Operation Gadget
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Gadget Links: Web 2.0 Overload Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow to link Twitter to Facebook – A Twitter Tutorial on AJVayerchuck.com: A concise explanation of how to install the Twitter app within Facebook and allow it to update your Facebook status. Clutter War II: Attack of the Giant Baby on 43Folders: “…you might be able to guess where my head is…
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Seeking Followers on Twitter Who Are Real Human Beings
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve noticed that the first stage of attracting followers on Twitter (beyond your actual friends) is that accounts that act like bots start to follow you. Not to name any names, but one of my followers is just reporting random things from Google News, another one is just throwing out facts…
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What If Google Reader Supported Regular Expressions?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMerlin Mann came up with a great idea a few minutes ago on Twitter: Craving some kind of existential regular expression that could give me one week without hearing a single syllable about the primary race. I’d love it if this concept was embraced by Google Reader. Imagine if you could…
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Apple Gets Big Bang for Its R&D Buck
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Wall Street Journal Business Technology Blog reports that Apple spent $844 million on research and development in 2007, significantly less than competitors Microsoft, IBM, H-P, Sun, and AMD. This is interesting because everybody and their brother has been touting Apple as a uniquely innovative company. I think Apple succeeds so…
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Apple’s Quarterly Earnings Up 36% On Strength in Mac Sales
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was one of the people who bought a Mac in the fiscal quarter that ended March 29. The last time I bought a Mac for myself was over 10 years ago. I guess wasn’t alone, because The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple’s quarterly earnings rose 36 percent, largely on…
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Free iPhone Wallpaper #3: Brasstown
Reading Time: < 1 minuteContinuing our theme of honoring The Tour de Georgia pro cycling race that started yesterday, our third free iPhone wallpaper is “Brasstown”: I took this photo of the observation tower at the top of Brasstown Bald in April 2005 at The Tour de Georgia with a Canon Powershot A95 point-and-shoot camera.…
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Article Explains Why the Mac Platform is Growing at the Expense of Windows
Reading Time: 2 minutesArs Technica published a terrific article by Peter Bright that illustrates why the Mac platform is growing at the expense of Windows. According to the article: Windows is dying, Windows applications suck, and Microsoft is too blinkered to fix any of it—that’s the argument. The truth is that Windows is hampered by…
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Tour de Georgia Begins Monday
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the biggest annual stage races in the United States begins Monday: The 2008 Tour de Georgia, this year presented by AT&T. I won’t be attending the TdG this year, but I have attended it in the past and I have some friends who do an excellent job covering this…
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New Operation Gadget Header Graphic
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSince I switched back to Mac on February 28, I’ve started using much more of my photo library. One of the products of this process is a new Operation Gadget header graphic which shows a series of Serotta road bikes mounted on a roof rack. I’ve been using the original photo…