Operation Gadget
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iPod’s Lack of Support for WMA is Impeding Potential Microsoft Monopoly on DRM
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCNET News.com is carrying an article written by John Borland saying that the iPod undermines Microsoft’s attempt to impose its Digital Rights Management solution to copy-protect CDs. In my opinion, this is a manifestly good development, and a reason for people to choose an iPod or an iPod mini over other…
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July 5 – 11, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of July 2004. 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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Hexlet Releases HBlogger Weblogging Client for PalmOS
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHexlet LLC recently announced HBlogger, a weblogging client for PalmOS version 3.5 and higher. HBlogger supports the following blogging tools: MovableType, LiveJournal, and Blogger. I wish that my Treo 180 were working, because I’d love to download a product like this and give it a try. When I first started Operation…
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Cycling Samaritan
Reading Time: 2 minutesI set out on Saturday for my seventh consecutive day of cycling. I was planning on riding 20 miles from East Windsor to Allentown, NJ and back. This would be the longest ride I had done this season, had I made it. I had my flat tire with my new wheel set…
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Confirmation of Cingular Handset Unlock Policy for “World Phones”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDavid Efron wrote to confirm the Cingular handset unlock policy that we documented back in April: I had an exasperating set of phone calls with Cingular which finally ended in confirming what you posted regarding the unlock policy. Domestic-only phones have locks, to prevent abuse of the carrier. They claim that…
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USPS Cycling Team Officials Driving Subaru Legacy GT Wagons in the Tour de France
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSeveral publications have referred to the follow cars driven by the U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team as Subaru GT’s. I did a little bit of research and found out that the specific model is the Subaru Legacy GT or Subaru Legacy GT Limited station wagon. These are not the most popular…
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Meeting Other LiveStrong Yellow Wristband Wearers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night, I stopped in to Cranbury Pizza to pick up dinner. While I was paying, a young woman that worked there shouted, “Hey he’s got one of those wristbands too!” I looked up and saw that she had been talking to a co-worker who wears a LiveStrong yellow wristband, and…
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iPod Cycling
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week, I got back on the road to fitness. Over the last five days, I’ve done five hours of tempo riding on the open roads east of New Jersey Turnpike Exit 8A. For those of you who are not familiar with the area, I’m talking about roads in East Windsor, Washington…
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Amazon.com Now Taking Orders for Microsoft Portable Media Center Devices
Reading Time: < 1 minuteReuters reports that Amazon.com has begun taking pre-orders for Microsoft Portable Media Center devices including the Creative Labs 20 GB Zen Portable Media Center and the Samsung Yepp YH-999 20 GB Portable Media Center. Both units will cost about $500 and include 20-Gigabyte internal hard drives, bright color displays between 3.5…