Operation Gadget

Month: January 2005

  • Mac mini Would be a Great Addition to a Home Theater

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI was happy to see that Apple Computer announced the Mac mini series of computers yesterday at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. It’s hard to call a machine that fits in a 6.5 x 6.5 x 2-inch case a desktop computer. What should we call it? A compact computer? A digital lifestyle…

  • Motorola V710 Features Intentionally Removed by U.S. Mobile Carrier

    Reading Time: 2 minutesJonathan Zdziarski wrote an excellent article on the Motorola v710 and the features that Verizon Wireless deleted before putting it on sale. Zdziarski, who writes for Pen Computing Magazine as well as his own site, says that the key features that have been deleted are Bluetooth profiles: OBEX (Object Exchange), OPP (Object…

  • Trying out a Flickr Pro Account

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlthough Operation Gadget has its own Coppermine Photo Gallery, I wanted to find a different web-based solution for casual photo sharing. I decided to give Flickr a try, uploaded a few test photos, and invited my wife, my sister-in-law, my mother-in-law, and my sister to view the photos. Anyone can have…

  • Phase 2.0 of the Blogging Workstation Upgrade: Dead Pixel Society

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI got the second Samsung 770 TFT (17-inch flat panel display) for the Blogging Workstation yesterday afternoon. I installed it and found that it had quite a few dead pixels. This was not supposed to happen, since the 770 TFT was supposed to have been reconditioned by Samsung to its original…

  • January 3 -9, 2005 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of January 2005. 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…

  • How We Installed a Home Theater with DirecTV and Over-the-Air HDTV

    Reading Time: 2 minutesHome Theater with HDTV: We installed a 34-inch HDTV Flat-screen CRT, an A/V receiver, a DirecTV HD receiver, a HiFi VCR, and a DVD player. See how we did it in in the Operation Gadget Photo Gallery. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] On Thursday, I installed a very nice HDTV home theater…

  • Phase 1 of the Blogging Workstation Upgrade: Inside the Case

    Reading Time: 2 minutesBlogging Workstation Upgrade Phase 1: Replaced the video card and added half a Gigabyte of memory. More photos in the Operation Gadget Photo Gallery. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] I guess this is upgrade week on Operation Gadget. I’m supposed to get the second 17-inch flat panel display for my Blogging Workstation…

  • Cingular to Release Treo 650 Soon

    Reading Time: 2 minutesSeems like everyone who spent the money to go to CES came up with the same story today: Cingular will make the Treo 650 available on their GSM 850 network in the next few weeks. Here’s how some of the blogs presented the news: Gizmodo, Cingular Treo 650 Soon “Cingular’s rebate form…

  • Building a Home Theater

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI will be building a home theater today in Central New Jersey. We can’t blog it, because there is no broadband connection there, but we intend to post an article about the experience later on tonight or tomorrow morning. Update: Here are links to the how-we-did-it article and a photo album…