Category: Useful Web Sites
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Bloglines is Changing My Life
Reading Time: 2 minutesDave’s Bloglines Account in action: Click on the screen shot for a more detailed image. Can any website make a person 100-percent more productive in their day-to-day tasks? If that person is a heavy duty weblogger and the site being talked about is Bloglines.com, the answer is yes. Over the weekend, I…
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Perfect Timing for Today’s Training Ride, Courtesy of the National Weather Service
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe National Weather Service got the forecast for Central New Jersey exactly right today. It called for rain beginning at around midday, so I got my cold weather gear out and hit the road between 10:00 and 10:30am for a 14-mile ride on my mountain bike. It took me about 54…
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Reader Points Out Website with Historical Info about Atari Video Game Systems
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOperation Gadget reader Chris Sansom wrote: I am VERY excited to get the ‘flashback’ Atari {7800}, it sounds very fun. In your article Atari Bringing Back the 7800 Console for the Holidays with Atari Flashback (Gaming Gadgets 9/9/04) you characterized the {7800} as Atari’s “second generation” gaming system. That designation should…
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Wall Street Journal Personal Technology Column Available via RSS
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Wall Street Journal is now syndicating its headlines via the RSS file format. This means that you can use an RSS aggregator to monitor the publication for newly published articles. Operation Gadget has used Personal Technology and other columns by Walter Mossberg as sources for a long time. So, we…
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Translating Tour de France News in Major Non-English Publications
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the techniques I’ve relied on this year while watching the Tour de France is reading non-English publications with the assistance of Google Language Tools. As a result, I’ve been able to read articles that appear in L’Equipe, Le Monde, Marca, and Gazzetta dello Sport, all major print publications written…
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“The Paceline” is About the Only Tactical Error that the USPS Team is Committing
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSeveral weeks ago, Lance Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team launched a new fan club site called The Paceline. This was promoted on LanceArmstrong.com, and I quickly found out that the Paceline site was: membership-based (you have to provide personal information), and fee-based (you have to pay a fee…
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Phillip Torreone Consolidates His Fitness Technology Resources into “/run”
Reading Time: < 1 minutePhillip Torreone, the guy behind The Geek Gym, has consolidated most of his fitness technology information into a site called /run. He’s done a lot of interesting research on fitness gadgets, and I think his site is definitely worth putting in your RSS aggregator. It’s going in mine right now.
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NJ Motorist Uses On-line Registration to Avoid Tow-away
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn Friday, the Home News Tribune reported that a Jersey City man avoided having his car impounded by renewing his auto registration after having been pulled over. According to the article, “Using the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission’s online registration, {Sean} Leach, 36, got his car renewed while patrolman Jason Zier…
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MobileWhack Offers Tips to Maximize Value of Your Gadgets
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRael Dornfest has started MobileWhack, a site that’s “about squeezing every last ounce of mobility out of your mobile device.” He is joined by Brian Jepson, Nat Torkington, and Emory Lundberg, and Marc Hedlund in this effort. It seems like they are trying to do a website devoted to the content…