-class consumers? He cites several situations where manufacturers shipped products with the same name in two different markets, but the U.S. version had fewer features or lower quality components than the equivalent product…

  • Pocket RSS 1.3 Reviewed by Pocket PC Thoughts

    Reading Time: < 1 minutePocket RSS is one of the RSS aggregators for the Pocket PC platform. Ed Hansberry of Pocket PC Thoughts wrote a good summary of the new features and added several screenshots to provide a sense of what it’s like to use the program. This is the latest in a series of…

  • San Jose Sharks Employing Digital Video on Players’ Bench

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWired News reports that the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League are the first U.S. professional sports team to use digital video technology on the players’ bench during official games. The Sharks are using XOSketch, a Tablet PC-based wireless video playback and telestration tool from XOS Technology. Wired News…