Operation Gadget

Month: December 2004

  • Bloglines is Changing My Life

    Reading Time: 2 minutesDave’s Bloglines Account in action: Click on the screen shot for a more detailed image. Can any website make a person 100-percent more productive in their day-to-day tasks? If that person is a heavy duty weblogger and the site being talked about is Bloglines.com, the answer is yes. Over the weekend, I…

  • iPod Year in Review Published by iPodLounge

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you needed any further indication that the iPod and the iPod mini are the epitome of the portable audio market, look no further than The iPod Year in Review 2004 article on iPodLounge. The article reviews the tremendous launch of the iPod mini— so successful that the international rollout had…

  • Treonauts Explains How to Stream Audio on Your Treo with Pocket Tunes 3.0

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s a nice article on Treonauts.com by Jonathan Greene describing how to stream audio on your Treo using Pocket Tunes 3.0. This is pretty cutting edge stuff, including information about finding audio streams that are appropriate for the speed of the Treo data connections and a step-by-step guide to playing a…

  • Good Hands-on Review of the Motorola RAZR V3 at Engadget

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDan Wu of Engadget is one of the early adopters who have already purchased a Motorola RAZR V3 for use on Cingular Wireless. He thinks the RAZR V3 is as cool as it appears in the Cingular ads featuring it, although he didn’t realize that it was wider than his Nokia…

  • Kodak EasyShare CX7330 Competes Mainly on Price

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJoshua Waller of DigiCam Reviews published new review of the Kodak EasyShare CX7330 3-Megapixel Digital Camera. The CX7330 has a 3x optical zoom lens and a 1.6-inch color TFT screen. It has 16-Megabytes of flash memory built in and takes a SecureDigital card for additional storage. The review has a number…

  • Answers to Common Questions about LiveStrong Yellow Wristband Orders and Shipments

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI answer about 100 questions a week from Operation Gadget readers about the LiveStrong Program of the Lance Armstrong Foundation. I don’t normally post the questions and my answers because of the huge amount of text they would add to the bottom of the articles where readers leave their comments. However, I…

  • Photoxels Reviews Canon Powershot S1 IS

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s a nice nice review of the Canon PowerShot S1 IS up on Photoexels.com. I talked about the Powershot S1 IS on Operation Gadget back in September and this review validates my thoughts about it. The reviewer places this camera in the “Beginner to Serious Amateur” category and tells you what…

  • How Glenn Fleishman Consolidated His Telecom Bills and Saved Money

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteGlenn Fleishman published a complete explanation of his effort to consolidate the telecommunications services he uses. His intent was to minimize his costs. He takes advantage of several Cingular Wireless services (FastForward call forwarding services and the FamilyTalk 850 billing plan), Vonage’s $25 per month Premium Unimited VOIP service, and Skype’s…

  • November 29 – December 5, 2004 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of December 2004. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…