Operation Gadget
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Sometimes Walt Mossberg is Too Polite to His Readers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI got a bit of a kick out of the latest installment of Mossberg’s Mailbox, Do Macs Last Longer Than Windows PCs?. In it, a reader asks: Do Macs last longer than Windows PCs? I am willing to pay the additional cost for a Mac if it will last significantly longer,…
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Towing a Two-Year-Old in a Chariot Cougar 1
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the best ways to entertain my son Jimmy over the past week or so has been to put him in the Chariot Cougar 1 Carrier that I use as a bike trailer and tow him around the backroads near our house in Newtown, PA. Jimmy in the Chariot Cougar 1:…
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iTunes Agent Lets You Manage Music on Third-Party MP3 Players, PSP, or Phones
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJonathan Greene pointed out iTunes Agent in his Twitter feed. iTunes Agent is an Open Source Windows application that extends iTunes to allow it to work with third-party MP3 players and mobile phones. According to the website: iTunes is a great music player and organizer. Unfortunately iTunes is made to only…
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What’s It Like to Officiate the Stanley Cup Finals?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMany of you know that I officiate college ice hockey, so you probably won’t be surprised at my interest in a few video clips taken from interviews with four NHL Officials selected to officiate the Stanley Cup Finals: These interviews were made available by ESPN on a website called ESPN Video.…
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MLB’s Bid to Control Fantasy Baseball May Have Backfired on All Pro Sports Leagues
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Wall Street Journal has an interesting article in its Tuesday edition about a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could have a profound impact on online fantasy sports. The article says that Major League Baseball and the Players Association have been fighting for three years to limit the number of companies…
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Gadget Links: Post Memorial Day Weekend Edition
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSixty-Six on Daring Fireball: “The idea that Apple now sells two-thirds of retail computers costing $1000 or more is simply stunning. I (along with many others) have long argued that a simplistic “overall PC market share” number has never been a good metric for gauging the Mac’s success because the “overall…
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MacBreak Video Shows Finer Points of Quicksilver Utility for the Mac
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the utilities programs that veteran Mac users swear by is Quicksilver which at first glance appears to be a keyboard-based application launcher. It turns out that QuickSilver can be used for a great deal more than application launching, but a lot of the productivity that you can gain from it…
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Why I Updated to MacOS X 10.5.3 Right Away
Reading Time: < 1 minuteApple released MacOS X Version 10.5.3 earlier today. I first learned about the release when I was checking out Summize for the first time and saw references to Mac OS X and Leopard on the home page as “trending topics”. MacWorld has a good summary of the important fixes and new…