Operation Gadget

Category: Portable Audio

  • “iPhone Fully Loaded” is a Must Have Book for iPhone and iPod Touch Users

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe first book I bought to try to get new ideas on how I could better leverage my iPhone as a multimedia Swiss Army Knife was iPhone Fully Loaded by Andy Ihnatko. I have been really impressed by this book because it has some really excellent tips and techniques that go beyond…

  • Apple Releases “Poll Position Remix” Game for the iPod

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier this week MacRumors reported that Apple had released the “Pole Position Remix” game for the iPhone. This is a remake of the classic Namco video game Pole Position that I played more than anyone else as a kid. The last time I talked about Pole Position on Operation Gadget was…

  • Comments on Steve Jobs’ 2008 MacWorld Expo Keynote

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI expected to be wowed by Steve Jobs’ 2008 MacWorld Expo Keynote a lot more than I actually was. However, I was doing other things while the event was going on (real work), and the products that I was most interested in (mainstream Mac laptops) didn’t get addressed in this keynote at…

  • RIAA Suing Individuals Over Ripping CDs for Personal Use

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Washington Post reported that The RIAA is arguing that ripping CDs for personal use on your iPod or other digital music player is illegal. The argument has reportedly been made in a case against Jeffrey Howell from Scottsdale, AZ. According to the article: The {RIAA’s} lawyer in the case, Ira…

  • Use Smart Playlists for Endless Combinations of Christmas Music

    Reading Time: 2 minutesKathleen and I have hundreds of Christmas songs that are part of our iTunes libraries. When we shared a 10 Gigabyte iPod, I had to move large playlists off of it to make room for the Christmas music. Now that I have my own iPhone, I was concerned that I would have…

  • Building the Ultimate Exercise Playlists

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ll probably end up doing some running around Newtown in the next few weeks. Although I’ve had quite a few college varsity and club-level games on my officiating schedule so far this year, my schedule from December 7 to January 2 is totally empty. Part of this is the nature of college…

  • 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…

  • One Million iPhones Sold in 74 Days

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m glad to hear that Apple sold its one millionth iPhone today. I think the $200 price cut will put holiday sales on the trajectory where Apple needs them to be in order to achieve the goal of 10 million iPhones in the first year on the market.

  • Apple Cuts the Price of the 8G iPhone to $399

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWow. I had no idea that Apple was planning to announce a $200 price cut on the 8-Gigabyte iPhone to $399. Since the media event ended, I’ve read a number of comments on technology blogs about how much the price of previous “hot phones” dropped in the first 90 days. The…