Category: Ask Operation Gadget
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Should I Buy a Plasma HDTV to Replace My Rear Projection TV?
Reading Time: 2 minutes My friend Ralph Guarrieri has a rear-projection standard definition television, wants to upgrade to a new HDTV set, and asked me, “Which HDTV set should I buy to replace my Rear Projection TV?” Like practically everyone I talk to, he had already heard about plasma televisions and asked if I thought…
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What Reasonably Priced Earphones Can I Use to Replace My iPod Earbuds?
Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the recurring problems that Operation Gadget readers have is how to replace their iPod earbud headphones? Although some people never liked the earbuds that came with their iPod and pay big bucks to get better ones, other readers use their iPod earbuds until they fall apart, break, or…
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Map of 2005 Tour of Hope 50-Mile DC Fundraising Ride
Reading Time: 2 minutes 2005 Tour of Hope DC Fundraising Ride: This is our best guess at the 50-mile route map. I used Gmaps Pedometer to convert a cue sheet to a map. Click on the picture of the map to see the route in a Gmaps Pedometer window.[ Image: Gmaps Pedometer / Google Maps ] Bryan…
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Discovery Channel Sponsorship Strategy Hinges on Growing International Interest in Cycling
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Science of Lance Armstrong DVD is available from the Discovery Channel On-line Store. [ Photo: Discovery Channel ] Martin O’Donnell watches TV Cinq from France Television on Comcast in order to practice his French and keep up with what’s going on there. The other day he asked: Discovery Channel is getting massive…
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Which Email Client Should I Use on the Treo 650?
Reading Time: 3 minutes As I mentioned on Monday, Beth Seliga, a freelance photographer who covers pro cycling, asked me which email client to use on her new palmOne Treo 650. I had strong opinions ready when she asked this question, so I’m going to repeat them and enhance them with links for the benefit…
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How Can I Use My Pocket PC with a GPS to Get Driving Directions?
Reading Time: 2 minutes As I mentioned in an earlier article, Sammarye Lewis, co-author of the new book Tour de France for Dummies asked me how to make her H-P iPAQ h6315 work smoothly with a Garmin GPS 10 Deluxe or another handheld GPS, so that she can get directions to places along the Tour…
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HDTV Terminology Explained
Reading Time: < 1 minute After last week’s HDTV home theater installation article, Operation Gadget got a number of questions asking for an explanation of the terminology used to describe HDTV. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I thought I’d point to a few articles where much of that information already exists: Defining TV Jargon by…
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How Do I Replace a GSM Phone Inexpensively?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here’s a mobile phone question that came in yesterday that I don’t have a great answer for. Maybe some of you Operation Gadget readers can offer some suggestions? Randy Stevens wrote: Dave, May be you can help me, I�m a bit desperate at this point. My daughter dropped her Cingular phone…