Operation Gadget
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No Joke
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI haven’t posted much, but I feel obligated to point out that the information that has appeared on Operation Gadget today (April Fool’s Day) has been, to the best of my knowledge, entirely factual.
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PuTTY SSH Client Ported to Symbian OS for Series 60 and Nokia Communicator Series Mobile Phones
Reading Time: < 1 minutePetteri Kangaslampi and Sergei Khloupnov have ported the PuTTY SSH client application to the Symbian mobile phone operating system. The Putty for Symbian OS project currently supports the following phones: Series 60 mobile phones including: Nokia 3650, Nokia 6600, and Nokia N-Gage, as well as phones from LG Electronics, Lenovo, Panasonic,…
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Rebuilding My Laptop
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe hard disk on my laptop started making noises like it was sick last night. It got worse this morning. I copied as many of my laptop’s files off to my file server as I could. But, I still probably lost a few. We’ll see in a couple of days. In…
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Fujitsu LifeBook P5020 is One of the Best Ultralight Notebook Computers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Fujitsu LifeBook P5020 is an interesting machine that I discovered while reading the April 2004 edition of Mobile PC Magazine. Weighing in at only 3.9 pounds, the P5020 sports a 10.6-inch letterbox-format TFT display, a 1-Gigahertz Pentium M CPU, 512-Megabytes of RAM, and a full size keyboard. It has a…
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Intuit Discontinuing On-Line Services for Quicken 98, 99, and 2000
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOperation Gadget makes no friends in the industries that we cover when we take aggressive positions against the actions of gadget and software makers. But, I feel compelled to ask the question: What is Intuit thinking? They announced that on-line services for Quicken 98, 99, and 2000 are being discontinued in…
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2004 DIMA Digital Camera Shootout Winners Run the Gamut from Inexpensive to Professional
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn a recent article, I mentioned that the Digital Imaging Marketing Association had a Digital Camera Shootout at the DIMA Annual Conference in Las Vegas back in February. They picked winners in seven different categories based on retail price range, and an eighth for digital video camcorders. The winners were: In…
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TechTV Reviews Five Good Inexpensive Digital Cameras, But Leaves One Particularly Good Choice Out
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTechTV did short reviews of five good digital cameras with street prices under $200. The cameras they reviewed include: Olympus D-395 (3 megapixel), Fujifilm A210 (3.2 megapixel), Nikon Coolpix 2200 (2 megapixel), Kodak EasyShare CX6330 (3.1 megapixel), and Gateway DC-T23 (2 megapixel). All of these cameras are great deals for the…
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What Would A la Carte Cable TV Mean for America?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Washington Post ran a great article on Friday about the Senate Commerce Committee hearing that took place on Cable TV channel selection and the technological and contractual obstacles to driving such decisions all the way down to the individual household. Imagine what true a la carte channel choice would mean in…