Operation Gadget

Operation Gadget

  • I’m Contributing to Inside iPhone

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m pleased to report that I am contributing to Inside iPhone, a new part of the O’Reilly Digital Media Website. I will be posting over there once a week. My first post is Dave Aiello’s Attempt at Introducing Himself. It explains who I am to people who have never seen Operation…

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  • A Solution for iPhone Photo Saving Problems

    Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the few nagging problems I’ve experienced with my iPhone is a photo saving problem. This has been described in several different ways by other iPhone users out on the Internet: iPhone “disappearing photos” bug experienced by Jeffrey Zeldman back in November 2007. iPhone Camera Problems: Blank White Thumbnails mentioned in…

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  • Liveblog Transcript of the iPhone 2.0 Firmware Upgrade

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteScreenshot of Twitterific Application on my iPhone: This is a screenshot of the new Twitterific Application installed on my iPhone after I performed the 2.0 Firmware Update. [ Screenshot: Dave Aiello on Flickr ] I found a way to access the iPhone 2.0 Firmware in advance of the official release through iTunes. I…

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  • Back on the Web After a Server Crash

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe experienced a primary hard disk failure on the Operation Gadget server this weekend. I recovered the site from a backup a couple of hours ago. I look forward to getting back to posting on Monday.

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  • My Estimate on iPhone 3G Rate Plans Was On The Money

    Reading Time: 1 minuteI was happy to find out that the iPhone 3G Rate Plans are in line with my previous estimate of $86 for 450 minutes of talk, unlimited 3G data, and 200 SMS messages. From the reaction on other blogs, such as The Apple Phone Show, you’d think that they expected AT&T to…

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  • NoGrapesNoNuts.com Is One Funny Website

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNoGrapesNoNuts.com tells a humorous story about Grape Nuts cereal. [ Image: Kraft Foods, reposted on my Flickr photostream ] Jesse Gardner and a few other friends of mine sent me links to NoGrapesNoNuts.com, a website that advertises Grape Nuts cereal. The site includes a monologue by the presentor taking a humorous look at…

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  • Gadget Links: Lazy Friday Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutesCool Tool: StrollAway on Cool Tools: “… Once we got this hook, rather than just parking our stroller in the kitchen or dining room, we created a set, out-of-the-way place to store it. And since it’s off the floor, that gives us more space to fill up with more baby stuff. The…

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  • Questions Surface About SMS Messaging Costs on iPhone 3G

    Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier this month, I estimated the monthly mobile phone service cost of an iPhone 3G at $86. I included $5.00 in this estimate for a bundle of 200 SMS messages, because I had heard that AT&T Mobility was unbundling SMS messages in the data rate plans for the iPhone 3G. In Apple…

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  • Rob Mackey is the Latest Person Blogging L’Etape du Tour

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvery year I look for blogs that attempt to cover L’Etape du Tour, the Cyclosportive that follows the same route as one stage of The Tour de France. This year I found Rob Mackey’s blog at The New York Times called The Climb. Mackey is a web journalist who has done…

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