Operation Gadget
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NBC Sports Tour de France Live is Worth $14.99
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor the 100th Anniversary of the Tour de France, NBC Sports has released Tour de France Live, the latest version of their iPhone and iPad app for mobile viewing. In this article, I’m going to explain several of the features that make this iOS app worth $14.99, and how I get as…
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Ted King Should Still Be Riding in the Tour de France
Reading Time: 2 minutesCannondale Pro Cycling team rider Ted King was eliminated from the Tour de France yesterday. This is the result of his performance in the Stage 4 Team Time Trial. He finished in 32 minutes 32.60 seconds (32:32.60). He apparently had to finish in 32:25 in order to stay in the race, because of a…
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Operation Gadget Photo Archives Moving to Flickr
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve always loved Flickr, and I’ve finally found a way to move the Operation Gadget photo archives into Flickr so that more people can see them. Since we are coming up on the tenth anniversary of Operation Gadget, we’re beginning with the photos from this site’s early days: The 2004 Tour…
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Activating WatchESPN on AppleTV
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning, Apple announced that HBO GO and WatchESPN have been made available as services on AppleTV. I had a few minutes to spare, so I decided to update my AppleTV, see how quickly I could activate WatchESPN, and get an idea how how the user experience differed from activation on the…
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The New Flickr UI Is Great, But News-Related Photo Search Isn’t
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYahoo announced a new user interface for Flickr today that is a huge improvement. Kudos to them. I am a bigger Flickr fan than most people know. What concerns me is that Flickr’s search hasn’t improved as much as the rest of the UI. What I was hoping was that when…
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Expansion of NHL Outdoor Games Confirmed; Predicted Here in 2008
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou may have seen that the NHL announced two outdoor hockey games at Yankee Stadium next season, including the game between the New Jersey Devils and the New York Rangers scheduled for Sunday, January 26, 2014, and a game between the New York Islanders and the Rangers on Wednesday, January 29. Way…
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Paris-Roubaix Airing on NBC Sports Network on Sunday Morning, April 7, 2013
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today Phil Liggett reminded me that Paris-Roubaix is airing tomorrow morning on NBC Sports Network: Live NBCSN coverage of Paris Roubaix presented by @compcyclist & expanded to 3hrs.This Sunday 8am – 11am et on NBCSN — Phil Liggett (@PhilLiggett) April 6, 2013 I’ll be watching. But the question will be,…
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Is There an App Like PaintCode for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today, John Gruber at Daring Fireball pointed out a recently released app in the MacOS X App Store called PaintCode (on the Web, in the App Store). As the PaintCode website says, “PaintCode is a vector drawing app that generates Objective-C code in real time.” This is a fantastic idea, I’d…
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Great iOS Application for Evaluating and Managing Sports Concussions
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy wife, Kathleen Aiello, MD, recently launched a website called PedsApps.com which covers iPhone and iPad applications that are of interest to Pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and other care providers, as well as to the parents of their patients. The most interesting article she’s written so far is a review of The Concussion…