Operation Gadget
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Nirotek Reportedly Achieves Surround Sound Effect With Speakers in One Location
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell pointed out an article from New Scientist that says Nerotek has developed an integrated home theater speaker system that delivers surround sound from a single point in the room. According to the article, the Niro 1.1 Pro achieves the surround sound effect by placing five speakers in the same…
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Sprint PCS Reportedly Ready to Debut True SMS Service for Customers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRCR Wireless News reported yesterday that Sprint PCS is readying an implementation of Short Messaging Service (SMS) for deployment on its nationwide network. Currently, they employ a WAP-based application for text messaging. I’m not currently a Sprint customer, so when I read this it shocked me. I guess this shows how…
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Kevin Werbach on the Treo 600: “Subtle Improvements Have Huge Consequences”
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor those of you who are keeping score, Operation Gadget was up for two and a half days before our first Treo 600 article. Yesterday, TheFeature.com published an article by Kevin Werbach called The Triumph of Good Enough. In it, Werbach compares the Treo 600 to its predecessor the Treo 300 and…
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Real World Tip: Carry a Car Charger for Your Mobile Phone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI got a call from my father-in-law about 8 o’clock tonight. He said that he was stuck on the roadside about 3 miles from my house because, believe it or not, his new windshield wipers flew off during a driving rainstorm. The technicians at the quick lube place that he had…
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Thinking About Trying Microsoft OneNote 2003
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the implementation of the Operation Gadget website, I took about 30 pages of notes. I wrote those notes into a “planning pad”, a notebook of 8 1/2 by 11 inch pages of quad-lined paper that is bound at the top. This sort of note taking is a great habit to develop…
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Send Your Gadget Tips to Operation Gadget
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’ve created an email address especially for Operation Gadget readers who want to send us tips. If you have news about an electronic gadget or a piece of software, email it to tips@operationgadget.com. Thanks for reading Operation Gadget.
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Why I Put the Canon PowerShot S400 on My Wishlist
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy birthday is a little more than three weeks before Christmas. So, in November, my family starts pressuring me to hint at the gifts I’d like to receive in December. My trusty old Nikon Coolpix 950 has given up the ghost, so I decided to look for a new digital camera…
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Amazon Offers Bluetooth Headset with Purchase of Sony Ericsson T610 or T616 Through 12/31/03
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just found out that Amazon.com is offering a free Jabra FreeSpeak Bluetooth Headset with the purchase of a Sony Ericsson T610 Phone or a Sony Ericsson T616 Phone between now and December 31, 2003. Details of the offer are available on Amazon, but basically, US residents are eligible if they…
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LG VX6000 Mobile Phone Gets People’s Attention
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSaturday night, a friend let me let me play with her LG VX6000 Mobile Phone for a few minutes. If you haven’t seen one of these, you probably will because it might be the only camera phone that Verizon Wireless currently sells. This is a very striking phone, eliciting something close…