Operation Gadget
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Treo 600 Featured in New York Times Magazine “Consumed” Column
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe palmOne Treo 600 was discussed in Sunday’s Consumed column in the New York Times Magazine. The column tends to spoon-feed the description of the integrated communicator to the reader, which is not surprising given the demographics of the print version of the magazine. Nevertheless, the fact that the column was…
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Forerunner 201 Update: Logbook Expected in February, Are You Trying Before Buying?
Reading Time: 2 minutesOperation Gadget is continuing to get a lot of traffic and comments about the Garmin Forerunner 201 fitness gadget, so I thought I’d do a bit of an update. According to the Garmin website, the Logbook software will be available in February 2004. Back at the beginning of December, I reported that…
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January 19-25, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the third week of 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 for…
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Little Time to Work on the Wireless Network this Week
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome Operation Gadget readers may be wondering why this site has been so quiet this week. One reason is that a consulting client of mine has had me working on relocating their e-commerce site to a new hosting provider. If you’ve ever done anything like this, you know it’s almost always more…
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Amazon.com Now Taking Orders for iLife ’04
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon.com is now taking orders for iLife ’04 on behalf of its partner J&R Music World. iLife ’04 features the new music creation application called GarageBand as well as iTunes 4.2, iPhoto 4, iMovie 4, and iDVD 4. Of the four upgraded applications, iPhoto 4 is probably the one with the…
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XM Music Channels to Go Commercial-Free on February 1
Reading Time: < 1 minuteXM Satellite Radio has recently made a couple of announcements that make its service even more desirable to many radio listeners. The first is that effective February 1, 2004, all XM music channels will be commercial free. This will take a significant service differentiator away from XM’s competitor, Sirius. Another feature…
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Adobe Photoshop Album is Walter Mossberg’s Preferred PC Photo Management Software
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn his Personal Technology column that appears in today’s Wall Street Journal, Walter Mossberg talks about why he prefers Adobe Photoshop Album for digital photo management on Windows PCs. I looked at the PC photo management software choices a few weeks ago, and chose Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album 4 over Adobe…
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Moblogger Finds T-Mobile Has Excellent International Customer Support
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJoi Ito was surprised to find T-Mobile extemely helpful in finding a Swiss mobile carrier who could support him with good GPRS access. He said: When I landed, I had trouble connecting to Swisscom, but “611” and two rings later, I was connected to a friendly T-Mobile support person speaking in…
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January 12-18, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the second week of 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 for…