Category: Ask Operation Gadget
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Why Home Automation in the Apple Ecosystem?
Reading Time: 7 minutes A couple of friends have asked, “Why is Operation Gadget’s subtitle ‘Home Automation in the Apple Ecosystem’?” I guess they’re asking, why not cover all aspects of home automation? Or perhaps they mean, why not pick Amazon.com’s ecosystem, based on the Alexa voice assistant and Ring security products? Or even Google’s…
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How Do You Find Unused FM Frequencies for iPod, Sirius, and XM FM Adapters?
Reading Time: < 1 minute A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my satisfaction with the Kensington Digital FM Transmitter and Car Charger for the iPod. I got a question back from Ryan Kelly from Haplography: Just curious – which Philly frequencies have you found work best? My response was: Sorry for the delay…
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How To Receive HDTV Without Subscribing to Cable
Reading Time: 2 minutes Kathleen and I had lunch with our friend Jennifer Colangelo over the weekend. She is is the proud owner of a huge, new plasma HDTV set that she mainly uses to watch DVDs and play games on her Xbox 360. As we discussed her new TV, I found out that she…
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How to Listen to Race Radio at the 2006 Tour de Georgia
Reading Time: 2 minutes Kevin Ward asked: Do you have any ideas on listening to the “Radio Tour” Channel, 450.8875 MHz at the Ford Tour de Georgia? I am going to try a NASCAR type scanner from Radio Shack. The scanner I have will also decode the CTCSS quiet code so that I can listen…
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Which Memory Card Should I Get for My New Digital Camera?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This Chistmas, my father and my sister-in-law both received digital cameras as gifts. My father got a 5-Megapixel Nikon Coolpix 5600 and my sister-in-law got the 4-Megapixel Nikon Coolpix 4600. This was an interesting coincidence, because the cameras were purchased independently by different people. In my sister-in-law Mary’s case, she received…
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Leapster Titles That Play on TV Using the L-Max
Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the questions that Operation Gadget readers have about the Leapster L-Max learning game system is which Leapster games play on the television with the L-Max?. Here’s a list of games that are known to work on your TV: Leapster Kindergarten, Leapster 1st Grade, Leapster 2nd Grade, Leapster Batman,…
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Why Are The Operation Gadget Sidebars Out of Alignment?
Reading Time: < 1 minute A few Operation Gadget readers have written since we redesigned our pages to point out that the page sidebars are out of alignment on their browsers. Most of the people who are experiencing this are using Firefox 1.07 or earlier. These alignment problems are fixed in Firefox 1.5. Firefox 1.5…
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DirecTiVo Owners Have a Pretty Simple Upgrade Option to Get Series 2 Features
Reading Time: 3 minutes On Thanksgiving, my cousin Brian Lynch and I exchanged emails about our dilemma as owners of DirecTV Series 2 digital video recorders. Brian said: My DirecTV Tivo has two USB ports in the back. The instruction book says the ports are for “future use”. Do you think I can hook a…
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Time to Replace That Windows 98 PC
Reading Time: 2 minutes Earlier today Claude Sanford wrote to me with the following questions: I have a computer running windows 98 that has been giving me a lot of trouble…freezing up, taking forever to crankup, etc. I am on Road runner and I feel like its all the spy programs and firewall stuff that…