MacFixIt reader Nick Collingridge has identified Entourage as the culprit behind an issue where default keyboard layouts in Mac OS X sporadically switch. Nick writes: "I have been suffering from a ...

This article outlines power, ground, PCB, and system layout hints and kinks. It includes an overview of using power, ground star points, and multifrequency power decoupling. It also shows how to ...

As Twitter starts to slowly collapse I'm realizing I have a lot of projects I've documented there, and well, nowhere else. That seems dumb. This is a project from 2021, my friend Kyle helped me figure ...

Open any switching power-supply datasheet or design handbook and the message is the same: follow these layout guidelines, OR ELSE. Even if the schematic has all the proper connections and the bill of ...

This article addresses some of the fundamentals of laying out a switching-regulator board. Although it focuses on a step-up switching-regulator, the concepts it covers are also useful when working ...