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Operation Gadget

Debut of “Jimmy’s Snowy Day,” a Short Film Shot on the Nokia N95 and Edited with iMovie ’08

Reading Time: 2 minutesOperation Gadget Films is pleased to present Jimmy’s Snowy Day starring my two-year-old son Jimmy Aiello in his streaming video debut. This short film (2 minutes and 40 seconds) was shot on February 22, 2008, near our home in Newtown, PA. This movie was shot with a Nokia N95 mobile phone, one…
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May 23, 2008
Happy Birthday Jimmy!

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHappy Birthday Jimmy!: My son Jimmy Aiello turns the big “2” today. Here’s a photo of the two of us when we were riding the new carousel at Sesame Place a couple of weeks ago. [ Photo: Kathleen Aiello via Flickr ] I’ve been insanely busy this week, but I wanted to take…
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May 23, 2008
Replacing the Polar Infrared Interface USB Because It Doesn’t Work with My Mac

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Polar Infrared Interface USB commonly used with PCs running Windows XP doesn’t work on a Mac [ Photo: Dave Aiello on Flickr ] The Polar Infrared Interface USB that many people got with their Polar S-Series heart rate monitors is a USB 1.1 device. I’ve been trying to use it without success on…
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May 19, 2008
Twitter is Basically Unusable When Working Behind a SonicWall Content Filter

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Wednesday, I visited the Panera in Levittown, PA to sip a diet soda and use their WiFi. This is supposed to be an amenity for customers. I had never taken advantage of it before. I saw a Twitter post (aka “tweet”) from someone I am following in my Twitterific window, and…
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May 15, 2008
Recommending the700Level.com for It’s Coverage of the Philadelphia Sports Scene

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you follow me on Twitter, you know that I attended my first Princeton Mac User Group meeting on Tuesday night rather than stay home and watch Game 3 of the Flyers – Penguins series. This is undoubtedly considered a sacrilege in my community, particularly because I am so involved in hockey…
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May 14, 2008
Free iPhone Wallpaper #5: Spare Bikes

Reading Time: < 1 minuteContinuing our theme of honoring The Tour de Georgia pro cycling race that took place a few weeks ago, our fifth free iPhone wallpaper is “Spare Bikes”: I took this photo of the Kodak Gallery Cycling Team Car and spare bikes at the 2005 Tour de Georgia. This is one of…
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May 14, 2008
How Apple Saved Mother’s Day

Reading Time: 2 minutesKathleen and Jimmy looking at the iPhoto book that we ordered for her mom. The second copy arrived today. [ Photo: Dave Aiello on Flickr. ] Kathleen and I took advantage of an iPhoto Custom Photo Book promotion that Apple ran for Mother’s Day. We ordered Kathleen’s mother a hard cover photo book. We…
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May 12, 2008
Twitterific vs Spaz: The Twitter Client Face-off on My Desktop

Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve been using Twitter for several weeks, because there are things that friends of mine might be interested in hearing about that will never make it into an email or an Operation Gadget post. Twitterific vs Spaz: These two desktop Twitter clients that run on the Mac are competing for space on…
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May 12, 2008
Is This a Music Video or an Ad for Leopard?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s a music video that’s making the rounds of web sites I read: The movement away from Windows and toward the Mac is still in it’s early stages, so lots of people haven’t seen all of these Mac applications before. My question is, does it make more sense as a music…
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May 12, 2008