Category: Useful Web Sites

  • Every Sport Needs a Spokesman Like Golf’s Frank Thomas

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Wall Street Journal’s Golf Journal column carried an a great interview with Frank Thomas, the former technical director of the U.S. Golf Association (USGA). Thomas makes some great points about the impracticality of state-of-the-art golf technology to the grassroots golfer. The quote that jumped off the page for me was this:…

  • Operation Gadget Is Now Part of The Alltop Gadgets Page

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI got an email from Guy Kawasaki last night telling me that Operation Gadget has been added to the Alltop Gadgets page. What a great terrific break for us! Alltop is the new weblog aggregation site that its owners call “the digital magazine rack” of the Internet. Operation Gadget headlines now…

  • “Blogger Bob” from the TSA On Testing the MacBook Air

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteUntil I listened to this week’s edition of This Week in Tech I had no idea that the Transportation Safety Administration had a blog called Evolution of Security, that Blogger Bob was one of the authors, or that they had posted a reassuring video of the process they used to test…

  • Apple Phone Show Host Saves $5750 on a New Car By Using His iPhone

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteScott Bourne, the host of The Apple Phone Show, saved $5750 on a new car that he just purchased by using his iPhone during the negotiation. It looks like the most productive uses of the iPhone were recalling email correspondence that had occurred between him and the dealership, and verifying the…

  • You Can Follow Me on Twitter

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve decided to spend a few moments on Twitter from time to time. If you want to follow me, please do so at https://twitter.com/daiello. You’ll probably see more tweets than updates to my Facebook profile.

  • Gadget Links: Holy Saturday Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutesHoly Saturday on Wikipedia: Lots of names exist for the day before Easter. I had no idea that so much thought had been put into this day over the years. Sorry if you consider this a sacrilege. Sk*rt: “Digg for Chicks” on How to Change the World (blog.GuyKawasaki.com): “I love Sk*rt. You…

  • Check Out Alltop.com

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteGuy 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 most…

  • Gadget Links: Home Alone Edition

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn 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 floor.…

  • Great Tip to Help Figure Out If Your PC is Compatible with Popular Games

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn Episode 45 of Tekzilla Daily, Patrick Norton pointed out a website called System Requirements Lab that can help you determine if your PC has the minimum or recommended hardware and software necessary to run dozens of popular PC games. I tried this myself and the way it works is to…