Operation Gadget
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The MacObserver Publishes Fantastic WiFi Tips from a Former Apple Engineer
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI get a lot of requests for help from people who have performance issues with WiFi networks at home and in public. It’s often difficult to help because most people know WiFi like they know electricity: as long as it does what they want it to do, they don’t think about…
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FiveThirtyEight Tries to Define Classic Rock, But Misses Sirius XM Channels
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFiveThirtyEight.com, a website that’s part of ESPN Internet Ventures, is one of the coolest sites on the Internet for data geeks. They constantly come up with articles that pique my imagination. Today they published an article which says that classic rock isn’t what it used to be, citing data compiled from…
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Ted King is My Sentimental Favorite in the 2014 Tour de France
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDuring last year’s Tour de France, I said that Ted King Should Still Be Riding in the Tour de France because he was eliminated after finishing Stage 4 7.6 seconds slower than the required time. King separated his shoulder in last year’s Stage 1, managed to finish Stages 2 and 3…
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World Cup Fever Clobbering “TV Everywhere” Authentication Servers
Reading Time: 2 minutesSince the beginning of the World Cup 2014 game between USA and Germany (and again during USA-Belgium), we’ve seen people report issues with starting to stream the game on AppleTV and iOS. We were asked to re-verify our cable subscription before seeing USA-Ger on #WatchESPN. Did it happen to anybody else? pic.twitter.com/Ynjbf4BRvm…
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Seven Years of iPhone
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn June 29, 2007 at Freehold Raceway Mall in Freehold, New Jersey, I bought the first model of the iPhone that was made available for public sale. We still have that iPhone here today. My son Peter sometimes plays games on it. I remember saying to my wife Kathleen, “Well, I’m going…
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Mike Kreaden Finishes Western States Endurance Run in 27:44:35
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just want to congratulate Mike Kreaden on finishing the Western States Endurance Run in 27 hours, 44 minutes, and 35 seconds. I can’t express how thrilled I am for Mike and his family. This is an amazing achievement! [ Photo: Mike Kreaden / Stevens Creek Striders ]
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Good Luck to Mike Kreaden in The Western States Endurance Run
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA friend of mine named Mike Kreaden who works at Salesforce.com is running The Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile ultramarathon conducted on trails between Squaw Valley and Auburn, California. I remember watching the Western States 100 on television when I was in college about 25 years ago. This is an…
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Apple Focusing on Storage and Sharing of Photos by Deprecating Aperture and iPhoto
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis morning, Jim Dalrymple of The Loop reported that Apple is stopping development of Aperture and iPhoto, and will focus all photo management development moving forward on the new Photos app demonstrated at WWDC. As I said in a comment I posted to Jim’s article: Since iOS 7 was released, I’ve…
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What Does Adobe Pass Do, And Why is it Critical to Live Sports Event Streaming?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the aftermath of some gitches that happened when people were trying to tune in to WatchESPN to watch Team USA play Germany in WorldCup 2014, I talked to some people who have streaming infrastructure experience. A few of those people told me that in order to understand the issues with verifying…