Operation Gadget

Category: Software

  • Download.com Publishes Handy Firefox Optimization Tips

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDownload.com recently published Optimizing Firefox, a special section loaded with tips on how to improve the performance of Firefox. I found a lot of information about Firefox in it that I didn’t know. For instance: Download performance can be improved by deleting the record of old downloads from the Download Manager.…

  • Garmin Edge 305HR+ Will Give Polar a Ride for Its Cycling Computer Money

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor years I’ve been a big Polar heart rate monitor fan. My Polar S-725x rides on the handlebars of my Trek 1500 everyday. But, recently, I’ve been looking at the Garmin Edge 305HR+ and I really think that it has a lot of potential as an alternative to pure cycling computers…

  • Governments Making Ad Hoc Changes to Their Time Zones Create Their Own Mini-Y2K Problems

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteBoing Boing has done a nice job of covering the chaos that’s taking place around the switch to or from Daylight Savings Time (also known as “Summer Time”) in some parts of the world. Earlier today, they pointed out that Indiana has decided to adopt DST uniformly this year. One minor…

  • Polar Precision Performance Software Gets Another Update

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJanus Sandsgaard of Machine Culture emailed me on Friday to point out that Polar Precision Performance Software has been updated to add the following new features: Double-clicking on day row opens the Diary to Daily details page. Week count extended to max. 20 (Calendar Properties – General – Number of Weeks)…

  • Marketshare of Treo 650 and 700 Grew as a Result of BlackBerry Patent Concerns

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Wall Street Journal reported that Palm saw marketshare growth for its Treo 650 and 700 series mobile phones as a result of the patent dispute between Research in Motion, the manufacturer of BlackBerry handheld devices, and NTP, Inc., a patent holding company based in Arlington, VA. According to the article: ……

  • Leveraging The Power and Security of UNIX Tools as a Windows or Mac User

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve seen a couple of really good tutorials on the proper use of UNIX power tools recently that I wanted to bring to the attention of Operation Gadget readers: Mastering Wget from Lifehacker.com: “… A versatile, old school Unix program called Wget is a highly hackable, handy little tool that can…

  • Windows Vista to Be Delayed Until January 2007

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft will delay the general release of Windows Vista until January 2007. According to the article, “Mr. Allchin {co-president of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services Division} said that the major reason for this delay — which amounts to several weeks beyond the original expected launch date…

  • Sudoku Games Popular with People Who Like Math

    Reading Time: 1 minuteWe have a number of people who like math in our family, so Kathleen and I were pleased to discover Sudoku last week when we were shopping for Christmas gifts. Wikipedia says that Sudoku is a Japanese logic-based numeric placement puzzle which reportedly became popular in 1985 but only broke out to…

  • Pro-level Windows Audio Editing Tools Discussion Added to Operation Gadget

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the hottest stories I’ve ever written for Operation Gadget is What Alternatives to Garage Band Exist on Windows?. I originally wrote this article in March 2004 and I’ve updated it at least three times because of feedback from our readers. I just added a professional level audio editing tools…