Operation Gadget
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Every Sport Needs a Spokesman Like Golf’s Frank Thomas
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Wall Street Journal’s Golf Journal column carried an a great interview with Frank Thomas, the former technical director of the U.S. Golf Association (USGA). Thomas makes some great points about the impracticality of state-of-the-art golf technology to the grassroots golfer. The quote that jumped off the page for me was this:…
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How the iPhone Salvaged Our Trip to Friendly’s
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had an iPhone experience tonight like the ones that make users of other mobile phones jealous. Kathleen, Jimmy, and I decided to go to Friendly’s for ice cream after dinner. We showed up at the Langhorne location only to find a standing-room-only crowd waiting for tables. We were quoted a 20-minute…
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Using Pixen to Create a Favicon for Operation Gadget
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI uploaded a favicon for Operation Gadget a little while ago. I used a program called Pixen to make it on my MacBook Pro. Pixen is donationware. The “Operation Gadget” title on the Alltop Gadgets Page looked naked without a favicon on its left. I felt like I had to step…
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Gadget Links: Lost Weekend Edition
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBig hockey weekend: This weekend the USA Hockey Women’s Nationals are taking place in West Chester, PA, the USA Hockey Tier III Junior Nationals are in Marlboro, MA, and the NCAA D-I Men’s Hockey Regional Tournaments are on in four cities around the country. More hockey tournament info on rinkatlas.com/blog. Yes,…
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How to Listen to PDF Documents on Your iPhone or iPod
Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier today, I needed to come up to speed quickly on IBM WebSphere MQ, a complex piece of enterprise software so I could discuss it with a senior manager at a potential consulting client. The easiest way to do this was to read an introductory whitepaper on Websphere MQ that would provide…
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Operation Gadget Is Now Part of The Alltop Gadgets Page
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI got an email from Guy Kawasaki last night telling me that Operation Gadget has been added to the Alltop Gadgets page. What a great terrific break for us! Alltop is the new weblog aggregation site that its owners call “the digital magazine rack” of the Internet. Operation Gadget headlines now…
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The iPhone Camera Seems to Excel at Taking Photos in “The Golden Hour”
Reading Time: 2 minutesKathleen, Jimmy, and I went to Roberts Ridge Park in Newtown Township earlier this evening so that Jimmy could play on the playground there. While we were at the playground, a man began flying a kite. This attracted Jimmy and another boy who is about the same age. I took out my…
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How to Get a Finder Window to Appear in All Spaces on Leopard
Reading Time: 2 minutesI started using Spaces the other day for the first time. This is an application for Mac OS X Leopard that allows you to set up four or more virtual screens, known as spaces. You can also dedicate the windows from specific applications to a specific spaces. So far Spaces has worked…
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L.A. Times: iPhone Users “Know Too Much”– Huh?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSaturday’s Los Angeles Times carried a front page story that made the argument that iPhone users know too much because they tend to use the Internet capability on their iPhone to answer questions that used to go unanswered in everyday conversations. The article claims that people who don’t use iPhones find…