Operation Gadget

Category: Laptops & PCs

  • How I Fixed the Power Switch on The Blogging Workstation

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I received another sign that it’s time to buy a new computer. The Blogging Workstation that just experienced a power supply failure wouldn’t start again. When I pushed the power button, nothing happened. I pulled the front bezel off of the tower and immediately found that the positive lead on the…

  • Gadget Links: Should Have Been Yesterday’s Edition

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry in Wired: Awesome story about how the iPhone made it to market. Absolutely worth reading. The best notebook you can buy in Infoworld: “After six months of intensive, daily use of the machine, I can state now that today’s MacBook…

  • Power Supply Dies in Blogging Workstation, Days Away from MacBook Pro Purchase

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWednesday morning 6:30 A.M. There’s an eerie silence in The Home Office. Over the next 10 minutes I come to the conclusion that the power supply on The Blogging Workstation, my four year old AMD Athlon 2500XP+ ATX Tower Machine that’s the fastest PC in the house, has breathed its last.…

  • Why is Apple Announcing Hardware Upgrades Before Macworld Expo?

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteApple went ahead and announced an upgraded Mac Pro and an upgraded Xserve this morning. These announcements occurred one day after Intel announed 16 new processors based on 45nm silicon fabrication at CES. I’m a bit confused by the timing of these announcements. It makes sense to release these new machines…

  • Gadget Links: 10 Days to Choose Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIsolator- Concentration Application For Mac OS X on LifeDev: “I don’t think I have to tell this blog’s readers how hard it can be to stay on task when working on the computer. That’s why “concentration applications” are great tools to have. If you’re a mac user, check out the elegant Isolator…

  • Walter Mossberg is “Very Impressed” with the Dell XPS One

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFinally. A Windows machine that Walt Mossberg can love. Walt’s latest Personal Technology column for The Wall Street Journal talks about the Dell XPS One, a machine that has the guts and design to compete with the iMac. According to the article: Something interesting is going on at Dell. The Texas…

  • Three-Part Article on Writing a Webcam Application for the Nokia N800

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI got a Nokia N800 through the Nokia Blogger Relations Program several months ago. I found this device quite interesting, but I never had the opportunity to dig into it as deeply as I had wanted to. I started to think about it again about a week ago, when I was thinking…

  • How Lennard Zinn Got His MacBook Pro Stolen from a Locked Car at an Italian Rest Area

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just stumbled on to a sad story on VeloNews.com from bike tech columnist Lennard Zinn: Much of what I do in life is collect information about bicycle technology, and {in November} I went to the Milan bike show to do just that. But when my week-old MacBook Pro computer was…

  • Why I May Get a MacBook Pro Instead of a Mac mini

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI realize that this sounds completely insane, but Kathleen and I talked about my intention to buy a Mac mini and she said, “Maybe you should get the MacBook Pro you really want now instead of the Mac mini.” Her reasoning is essentially that the Mac mini isn’t really that cheap when…