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iPhone 3G?

I’ve been thinking about whether the iPhone 3G is worth it. Right now, the wife and I both have BlackBerrry Pearls. T-Mobile has this great plan where you get email only for an additional $10 per line (we’ve found that the data speeds on the T-Mobile EDGE network in NYC are too slow so we […]

Posted 16 July 2008 † peter § ‡ Comments (2) °

Audio input on Apple laptop vs. ThinkPad laptop

This morning, I was testing out some audio recording on my ThinkPad and it wasn’t sounding right. I finally realized that the ThinkPad has a microphone input rather than a line-level input. This threw me off because I’ve done lots of sound recording on my PowerBook before, which has a line-level input, so I expected […]

Posted 23 March 2008 † peter § ‡ Comments (1) °

Best noise reducing headphones

A common misconception is that active noise canceling headphones like the Bose QuietComfort headphones are the best at reducing external noise. The truth is that while active noise canceling headphones excel at cutting down low frequency noise like office fans and airplane jets, they are not necessarily the best for cutting down higher frequency noise, […]

Posted 17 February 2008 † peter § ‡ Comments (3) °

Being obsessive about sound quality

There are people out there who are really obsessive about sound quality. I’m trying to avoid getting myself into that. :)
Apparently, the iPod and pretty much all portable music players have poor headphone output amplification, so to some degree, that becomes a limiting factor in the sound quality you get out of your iPod, regardless […]

Posted 17 February 2008 † peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

Would I want to work at Google?

I received an email today from a recruiter at Google asking if I was interested in working in their New York office. I don’t know if every software professional living in New York City gets contacted by Google or if they really are specifically interested in me. In any case, I would have been very […]

Posted 01 October 2007 † peter § ‡ Comments (0) °