Operation Gadget

Category: Miscellaneous Gadgets

  • Unique Perspectives on the Amazon Kindle

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of friends of mine asked me to what I thought of the Amazon Kindle at lunch before Thanksgiving. I said that I was aware of it, that reviews and comments from blogs that I read had been more negative than positive, but I would keep my eye out for…

  • Jeep Liberty Limited Urban Terrain Stroller Lets Adult and Baby Listen to Music from iPod

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy wife Kathleen and I got a Jeep Liberty Limited Urban Terrain Stroller at Kathleen’s baby shower a few weeks before our son Jimmy was born. Now that Jimmy is over two months old, he can support himself well enough to ride in a stroller built for a large baby or…

  • Replacing a Linux Server in the Basement with a NAS Box

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve got a five year old Linux server in the basement at the Home Office. It was state-of-the-art before 9/11: Built by one of the biggest Linux-hardware companies of the early days: VALinux (now called VA Software). Big disk capacity: 72 Gigabytes of SCSI-based hardware RAID. That was great five years ago.…

  • Personal Electronics Power Station is a Good Central Point for Charging Most Handheld Gadgets

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe other day, my brother Scott Aiello tipped me off to a device that can be used as a convenient one-stop place to charge all of your handheld devices. It’s called the Personal Electronics Power Station and it’s available from several vendors on Amazon.com. The Personal Electronics Power Station is an…

  • Successful Executives Building “Treadputers” to Work While They Exercise

    Reading Time: 2 minutesBrad Feld’s Treadputer: Venture capitalist Brad Feld added a 3.2-GHz IBM ThinkCentre to his Vision Fitness T9450HRT Treadmill. This lets him get his runs in while he’s on conference calls. [ Photo: Brad Feld ]. Brad Feld is a managing director at Mobius Venture Capital based in Boulder, Colorado. He challenges himself by running…

  • First HD DVD Players Don’t Wow the Reviewers

    Reading Time: 2 minutesMy wife Kathleen spent yesterday afternoon at our friend Jen Colangelo’s house watching The Chronicles of Narnia on Jen’s big, new plasma television. When she got home, Kathleen said the movie (which was played on a progressive-scan DVD player) looked “amazing” compared to movies on our old, analog, 480i TV. All a…

  • Why Ikea Plastis Ice Cube Trays Are Better Than the Competition

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIkea Plastis Ice Cube Tray: These rubber ice cube trays are nearly indestructible.[ Photo:Dave Aiello ]. I bought some Plastis Ice Cube Trays from Ikea a few months ago to try them as an alternative to Rubbermaid Periwinkle Ice Cube Trays. I have used the Rubbermaid trays for years in the places that my…

  • How to Listen to Race Radio at the 2006 Tour de Georgia

    Reading Time: 2 minutesKevin 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 in…

  • Celestron SkyScout Helps You Identify Over 6,000 Objects in the Night Sky

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI always had difficulty identifying stars in the night sky when I went star-gazing as a kid, so I was intrigued when I heard about the Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium— a handheld device that lets you identify 6,000 stars, planets, and constellations as they appear overhead. It has the ability to…