Operation Gadget
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December 29, 2003 – January 4, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the last week of 2003. 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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Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album 4 is a Good Choice for Digital Photo Management on PCs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of days ago, I offered new digital camera owners some advice on photo management. Among other things, I suggested that they “get a good piece of digital photo management software” for their personal computer and “don’t print every photo” kept on the camera. I offered Apple iPhoto 2 as…
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HP iPAQ 4355 Pocket PC Now Shipping
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI talked about the HP iPAQ 4355 Pocket PC in an article that appeared on Operation Gadget back in November. In it, I reported that the iPAQ 4355 was named one of PC Magazine’s best products of Comdex, that it incorporated Bluetooth, WiFi, and a bright color display, and that it…
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Low Cost DVD Players Flood the Market During 2003 Holiday Season
Reading Time: 2 minutesI missed this article when it first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, but yesterday The Seattle Times ran a column by Mike Langberg that discusses the large variety of inexpensive DVD players available at consumer electronic resellers. DVD players were offered as loss leaders on Black Friday this year, with…
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Digital Cameras Apparently Causing Backups at Some One Hour Photo Stores
Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier today, I had a nice conversation with the woman working at the Photo Center at the Target Store in East Windsor, NJ. From time to time, I go there to pick up and drop off film from my 35mm SLR camera that does not need special processing. Normally, I have the…
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Are You Really Surprised by the Replay TV Fiasco?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell pointed out this Associated Press article that retells the story of the fiasco that ensued when ReplayTV promoted a $149 price for their 40-hour recorder with three years of programming service included, only to reneg on the deal after many units were sold by Amazon.com and Circuit City. There…
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Amazon.com Running Big Sale on Norelco Spectra Shavers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis morning I noticed that one thrifty Operation Gadget reader purchased a Norelco 8890XL Spectra Rechargeable Cord/Cordless Men’s Shaving System on New Year’s Day. You say, “Why did that person wait until January 1? If they had bought by December 31, they would have gotten a free personal groomer and a…
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I Bought My Wife an iPod for Christmas
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the less well-kept secrets around the Home Office leading up to Christmas was the “big gift” that I gave to my wife. I gave her a 10 Gigabyte iPod that I bought at the Apple Store at Menlo Park Mall in Edison, NJ. I probably would have bought the iPod…
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Dallas Morning News Tests and Reports on Consumer 802.11g Gear
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA week before Christmas, Doug Bedell and Victor Godinez tested a number of pieces of consumer 802.11g gear and reported the results in an article that appeared in The Dallas Morning News. They generally liked the D-Link DI-624 AirPlus Xtreme G Router although they had difficulty setting up advanced features like…