Operation Gadget
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I Wasn’t Around When the Impact of Operacion Puerto Hit the Tour de France
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy first indication that something significant was wrong in the world of Professional Cycling was an email I received early Friday morning from Ad de Vries of DeepWeb Internetsolutions. He said that he was sending me the latest copy of his Palm application LeTour 2006: This evening or tomorrow morning… the official…
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T-Mobile Sidekick 3 Reviews Say It Isn’t As Big An Improvement over the Sidekick II as Expected
Reading Time: 2 minutesMartin O’Donnell has been sending me reviews of the new T-Mobile Sidekick III, the long-awaited successor to the T-Mobile Sidekick II. Operation Gadget has covered the Sidekick II since it debuted in 2004, and we’ve always been pretty impressed with it. Martin uses a Sidekick II on an everyday basis, in the…
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NBC Trying to Develop an Action Sports Tour Along the Lines of Golf and Auto Racing
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week The Washington Post published an article that talked about NBC’s effort to start an action sports tour as a source of programming to intrigue a younger audience. The Dew Action Sports Tour is in its second year of existence. It’s co-owned by NBC and Live Nation, Clear Channel Communication’s…
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Replacing a Linux Server in the Basement with a NAS Box
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve got a five year old Linux server in the basement at the Home Office. It was state-of-the-art before 9/11: Built by one of the biggest Linux-hardware companies of the early days: VALinux (now called VA Software). Big disk capacity: 72 Gigabytes of SCSI-based hardware RAID. That was great five years ago.…
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How I Ruined a Perfectly Good Polar Wearlink Transmitter
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a fitness gadget maniac, I’m not supposed to admit this, but… I occasionally make mistakes when it comes to handling my gear. My latest mistake was damaging the battery cover on the Polar Wearlink Transmitter that I use with my Polar S-725 Heart Rate Monitor. This occurred for two reasons: I…
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Dutch Developer Releases PalmOS-based Guide to the 2006 Tour de France
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeepweb has released LeTour 2006 to help Palm users follow the 2006 Tour de France. [ Image: Deepweb Internet Solutions ] Frank Steele at TDFblog.com recently pointed out that Deepweb has published Le Tour 2006 a PalmOS application that provides stage profiles and distances, as well as intermediate Sprint and King-of-the-Mountains points. An update…
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Daring Fireball Says the New MacBook Compares Favorably to Recent MacBook Pro Models
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDaring Fireball written by John Gruber is a Macintosh-oriented site that often publishes long essays that contain gems of information for readers who are patient enough to read to the end. One example is the information about the MacBook that appeared in the Confidence Game, an essay that was published about…
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Commerce Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship to Run Tomorrow
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTomorrow is the first annual Commerce Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship. This race was formerly known as the Wachovia USPRO Championship— a race that Operation Gadget covered in 2005. As The Philadelphia Inquirer points out the race lost its sponsor and its role as the U.S. professional championship after the 2005…