Operation Gadget
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Wireless Services and Handheld Applications to Help You Follow the Tour de France
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few Operation Gadget readers have asked for pointers to mobile resources to help Tour de France fans follow the stages while they are at work. Here’s our list: Mobile-friendly Websites Yahoo! Cycling BBC Sport / Cycling Eurosport Cycling SMS USA Outdoor Life Network Stage Results, subscribe at http://ww2.olntv.com/OLN-wireless-tdf04.asp PalmOS Software…
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Missing the French Language TV Graphics on the Tour de France
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the big differences between Outdoor Life Network’s coverage of the Tour de France this year and last is the complete absence of any on-screen graphics in the French language. The momentary appearence of graphics saying things like “Tete de Course”, “etape”, and “l’arrivee a 10km” didn’t take anything away…
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Verizon Reportedly Planning to Roll Out palmOne Treo 600
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of the other gadget-oriented blogs are reporting that Verizon Wireless is planning to release the palmOne Treo 600 for use on its network. It looks like the consensus is that an announcement from Verizon is probably going to take place soon. The way some people talk about this handheld…
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Konica Minolta Dimage Z2: A Nice 4MP Digital Camera, Superceded After 6 Months?
Reading Time: < 1 minutePhotographyBLOG reported that Konica Minolta is about to announce the Dimage Z3, a new mid-priced digital camera with a 12x optical zoom. The site also reports that Konica Minolta is now releasing new digital cameras that theoretically obsolete the existing units every six months. What’s an Operation Gadget reader to do?…
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Perplexed by a Presta Bike Tire Valve
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs you know, the other day I got a set of Mavic CrossLand wheels for my late model mountain bike. The CrossLand wheels are designed for Presta-valved tubes (or tubeless tires). Up to now, I had more conventional American wheels on my bike, which meant I was using Schrader-valved tubes. (I…
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Plugins to Improve Mozilla and Firefox Recommended by Wired News
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLots of people are recommending that Microsoft Windows users stop using the Internet Explorer browser. If you’ve downloaded Mozilla or Firefox, you may have noticed that the user experience is a bit less refined than in the IE environment. Wired News has published an article recommending a number of plugins for…
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Revised Team Time Trial Rules Disproportionately Hurt Gilberto Simoni and Team Saeco
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you are following the Tour de France, you probably heard about the revised Team Time Trial rules long before the Tour started. Originally, I understood that a team’s losses would be limited to three minutes relative to the winning team’s finish time. If this had been the case, I would have…
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New Category Begun for Stories about the 2004 Tour de France
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOperation Gadget is getting a healthy traffic boost from the articles I’ve written about the technology behind the Tour de France. So, I decided to create a new category called “2004 Tour de France” to hold them all. You can find the category archive at: http://www.operationgadget.com/2004_tour_de_france/index.html I went back through the…
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Tyler Hamilton Foundation Sponsors Tour de France Stage 13 on the Big Screen
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today, I learned that the Tyler Hamilton Foundation will be hosting a special closed circuit presentation of Tour de France Stage 13 on Saturday, July 17, at movie theaters across the United States. These events will benefit the charities associated with the THF, Multiple Sclerosis and Junior Cycling. Tickets are…