Operation Gadget
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How to Build a Steadicam-like Attachment for Your DV Camera for $14
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJohnny Chung Lee, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, designed an attachment for a digital video camera which functions like a Steadicam camera stabilizing system. The most interesting aspect of Lee’s design is that he says it can be assembled from parts available at a hardware store for about $14.00.…
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McDonald’s Chooses Wayport as Nationwide WiFi Provider
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCNET News.com reports that McDonald’s has chosen Wayport to provide WiFi service in its U.S. restaurants. They intend to make the service available in 3,000 restaurants before the end of 2004, and will “eventually” serve the remaining 10,000 locations in the United States. McDonald’s customers will be able to use the…
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Mobile RSS Tools Discussed by Daily Wireless
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDaily Wireless put together an excellent article about RSS use on mobile devices. The article includes a list of RSS aggregators for platforms from the PC and Macintosh all the way down to the iPod. [ via MobileWhack ] One suggestion that the author, Phillip Torreone, makes is Syndigator, a Perl-based…
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T-Mobile USA’s Handset Unlocking Policy
Reading Time: 2 minutesLate last month, I decided to do some research into mobile phone carriers’ handset unlocking policies. I did this because I keep hearing from Operation Gadget readers who are frustrated by their inability to take their phones with them when they switch carriers. In many cases, it’s because their handsets have been…
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Handset Unlocking Policy of AT&T Wireless
Reading Time: 2 minutesLate last month, I decided to do some research into mobile phone carriers’ handset unlocking policies. I did this because I keep hearing from Operation Gadget readers who are frustrated by their inability to take their phones with them when they switch carriers. In many cases, it’s because their handsets have been…
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April 5 – April 11, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the second week of April 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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Phillip Torreone Consolidates His Fitness Technology Resources into “/run”
Reading Time: < 1 minutePhillip Torreone, the guy behind The Geek Gym, has consolidated most of his fitness technology information into a site called /run. He’s done a lot of interesting research on fitness gadgets, and I think his site is definitely worth putting in your RSS aggregator. It’s going in mine right now.
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Gateway 7001 WiFi Gateway Offers Enterprise Level Security at a Low Price
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy friend Nick Martini from GCF has been reading about my new home office wireless network and asked, “What kind of access point should we get for our office?” As is the case with a lot of small and mid-sized businesses, he’d like more security and accountability than you can normally get…
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Doc Likes the Nikon Coolpix 5700
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDoc Searls recently picked up a Nikon Coolpix 5700 and likes it. He says: In my CES Report, I said the digital camera I found myself liking best was the Nikon Coolpix 5700. Well, a few days ago I got one…. I love the high quality of its photos, its materials…