Operation Gadget

Category: Peripherals

  • 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…

  • Integration Between the FiOS Actiontec Router and an AirPort Extreme Base Station Is Smooth and Easy

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteKathleen gave me an Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station for Christmas. I installed and configured it tonight while we were watching ER on our DVR. I was impressed with the improvement in the performance of our wireless network that immediately occurred when the AirPort Extreme started working. Configuration of the AirPort…

  • 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…

  • Gadget Links: Snow Fun Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutesBills return to Buffalo by bus after loss in Cleveland, The Associated Press on ESPN.com: “Mother Nature sure had it in for the Buffalo Bills this weekend.” “Bad enough that a blizzard contributed to Buffalo’s loss at Cleveland on Sunday, ending the team’s playoff chances. Then, following an unscheduled overnight stay because…

  • Replacing My iPhone Headphones and Evidence That Apple’s Supply Chain Is a Little Stretched?

    Reading Time: 2 minutesHere are the FedEx Tracking Details from the $30 Apple Store order that got shipped from China. I crushed one of my iPhone earbuds the other day in the parking lot of BJ’s Warehouse Club in Langhorne, PA. I dropped my headphones while trying to load the car during a shopping trip…

  • Jason Fried of 37 Signals Finds that Performance of Comcast DVRs Has Improved

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today, Jason Fried of the web application service provider 37 Signals reported that he had noticed an improvement in the responsiveness of the Comcast DVR thanks to the most recent software update pushed by Comcast. According to Fried: I have a Comcast DVR. It recorded on time, the menus and…

  • 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.…

  • 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…