Operation Gadget
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August 1 – 7, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of August 2005. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…
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No Getting Around the DMV
Reading Time: 2 minutesPennsylvania License Plate: The only one you’ll find on my Jeep, and it’s on the rear lift gate. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] Kathleen and I spent several hours yesterday working our way through the bureaucracy of the Pennsylvania Department of Motor Vehicles, also known as the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation or…
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Sales at Performance Bike on Electronics, Clothing, and Wheel-Related Products
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just noticed that Performance Bicycle is running good on-line sales in their electronics, clothing, and tires/tubes/wheels departments. All of these departments stock things that I desperately need at the moment. The prices are good. They have a good deal on the Ciclosport HAC4 if you need one of those right…
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A Worthy List of Treo 650 Add-on Software for the Productivity Minded User
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMarc Orchant published a great list of add-on software for his Treo 650 over on The Office Weblog a couple of days ago. He’s suggested two or three Palm applications I’m trying out now: SplashID, part of Splash Wallet: I mentioned that I’m trying this out a little while ago here…
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Trying SplashID on My Treo to Keep Track of Passwords
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSomewhere in the transition to my Treo 650 back in March, I lost a memo entry that contained a big list of passwords for websites and other applications. It was a bad idea to store that information in that manner in the first place, so I resolved to find a Palm…
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Measuring the Steepness of Hills on Cycling Routes
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe other day I alluded to the posted grade of a hill between New Hope and Wrightstown, PA. In the course of trying to figure the actual grade of the hill myself, I found Measuring the Hilliness of Routes which is part of Ken and Sharon Roberts’ Bike Hudson Valley website.…
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First Sign of Campagnolo Bike Technology for 2006
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVelonews just published some early information about Campagnolo’s new cycling gear for 2006. Looks like they’ll be featuring: a new road wheel set, compact drive cranksets across their gruppos, and an ultra narrow chain that is supposed to improve performance if the derailleur is not adjusted correctly. These things should be…
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Leaving a Browser Window Open to an Interesting Web Page Can Be a Productivity Killer
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of years ago I got into the habit of leaving a browser window open to contain an interesting or useful web page that I’d just found. I usually intended to come back and mention the page here on Operation Gadget or on CTDATA.com back when I used it as…