Operation Gadget
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2006 Ford Tour de Georgia Begins Tuesday in Augusta
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Ford Tour de Georgia, the second major stage race on the U.S. pro cycling calendar, begins Tuesday in Augusta. A veteran cycling blogger from Georgia named Frank Steele has expanded his coverage of the Tour de Georgia this year by launching the Tour de Georgia Blog at www.TdGblog.com. This is…
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Are Digital TVs Being Returned Because Some People Don’t Understand High Definition?
Reading Time: 2 minutesMartin O’Donnell recently visited Costco Warehouse #1 in Seattle, where he saw the following sign: All Digital TVs at Costco are displaying High Definition content. In order to view the same picture quality at home, you must upgrade to HD programming. Martin added, “It goes on to explain how a standard definition…
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Sale on Mission M-Cube 5.1 Home Theater Speaker System at Amazon.com Brings Price Below $1,000
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon.com just put the Mission M-Cube 5.1 Home Theater Speaker System on sale, bringing the price of the package below $1,000 for the first time. The M-Cube 5.1 is one of the few home theater systems that uses NXT speaker technology but doesn’t emphasize flat cabinetry. NXT technology was designed to…
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Trek to Investigate Hincapie Crash in Paris-Robaix Cycling Race
Reading Time: 2 minutesHincapie’s Trek in Pieces: The bike was built up from a Trek 5200, with carefully-selected components designed to make riding over cobblestones easier. [ Photo: AFP via VeloNews ] TDFblog.com has an excellent report on Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix Cycling Race. This race, often referred to by the nickname “Hell of the North”, was exactly that…
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Celestron SkyScout Helps You Identify Over 6,000 Objects in the Night Sky
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI always had difficulty identifying stars in the night sky when I went star-gazing as a kid, so I was intrigued when I heard about the Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium— a handheld device that lets you identify 6,000 stars, planets, and constellations as they appear overhead. It has the ability to…
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Further Discussion of Firefox Memory Usage Problems
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week, CyberNet Technology News published a useful article called Reducing Your Memory Usage In Firefox that lists a number of Firefox extensions that apparently leak memory. The article includes links to Bugzilla reports for many of the memory leaks in question, which may make some people more confident about the…
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Back on the Ice for the First Time Today
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ll be back on the ice today to officiate hockey for the first time since I broke my leg on January 24. I’ll be officiating two games in the 2006 USA Hockey Disabled Hockey Festival at Iceland in West Chester, PA. It’s a real pleasure to have the opportunity to work…
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Boot Camp Should Be the First Step Toward Windows Virtualization on Intel-Based Macs
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was thrilled to see that Apple introduced Boot Camp yesterday. Boot Camp is a free-standing add-on to the next release of Mac OS X that gives Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers dual boot capability. All you need to do to run Microsoft Windows on the same machine is to install your own…