Operation Gadget
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Download.com Publishes Handy Firefox Optimization Tips
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDownload.com recently published Optimizing Firefox, a special section loaded with tips on how to improve the performance of Firefox. I found a lot of information about Firefox in it that I didn’t know. For instance: Download performance can be improved by deleting the record of old downloads from the Download Manager.…
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Viewsonic VX2025 Wins 20-inch Widescreen Monitor Shootout at Bit-Tech
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe ViewSonic VX2025 won a 20-inch Widescreen Monitor Group Test published yesterday at Bit-Tech.net. The VX2025 was judged the best value for the money against the following competitors: BenQ FP202W NEC MultiSync 20WGX, apparently not available in the U.S. but the closest model is the NEC MultiSync 20WMGX2-BK Acer AL2032WA On…
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Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 DX Superzoom is Super According to Thom Hogan
Reading Time: 2 minutesThom Hogan wrote a great review of the AF-S Zoom-Nikkor ED 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF DX VR. That’s a Nikon 18-200mm Superzoom lens to you and me. This is a great review because Hogan goes into great detail about why it’s so unusual for a camera manufacturer to ship a great all-purpose lens…
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Governments Making Ad Hoc Changes to Their Time Zones Create Their Own Mini-Y2K Problems
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBoing Boing has done a nice job of covering the chaos that’s taking place around the switch to or from Daylight Savings Time (also known as “Summer Time”) in some parts of the world. Earlier today, they pointed out that Indiana has decided to adopt DST uniformly this year. One minor…
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Polar Precision Performance Software Gets Another Update
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJanus Sandsgaard of Machine Culture emailed me on Friday to point out that Polar Precision Performance Software has been updated to add the following new features: Double-clicking on day row opens the Diary to Daily details page. Week count extended to max. 20 (Calendar Properties – General – Number of Weeks)…
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Back on My Bike and My Skates
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn Sunday, I took out my in-line skates and skated around the industrial complex near our house in Newtown, PA. This was the first time I had been on skates since January 24 when I broke my left fibula while officiating a hockey game. My left ankle was noticeably more swollen…
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Marketshare of Treo 650 and 700 Grew as a Result of BlackBerry Patent Concerns
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Wall Street Journal reported that Palm saw marketshare growth for its Treo 650 and 700 series mobile phones as a result of the patent dispute between Research in Motion, the manufacturer of BlackBerry handheld devices, and NTP, Inc., a patent holding company based in Arlington, VA. According to the article: ……
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Leveraging The Power and Security of UNIX Tools as a Windows or Mac User
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve seen a couple of really good tutorials on the proper use of UNIX power tools recently that I wanted to bring to the attention of Operation Gadget readers: Mastering Wget from Lifehacker.com: “… A versatile, old school Unix program called Wget is a highly hackable, handy little tool that can…