Operation Gadget

Category: Useful Web Sites

  • Fitness-Related Applications Popping Up for Google Maps

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today my friend Maria Norton sent me the following message: Hi Dave, Hope you’re getting settled into the new place. Just wondering, have you heard about the

  • “Race to the Tour” Offers Contestants an Opportunity to Ride and Blog Along the Route of the Tour de France

    Reading Time: 2 minutesSubaru is sponsoring a website called RaceToTheTour.com where they are offering a contest with two chances for the winners to travel to France during this year’s Tour de France, ride along with a Trek Travel bike tour, meet the members of the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team, and contribute to their Race…

  • Google Disappeared for a While on Saturday Due to DNS Issue

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt around dinner time on the East Coast, my wife Kathleen called from Harrisburg, PA. She and her sister Mary planned a weekend away for the two of them and were looking for directions to a movie theater. I tried to pull up Google Maps and got a DNS error. Then…

  • Custom Sublimation Offers Custom Cycling Jerseys in Quantities as Small as Six

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI stumbled onto a website called CustomSublimation.com last night. They offer custom cycling jerseys (sleeveless, short and long-sleeves), skin suits, BMX jerseys, shorts, shells and vests, triathlon, and cross-country ski apparel. The great thing about this site, which is a division of Mt. Borah Designs, is that they allow orders as…

  • Looking for Make Magazine on the Newsstand

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMake is a new quarterly magazine about gadget modification and electronics-based hobbies from O’Reilly Media that’s mainly available at Amazon.com at the moment. I’m planning to subscribe but the subscription will not begin until Volume 2 (the second quarterly issue), so I looked for it at the Barnes & Noble in…

  • Excellent Google Maps Hacking Tutorial on Engadget

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been meaning to point out HOW-TO: Make your own annotated multimedia Google map that was published on Engadget a couple of days ago. This is a really terrific tutorial on how to make Google Maps do things that it wasn’t designed to do. The Engadget tutorial sort of takes off…

  • More Cool Info about Google Maps

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe more I look for details about how Google Maps was implemented, the more interesting stuff I find out. The latest example is the fact that Google based its mapping service on Telecontar’s Drill Down Server, a highly scalable geospatial application aimed at companies that have the skills and resources to…

  • Uncovering Some Cool Technology in Google Maps

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJohn Udell wrote an excellent piece for InfoWorld pointing out a lot of the technology behind the rendering of maps in the Google Maps service. Udell points to an article by Joel Webber that really gets into the details of how a Google Maps page is constructed. There is lots of…

  • My.T-Mobile.com Website Still Has Some Potentially Dangerous Vulnerabilities

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today, I reported on the publication of Paris Hilton’s personal information that was stored in her T-Mobile Sidekick II. I did some more research and learned that the information published today is at least similar to information that Nicolas Jacobsen stole during the period from August to October 2004. This…