Category: Productivity and Organization

  • Why MarsEdit Makes Sense for Operation Gadget

    Reading Time: 2 minutes It took me about half a day to convince myself that MarsEdit is a must have for blogging on Operation Gadget. Here’s why. Operation Gadget talks a lot about electronic gadgets, computers, and software. I often provide links to these products that point to a place where you can buy them,…

  • Trying Out MarsEdit

    Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m trying out MarsEdit, a MacOS X blogging client, for a few posts to see if it improves my productivity. It’s been recommended by higher beings in the blogosphere like Andy Abramson and John Gruber— two people whose blogs I read every day. I really want to see whether a…

  • Check Out Alltop.com

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Guy Kawaski, Will Mayall, and the rest of the folks at Nononina have built a new topic-based RSS aggregator called Alltop. There idea is to display the latest five stories from thirty or more blogs in each topic area. You can drill down to the topic areas that you are…

  • Gadget Links: Home Alone Edition

    Reading Time: < 1 minute An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up on NYTimes.com: “The push-up is the ultimate barometer of fitness. It tests the whole body, engaging muscle groups in the arms, chest, abdomen, hips and legs. It requires the body to be taut like a plank with toes and palms on the…

  • Gadget Links: Stuff I Should Have Posted a While Ago Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Topeak Mini 6 on CoolTools: “This incredibly compact, bike-oriented multi-tool has five different sizes of Allen wrench plus a Phillips screwdriver head, all of which folds up into a little pod about the size of a walnut. Sometimes I’ll carry it in my pocket or toss it in shoulder bag; mostly…

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

    Reading Time: 2 minutes The 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…

  • Countdown to My MacBook Pro

    Reading Time: < 1 minute I ordered my MacBook Pro on Sunday night. It’s a build-to-order machine with a 160-Gigabyte hard drive that’s based on the 2.2-GigaHertz Core 2 Duo, Santa Rosa-based MacBook Pro. If I get the machine that’s currently on the market, it will be 194-percent faster than my current Dell Latitude C810,…

  • Gadget Links: 8 Days to Choose Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Apple Releases a New “Get a Mac” Ad Co-starring a Football Referee on Apple.com: Pretty good attention to detail. The referee is wearing a white hat and a uniform that is very close to that worn in many college football leagues. What I would add to this is the referee turning…

  • Unique Perspectives on the Amazon Kindle

    Reading Time: < 1 minute A 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…