Operation Gadget

Category: Useful Web Sites

  • Gadget Links: Still No New MacBook Pro Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutesApple introduces Aperture 2.0 on MacNN: “Apple on Tuesday released Aperture 2.0, a major revision of the company’s professional photo editing and management application. The upgrade brings in a new, sleeker user interface that allows users to flip between Browser and Viewer modes with a single key press and a heads-up display…

  • Gadget Links: No Time to Play Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutesTop 7 Web Applications for Sending Large Files on Geekpreneur: “If you’ve ever had to send a large file to someone, you know the hardships that arise. Email services keep strict limits on attachment sizes. What’s more is that it’s often hard to send more than one attachment at a time. This…

  • In Memory of Sheldon Brown

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI never met Sheldon Brown, but I learned a great deal from him. Sheldon developed a website, SheldonBrown.com, that had an incredible amount of technical information about bicycles and cycling. If I Googled for some information about one of my bikes, I often ended up consulting his site. Sheldon passed away…

  • Gadget Links: Freakout 2008 Edition

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRPI Plays Princeton tonight in the 31st Annual Big Red Freakout. RPI needs the win. In other news, the White beat the Red in the Alumni Game 9-8. Kipkay’s Video Tips & Tricks on Instructables: “Here are 5 easy and cheap tricks for anyone who uses a camcorder. Total cost for…

  • Lance Armstrong Foundation to Launch Fitness-Related LiveStrong Website

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Associated Press is reporting that the Lance Armstrong Foundation will extend the LiveStrong brand to a for-profit fitness-related website. The website will be called LiveStrong.com. The press release announcing LiveStrong.com says that the site will be launched in conjunction with Demand Media, a company that runs vertical market social networking…

  • How Leo Laporte and Scott Bourne Get Such Great Sound on Their Podcasts

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am a big fan of This Week in Tech, MacBreak Weekly, and The Apple Phone Show. They are all excellent podcasts that are have very high production standards. What I’m most impressed with is the sound quality of each of these shows. I think that Leo Laporte, the host of…

  • TdFwiki.com Centralizes a Lot of Information for Tour de France Fans

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of Frank Steele’s projects for this year’s Tour de France is TdFwiki.com, a wiki specifically about the Tour. A lot of the information that’s been published so far is helpful to Tour fans who are following the race on TV or the Internet. The information that’s been published so far…

  • Using Twitter to Follow the Tour de France

    Reading Time: 3 minutesNote: This article was published in 2007. For the latest about how to use Twitter to follow the Tour de France, read TDFblog Publishes Comprehensive List of Pro Cyclists Who Use Twitter on this website. This past week I started using Twitter to follow the live action during stages of The Tour…

  • Podcasts That Can Help You Follow the Tour de France

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m spending more time at work during the 2007 Tour de France than I am watching the coverage on Versus. For this reason, I have become a voracious consumer of non-TV information about the Tour. One of the things I’ve been doing is grabbing Tour de France-specific podcasts from iTunes and listening…