Operation Gadget
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When Building a Wireless Network, Follow the Suggestions of Experts
Reading Time: 2 minutesI spent most of last evening diagramming my office’s LAN, performing the initial setup of a D-Link DI-624 AirPlus Xtreme G Wireless Router, and seeing if I liked the results. I followed most of the advice offered in The Wireless Networking Starter Kit. But, typically for me, the piece of advice I…
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My Wireless Networking Experiment Begins
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday UPS delivered a D-Link DI-624 AirPlus Xtreme G Wireless Router to the Home Office and I’m about to embark on the implementation of a wireless network. I am following as much of the advice that Adam Engst and Glenn Fleishman provided in their book The Wireless Networking Starter Kit as…
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Fitsense FS-1 Speedometer Covers the Basics, with Room to Grow
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Fitsense FS-1 Speedometer is a good fitness monitor for readers who want a fairly sophisticated speed and distance monitor, but don’t need to collect extra data like GPS coordinates or heart rate. The FS-1 Speedometer consists of a foot pod which acts as an accelerometer, and a watch that collects…
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January 5-11, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first 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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Treo 600 Photo Output Can Be Improved by Configuration Changes
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Connected PDA Treo 600 Moblogreported that a number of Handspring / palmOne Treo 600 have successfully improved the quality of photos taken with the embedded digital camera by reducing the amount of compression applied to each photo. According to the article, a program called Qset makes this possible. One of…
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Lego Announces End of Lego Mindstorm Products
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today, Slashdot pointed out that Lego reportedly will stop making electronics, including Lego Mindstorms products, and also stop making building kits that are tied in to major movies. These actions are being taken in response to bad financial results for the group for the 2003 fiscal year. The Lego Mindstorms…
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The Wireless Networking Starter Kit Second Edition is a Great Help to Get Started with WiFi
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe other day, I bought a copy of The Wireless Networking Starter Kit, Second Edition, read a significant part of it, and browsed through the rest. I think that this is one of the best books on wireless networking that has been published recently in terms of bredth of topics covered and…
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“TiVo-To-Go is Deliberately Broken”: Cory Doctorow
Reading Time: 2 minutesKudos to Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing for providing an honest reaction to yesterday’s TiVo’s TiVo-to-Go announcement. He hates it: The TiVo execs I’ve spoken with about this have expressed TiVo’s philosophy as “reasonable compromise” — delivering features that customers want, so long as it doesn’t make the Hollywood companies too unhappy.…
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TiVo Announces Video Portability and HDTV Solutions at CES
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOur friends at PVRblog have done a good job of covering the announcements that TiVo made at the Consumer Electronics Show on Thursday. It’s hard to know which of these announcements TiVo fans will consider more important. TiVo and DirecTV announced an HDTV-capable digital video recorder that will reportedly be available…