Operation Gadget

  • Spent Yesterday Afternoon in New York City

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday’s light story volume is the result of my trip to New York City. Kathleen and I went in for the afternoon, had lunch at my favorite spot when I worked on Wall Street, Rosario’s Italian Bistro, saw the Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Center, and went out to dinner in Greenwich…

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  • Recent Reviews of Treo 650 Reflect Memory Allocation Issue

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you read a lot of technology blogs, you know that most of them have been talking about the introduction of a Non Volatile File System (NVFS) on the palmOne Treo 650 and how the memory allocation scheme in the current NVFS implementation has reduced the amount of data that can be…

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  • Bloglines is Changing My Life

    Reading Time: 2 minutesDave’s Bloglines Account in action: Click on the screen shot for a more detailed image. Can any website make a person 100-percent more productive in their day-to-day tasks? If that person is a heavy duty weblogger and the site being talked about is Bloglines.com, the answer is yes. Over the weekend, I…

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  • iPod Year in Review Published by iPodLounge

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you needed any further indication that the iPod and the iPod mini are the epitome of the portable audio market, look no further than The iPod Year in Review 2004 article on iPodLounge. The article reviews the tremendous launch of the iPod mini— so successful that the international rollout had…

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  • Treonauts Explains How to Stream Audio on Your Treo with Pocket Tunes 3.0

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s a nice article on Treonauts.com by Jonathan Greene describing how to stream audio on your Treo using Pocket Tunes 3.0. This is pretty cutting edge stuff, including information about finding audio streams that are appropriate for the speed of the Treo data connections and a step-by-step guide to playing a…

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  • Good Hands-on Review of the Motorola RAZR V3 at Engadget

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDan Wu of Engadget is one of the early adopters who have already purchased a Motorola RAZR V3 for use on Cingular Wireless. He thinks the RAZR V3 is as cool as it appears in the Cingular ads featuring it, although he didn’t realize that it was wider than his Nokia…

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  • Kodak EasyShare CX7330 Competes Mainly on Price

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJoshua Waller of DigiCam Reviews published new review of the Kodak EasyShare CX7330 3-Megapixel Digital Camera. The CX7330 has a 3x optical zoom lens and a 1.6-inch color TFT screen. It has 16-Megabytes of flash memory built in and takes a SecureDigital card for additional storage. The review has a number…

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  • Answers to Common Questions about LiveStrong Yellow Wristband Orders and Shipments

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI answer about 100 questions a week from Operation Gadget readers about the LiveStrong Program of the Lance Armstrong Foundation. I don’t normally post the questions and my answers because of the huge amount of text they would add to the bottom of the articles where readers leave their comments. However, I…

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  • Photoxels Reviews Canon Powershot S1 IS

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s a nice nice review of the Canon PowerShot S1 IS up on Photoexels.com. I talked about the Powershot S1 IS on Operation Gadget back in September and this review validates my thoughts about it. The reviewer places this camera in the “Beginner to Serious Amateur” category and tells you what…

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