Operation Gadget

Operation Gadget

  • Windows Vista to Be Delayed Until January 2007

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft will delay the general release of Windows Vista until January 2007. According to the article, “Mr. Allchin {co-president of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services Division} said that the major reason for this delay — which amounts to several weeks beyond the original expected launch date…

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  • I’ve Been Cleared to Resume Physical Activity

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor those of you who have been following my recovery from a broken left fibula, I saw my orthopedist today and I was cleared to resume physical activity. Surprisingly, this includes the opportunity to try skating again as soon as I want. My wife Kathleen suggested that I find my in-line…

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  • Going on an RSS Feed Diet

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI started using Bloglines at the end of 2004 to keep up with the blogs that were emerging to cover the industries in which I’m interested. Back then I raved about how productive it made me (see Bloglines is Changing My Life). Unfortunately I kept subscribing to feeds and rarely pruned my…

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  • Kodak EasyShare V570 Looks Good to Popular Photography

    Reading Time: < 1 minutePopular Photography and Imaging recently published a useful review of the Kodak EasyShare V570. The V570 is a compact camera with a unique dual lens / dual imaging sensor image capture mechanism. According to the article: Kodak’s dual lens design is useful. For example, if you combine the ultra-wide, fixed focal…

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  • Stop Wasting Outlets with a PowerSquid Outlet Multiplier

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe other day Cool Tools pointed out a product called the PowerSquid Outlet Multiplier and I’m planning to pick one up over the weekend for my server area in my basement. Down there I have a DSL router, a firewall appliance, a WiFi access point, and two VoIP ATAs plugged into…

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  • “DJ Steveboy” Creates Podrunner Podcasts for Runners and Cyclists

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhile I was on the iTunes Music Store this morning, I noticed that a new series of podcasts called Podrunner has rapidly become one of the hottest podcast series over the past few weeks. dj steveboy, a Los Angeles-area disk jockey, has created three Podrunner podcasts he describes as “fast-paced, high-energy,…

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  • WSJ Says The Slingbox and Place-Shifting are the Latest Threats to the Television Industry

    Reading Time: 2 minutesA page one article in today’s Wall Street Journal discusses the technological threats that are developing to the television industry’s business model. One example given in the article is that Major League Baseball‘s MLB.tv video streaming service collected $265 million from 1.3 million subscribers last year, but still blocked subscribers from watching…

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  • Great How To on Pro Cycling Digital Photography

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new cycling blog called Spare Cycles has published an excellent how to article called Shooting cycling photographs with a Canon Digital Rebel. The author is a novice cycling photographer with a Canon Digital Rebel 300D who shot photos at a several stages of the Amgen Tour of California. He also…

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  • Men and Women Differ in Digital Camera Preferences

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell pointed out an article by Dave Gussow of the St. Petersburg Times that talks about a number of new developments in the digital camera and photo printing businesses that were publicized at PMA 2006 earlier this month in Orlando. The main focus of this article is that digital camera…

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