Category: Useful Web Sites
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Every Sport Needs a Spokesman Like Golf’s Frank Thomas
Reading Time: 2 minutes The 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…
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Operation Gadget Is Now Part of The Alltop Gadgets Page
Reading Time: < 1 minute I 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…
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“Blogger Bob” from the TSA On Testing the MacBook Air
Reading Time: < 1 minute Until 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…
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Apple Phone Show Host Saves $5750 on a New Car By Using His iPhone
Reading Time: < 1 minute Scott 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…
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You Can Follow Me on Twitter
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’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.
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Gadget Links: Holy Saturday Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutes Holy 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.…
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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…
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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…
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Great Tip to Help Figure Out If Your PC is Compatible with Popular Games
Reading Time: < 1 minute In 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…