Operation Gadget
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Gadget Links: Not What We Expected Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutesMac Automation: listen to a text document on TUAW: “Don’t have time to read that Word, Pages, or TextEdit document at your desk? Why not listen to it on your iPod instead? In this Automator how-to, I am going to show you how to create an audio file using text that you…
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Check Out Alltop.com
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGuy Kawaski, Will Mayall, and the rest of the folks at Nononina have built a new topic-based RSS aggregator called Alltop. There idea is to display the latest five stories from thirty or more blogs in each topic area. You can drill down to the topic areas that you are most…
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Gadget Links: Home Alone Edition
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up on NYTimes.com: “The push-up is the ultimate barometer of fitness. It tests the whole body, engaging muscle groups in the arms, chest, abdomen, hips and legs. It requires the body to be taut like a plank with toes and palms on the floor.…
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Gadget Links: Stuff I Should Have Posted a While Ago Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutesTopeak Mini 6 on CoolTools: “This incredibly compact, bike-oriented multi-tool has five different sizes of Allen wrench plus a Phillips screwdriver head, all of which folds up into a little pod about the size of a walnut. Sometimes I’ll carry it in my pocket or toss it in shoulder bag; mostly I…
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“iPhone Fully Loaded” is a Must Have Book for iPhone and iPod Touch Users
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe first book I bought to try to get new ideas on how I could better leverage my iPhone as a multimedia Swiss Army Knife was iPhone Fully Loaded by Andy Ihnatko. I have been really impressed by this book because it has some really excellent tips and techniques that go beyond…
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Is Windows XP with the “Bliss” Background Supposed to Be Teletubbyland?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJimmy mistook Windows XP for Teletubbyland: Does your toddler do that too? [ Image: Dave Aiello, in my Flickr account ] I started building a Windows XP virtual machine in VMware Fusion on my new MacBook Pro the other day. My 21-month old son Jimmy was really excited when he saw it and…
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Truphone Lowers Rates on VoIP Calls to International Landline Phones to as Low as $0.06 Per Minute
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was introduced to Truphone several months ago as a result of being part of the Nokia Blogger Relations program. Truphone makes it incredibly easy to use the WiFi feature of Nokia N-Series handsets like the Nokia N95 to make VoIP calls. Today Truphone announced some new calling plans that provide…
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Why Watermark Every Image During the Pixelmator Demo Period?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the applications I was dying to try when I got my MacBook Pro was Pixelmator. This is a low-cost image editing application for the Mac that aggressively integrates MacOS-specific features such as iSight camera input, an integrated Photo Browser, as well as integration with OS-level technologies like Automator and…
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I’m a Proud Owner of a Penryn-based MacBook Pro
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt long last I have my new MacBook Pro computer. I bought it Tuesday at the Apple Store in Christiana, Delaware and unboxed when I got home. Apple announced improved MacBooks and MacBook Pros on Tuesday. The newer versions of the MacBook Pro have increased disk space such that it made…