Operation Gadget
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Motorola V710 Features Intentionally Removed by U.S. Mobile Carrier
Reading Time: 2 minutesJonathan Zdziarski wrote an excellent article on the Motorola v710 and the features that Verizon Wireless deleted before putting it on sale. Zdziarski, who writes for Pen Computing Magazine as well as his own site, says that the key features that have been deleted are Bluetooth profiles: OBEX (Object Exchange), OPP (Object…
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Trying out a Flickr Pro Account
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlthough Operation Gadget has its own Coppermine Photo Gallery, I wanted to find a different web-based solution for casual photo sharing. I decided to give Flickr a try, uploaded a few test photos, and invited my wife, my sister-in-law, my mother-in-law, and my sister to view the photos. Anyone can have…
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Phase 2.0 of the Blogging Workstation Upgrade: Dead Pixel Society
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI got the second Samsung 770 TFT (17-inch flat panel display) for the Blogging Workstation yesterday afternoon. I installed it and found that it had quite a few dead pixels. This was not supposed to happen, since the 770 TFT was supposed to have been reconditioned by Samsung to its original…
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January 3 -9, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of January 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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How We Installed a Home Theater with DirecTV and Over-the-Air HDTV
Reading Time: 2 minutesHome Theater with HDTV: We installed a 34-inch HDTV Flat-screen CRT, an A/V receiver, a DirecTV HD receiver, a HiFi VCR, and a DVD player. See how we did it in in the Operation Gadget Photo Gallery. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] On Thursday, I installed a very nice HDTV home theater…
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Phase 1 of the Blogging Workstation Upgrade: Inside the Case
Reading Time: 2 minutesBlogging Workstation Upgrade Phase 1: Replaced the video card and added half a Gigabyte of memory. More photos in the Operation Gadget Photo Gallery. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] I guess this is upgrade week on Operation Gadget. I’m supposed to get the second 17-inch flat panel display for my Blogging Workstation…
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Cingular to Release Treo 650 Soon
Reading Time: 2 minutesSeems like everyone who spent the money to go to CES came up with the same story today: Cingular will make the Treo 650 available on their GSM 850 network in the next few weeks. Here’s how some of the blogs presented the news: Gizmodo, Cingular Treo 650 Soon “Cingular’s rebate form…
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Building a Home Theater
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI will be building a home theater today in Central New Jersey. We can’t blog it, because there is no broadband connection there, but we intend to post an article about the experience later on tonight or tomorrow morning. Update: Here are links to the how-we-did-it article and a photo album…
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Boot and Shoe Dryer from Peet Works as Advertised
Reading Time: < 1 minutePeet Shoe Dryer: The shoe dryer did the job on my skates. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] The Peet Shoe Dryer did quite a good job on my ice skates the other day. The boots of the skates were dried gently and suffered no damage. The dryer worked in complete silence,…