Operation Gadget

Category: Portable Video

  • Gadget Links: Freakout 2008 Edition

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRPI Plays Princeton tonight in the 31st Annual Big Red Freakout. RPI needs the win. In other news, the White beat the Red in the Alumni Game 9-8. Kipkay’s Video Tips & Tricks on Instructables: “Here are 5 easy and cheap tricks for anyone who uses a camcorder. Total cost for…

  • 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…

  • Getting “The Yule Log” onto My iPhone

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI grew up in Denville, New Jersey, a small town about forty miles west of New York City. On Christmas Eve, WPIX, television channel 11 in New York City aired a program they simply called “The Yule Log”. This program was a three hour film loop showing a crackling fire in a…

  • 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…

  • NBC’s Videos Leaves iTunes for Amazon.com’s Unbox

    Reading Time: 2 minutesPVRblog pointed out that NBC has decided to pull its programming out of iTunes and move it to Amazon.com Unbox, a fairly new service from Amazon.com that competes with iTunes for video download sales. I think this is a mistake on NBC Universal’s part, and it has little to do with the…

  • I’m Planning to Use the iPhone to Review Ice Hockey Rule Changes

    Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery year or two, the hockey organizations for whom I officiate go through rule change cycles. USA Hockey, the major organizing body of amateur ice hockey in the United States, is changing their rules this year. The National Collegiate Athletic Association changes their ice hockey rules every year. Even organizations like The…

  • I Got My iPhone Yesterday, Maybe It Will Work Today

    Reading Time: 7 minutesIt was possible to buy either iPhone model last night in Central New Jersey. My iPhone moments after I purchased it at the Freehold, NJ Apple Store on June 29. See more photos of my iPhone in my Flickr photostream. I bought mine at the Apple Store at the Freehold Raceway Mall…