Autodesk Gallery: Version 0.9

I’ve had two opportunities to visit the Autodesk Gallery now, and am somewhat excited about its potential. The first was at the grand opening, and the second at the November Pecha Kucha-SF meeting. The visit […]

Finally bought a SCOTTEVEST

After avoiding the inevitableness for years, I finally broke down and bought myself a SCOTTEVEST, so I can get all the gadgets I like to carry around out of my pockets and off my belt—and […]

RJ Connectors: Registered Jack=Registered Junk

I just spent a couple of hours trying to rig up a set of cables to connect my sound mixing board to a 4-way RJ-45 switch box, so I could switch my nice Heil microphone […]

ATMs Have the Wrong Number

I have long been aware that there were different telephone keypad layouts that put letters on different number buttons, but it was only this past week that I really started researching this topic in detail. […]

AT&T Wireless 411—Text Messages Now Useless

I occasionally use the expensive 411 service from AT&TᾹmainly when I need a number quickly, and don’t have time to search for the number via WAP. It used to be that the text messages would […]

Pete Returns and Visits CES 2008

My long silence here was because I spent most of the past two years working for NVIDIA, as a technical marketing manager for workstation products. Aside from making me busy as heck, there weren’t many […]

Interoperability of Phones and PDAs with the Web

I’ts Christmas day, and I’m launching a new Website designed as a catalyst to improve how cellphones, PDAs, and desktop computers work on the Web and with each other. PDAcritic.com is not only a place […]

Mini Mine

After realizing that I needed the ability to run Mac OS X in addition to Windows XP to ensure my Web designs work across platforms, I waited patiently for Tiger to ship so that I […]

Color-Code me Stupid

After trying in vain on three different occasions to restore color and a full-size image to my Media Center’s TV output, I finally succeeded. At first, I thought perhaps I had damaged the S-Video cable, […]

Surprising Surround

Although I can’t be sure it was anything more than just a coincidence, I installed a new NVIDIA driver today, and magically discovered 5.1 sound coming out of my home theater speakers, over the S/PDIF […]