Operation Gadget

Category: Laptops & PCs

  • Filing a Claim to Recover Part of the DRAM Settlement

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteBack in the late 1990s and the first few years of the 2000s, I bought thousands of dollars of desktop computers, printers, servers, and handheld electronics. So I am one of the people who should be able to claim a share of the settlement in the DRAM Antitrust Litigation. If you…

  • AirCell Gogo Successfully Used for a VoIP Call on a Transcontinental Flight

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI haven’t really talked about AirCell or its Gogo inflight Internet access service since it first became available on American Airlines. But Andy Abramson turned me on to a little experiment with the service that he and Laptop Magazine’s Joanna Stern did yesterday that is absolutely worthy of mention. Andy reports that…

  • A Solution for iPhone Photo Saving Problems

    Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the few nagging problems I’ve experienced with my iPhone is a photo saving problem. This has been described in several different ways by other iPhone users out on the Internet: iPhone “disappearing photos” bug experienced by Jeffrey Zeldman back in November 2007. iPhone Camera Problems: Blank White Thumbnails mentioned in…

  • Why Tethering an iPhone 3G to a Laptop Doesn’t Make Sense

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s been a lot of discussion on Mac-related websites about whether the iPhone 3G should support tethering to a laptop or desktop computer. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term, Wikipedia defines tethering as follows: Tethering in cellular wireless is the connection of a non-mobile device (e.g. desktop computer,…

  • Apple Reportedly Advocated Web Development Based on SproutCore at WWDC

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve seen a several tweets and articles today stating that Apple is advocating a Javascript-based Model View Controller framework for web development called SproutCore. Reports indicate that Apple based the MobileMe web application announced at WWDC on SproutCore and provided details on the framework in sessions at the Apple World Wide Developer…

  • Buying .Mac Licenses Now to Get Access to MobileMe in July

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver on The Apple Phone Show Blog, Liana Lehua suggested that iPhone fans buy a copy of .Mac from Amazon.com now in order to access MobileMe when it goes live in July. It looks like you’ll save about $30 if you do this. The only problem is that Amazon.com itself is…

  • Sometimes Walt Mossberg is Too Polite to His Readers

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI got a bit of a kick out of the latest installment of Mossberg’s Mailbox, Do Macs Last Longer Than Windows PCs?. In it, a reader asks: Do Macs last longer than Windows PCs? I am willing to pay the additional cost for a Mac if it will last significantly longer,…

  • Gadget Links: Post Memorial Day Weekend Edition

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSixty-Six on Daring Fireball: “The idea that Apple now sells two-thirds of retail computers costing $1000 or more is simply stunning. I (along with many others) have long argued that a simplistic “overall PC market share” number has never been a good metric for gauging the Mac’s success because the “overall…

  • MacBreak Video Shows Finer Points of Quicksilver Utility for the Mac

    Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the utilities programs that veteran Mac users swear by is Quicksilver which at first glance appears to be a keyboard-based application launcher. It turns out that QuickSilver can be used for a great deal more than application launching, but a lot of the productivity that you can gain from it…