Operation Gadget
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March 7 – 13, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the second week of March 2005. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…
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Happy Birthday, Emma!
Reading Time: 2 minutesEmma Howson was born on Friday at a hospital in New Jersey. Everyone’s very happy. [ Photo: Kathleen Aiello ] Emma Howson was born on Friday afternoon in a nearby hospital. Emma was 7 pounds, six ounces, and 21 3/4 inches long. My sister Julie and Emma are doing fine. Many friends…
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Away for a Bit
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just received a call from my brother in law. He said that my sister has gone into labor with her first baby. I expect blogging to be infrequent for a few days.
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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…
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Siemens Demonstrates Runster, Prototype Mobile Music Application for Exercise
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGizmodo reports that Siemens demonstrated an application called Runster that varies the tempo of music played on a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone based on how quickly the user moves. The idea is to allow the user to listen to songs that are appropriate to the intensity of his or her exercise. The…
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Driver Dies in Alabama While Composing a Text Message on His Mobile Phone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Montgomery Advertiser reports that a 26-year old pickup truck driver from Tennessee was ejected from his vehicle while composing a text message. The accident occurred on Interstate 65 outside of Athens, Alabama. Investigators said that the driver lost control of his truck, which overturned on its way down an embankment.…
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Users Hack Together a Questionable ROM Patch for the H-P iPAQ h6315
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m testing a Hewlett-Packard iPAQ h6315 with service from T-Mobile USA. Overall, I’ve had a very good experience, but I have run into a glitch or two. One problems I’ve seen is that the mobile phone component of the iPAQ will occasionally disconnect itself from the mobile phone network when it…
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Sprint May Issue Update for Treo 650 Next Week
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTreoCentral reported that unnamed sources expect Sprint PCS to issue a software update for the Treo 650 next week. The features expected to be included are: fixes for voice breakup and muting problems, patches previously issued for Bluetooth devices like car kits, improvement of non-volatile memory management, improvements to VersaMail. This…