Operation Gadget
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Meaningless Comments
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the weekend and continuing today, Operation Gadget was visited by some people that try to place Comment SPAM on Movable Type websites. I am trying not to feel flattered, but, getting SPAM permanently on to this site would probably ensure that a number of people would see it. We are…
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May 10 – 16, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the second week of May 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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Trying to Tune Apache
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m trying to improve the responsiveness of Operation Gadget so that the site’s larger pages load faster. Today, I decreased the Apache “Timeout” parameter and turned on “KeepAlive”, which for some reason was never enabled. If you are seeing an improvement when you are looking at the Mobile Phones or Fitness…
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Upcoming Philips Nike MP3 Player Aimed at Runners
Reading Time: 2 minutesDavid Carnoy reviews the prototype Philips Nike MP3Run, a 256-Megabyte flash memory-based MP3 player with a number of interesting extras. This MP3 player reportedly will incorporate a Bluetooth-enabled version of the speed and distance sensor used in products like the Nike Triax Elite, so that runners and walkers can gather statistics about…
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Buy an Inexpensive Reprogrammable DVD Player to Play European DVDs
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy sister and her husband returned from their honeymoon about two weeks ago. They spent part of their trip in Prague and brought home a comercially-bought DVD with highlights of the city. The problem is that the DVD is Region 2 encoded. This means it can be played on DVD players sold…
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Connecting the Nokia 6600 to a Late Model PC Using Bluetooth
Reading Time: 2 minutesRegular Operation Gadget readers know that I recently picked up a Nokia 6600 to do a long term evaluation. One of the things I discovered after receiving the 6600 is that it syncs to a PC like other smartphones, but it does it without wires. You need to use infa-red or Bluetooth…
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New Release of Nike Triax Elite Software Reportedly Improves Syncing with OS X
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the biggest issues with the Nike Triax Elite Heart Rate Monitor and Speed/Distance Monitor has been the difficulty owners had uploading exercise data from the watch to computers running the Apple Macintosh OS X operating system. A Macintosh user reports that a new release of the Triax Elite software…
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GPS Visualizer is a Platform-Independent Alternative for Visualizing Runs and Rides
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo weeks ago, I used USAPhotoMaps to map a 23.5-mile bike ride through Central New Jersey that I rode to test my new Garmin Forerunner 201. The idea for this ride came from the example set by Phillip Torreone in his howto article on Engadget. Since I did this I’ve received…
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More About the iPAQ that NASA Chose for Use in Space
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week NASA announced that it had selected the HP iPAQ h5550 for use aboard its spacecraft and the International Space Station. According to a report on infoSync World, NASA chose this iPAQ because it was one of the few handhelds that could pass its flight certification tests with almost no modification.…