Operation Gadget

Operation Gadget

  • Life Gets in the Way Sometimes

    Reading Time: 2 minutesOperation Gadget went quiet at the end of August. This is by far the longest break in posts in the five year history of the site. If you are wondering why, consider: I lost my job in September. This happened a couple of weeks after my family came back from vacation at…

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  • I Changed My Mind on iPhone Tethering

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy latest post on O’Reilly’s Inside iPhone is A Glimpse of Our Tethering Future where I recount my experiences working with a Nokia E71 and an application called JoikuSpot that turns the E71 into a 3G-powered ad hoc WiFi access point that you can carry in your pocket. My use of…

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  • AirCell Gogo Successfully Used for a VoIP Call on a Transcontinental Flight

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI haven’t really talked about AirCell or its Gogo inflight Internet access service since it first became available on American Airlines. But Andy Abramson turned me on to a little experiment with the service that he and Laptop Magazine’s Joanna Stern did yesterday that is absolutely worthy of mention. Andy reports that…

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  • When Did i.TUAW.com Debut?

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was on the train home from NYC tonight reading tweets on the Twitterific iPhone app. I got a tweet from TUAW that said: i.tuaw.com This is (of course) the iPhone-optimized version of The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Is this new? If so, it’s long overdue. It takes at least a minute…

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  • Dave’s Commuting Schedule

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few weeks ago, I said I’d publish my daily schedule so you readers of Operation Gadget could see what life is like for me now that I’m working full time in Manhattan. Here it is: 4:40am: Wake up, dress in workout clothes, drive to the gym 5:00: Arrive at gym,…

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  • I Found the Triathletes; They’re at the Gym at 5 AM

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been working out at Newtown Athletic Club, a massive gym complex in Newtown, PA, every morning before work. In order to do this and still get to my desk in Manhattan reasonably early, I show up at the gym when the doors open at 5:00am. There appears to be a…

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  • Since My Wife Has an iPhone 3G, I Don’t Have the Best Phone in the House Anymore

    Reading Time: 2 minutesMonday I bought my wife Kathleen an iPhone 3G. I finally figured out the new iPhone line protocol at Apple Stores, swung by The West 14th Street Apple Store on my way to work, and found the line almost pleasingly short. If AT&T Mobility hadn’t had some meaningless flag on my account,…

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  • Assigning Locations to OmniFocus iPhone Contexts

    Reading Time: 4 minutesMy latest Inside iPhone post is called How an iPhone Can Help You Be More Productive When Commuting Via Mass Transit. One of the things I talk about in that post is the power of using location-based contexts within the OmniFocus for iPhone application. I realized while writing the Inside iPhone piece…

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  • Don’t Start a New Job in New York During the Last Week of the Tour

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI know what you’re thinking. Dave was about as absent from the 2008 Tour de France as Team Astana. More in fact, because Johan Bruyneel appeared on Versus during the last week of The Tour as a color analyst. So what happened? I accepted a new job in New York working…

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