Operation Gadget

Month: April 2004

  • Phillip Torreone Consolidates His Fitness Technology Resources into “/run”

    Reading Time: < 1 minutePhillip Torreone, the guy behind The Geek Gym, has consolidated most of his fitness technology information into a site called /run. He’s done a lot of interesting research on fitness gadgets, and I think his site is definitely worth putting in your RSS aggregator. It’s going in mine right now.

  • Gateway 7001 WiFi Gateway Offers Enterprise Level Security at a Low Price

    Reading Time: 2 minutesMy friend Nick Martini from GCF has been reading about my new home office wireless network and asked, “What kind of access point should we get for our office?” As is the case with a lot of small and mid-sized businesses, he’d like more security and accountability than you can normally get…

  • Doc Likes the Nikon Coolpix 5700

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDoc Searls recently picked up a Nikon Coolpix 5700 and likes it. He says: In my CES Report, I said the digital camera I found myself liking best was the Nikon Coolpix 5700. Well, a few days ago I got one…. I love the high quality of its photos, its materials…

  • TidBITS Publishes an Excellent Article on Wireless Security Need Assessment

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTidBITS recently published an article by Adam Engst, the co-author of The Wireless Networking Starter Kit about assessing the need for security on your home wireless network…. This is a thoughtfully written article that’s worth passing along to people who just plugged in their WiFi router, configured it, and forgot about…

  • Cingular Delivering Account Info via SMS

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier this week, Cingular rolled out Star Services, a simple mechanism to allow its customers to get account information sent to them via SMS. With Star Services, Cingular customers can check their: account balance by dialing *BAL# and minutes used by dialing *MIN#. They can also make one time account payments…

  • Verizon Wireless Reportedly Will Make the Treo 600 Available on its Network

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTreoCentral.com has the best screenshot from verizonwireless.com saying: Coming Soon: Treo™ 600 Smartphone But, by the time I got to http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/index.jsp, that link was gone. Treo rumor sites: should we believe you this time? After all, the Treo 610 still hasn’t happened. Update: I did a little further research and found…

  • Finally Working with Wireless Network at the Home Office

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMost Operation Gadget readers probably forgot the thread I started about setting up a wireless network in my home office. I received my router and WiFi card way back in mid-January. Today, D-Link sent me the $40 rebate that they promised when I bought the D-Link DI-624 AirPlus Xtreme G Wireless…

  • Stopped Evaluation of Life Balance, At Least for the Moment

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I was going to evaluate the Palm OS application called Life Balance from Llamagraphics. I never really got into it, initially because of the work required to rebuild my laptop after the hard disk died. Since I got it running again under Fedora…

  • Consumer Union Asks the FCC to Outlaw the Practice of Mobile Phone Handset Locking

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Consumers Union began a campaign to convince the Federal Communications Commission to ban the placement of software locks on mobile phones. The CU launched a web site called www.EscapeCellHell.org to collect petitions from mobile phone customers in order to forward them to the FCC. Janee Briesemeister, director of EscapeCellHell.org for…