Apple Watch Series 4
Last month I upgraded my Apple Watch Series 3 to the Series 4, and today, I finally received a black Milanese loop to go with it!
Category: Sci/Tech
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iPhone XS Max
After my critical care boards yesterday, I went to “reward” myself by upgrading my iPhone X to the iPhone XS Max. When I was an Android user, I always enjoyed the larger form factor handsets (Pixel 2 XL, Samsung Note, etc.), and now I can finally enjoy having an edge-to-edge…
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EchoTools Is Live!
A few weeks ago, I decided to create an iPhone app that would empower me to learn another programming language (Swift) to unify my interests in echocardiography and medical education. EchoTools emerged from this idea, and yesterday, it was approved and listed by Apple on the App Store! I plan…
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Linking 3D Touch Static Shortcuts To Tabbed/Navigation View Controllers In Swift 4
In this example, I have a Swift 4 app with a single Tab Bar Controller and three Navigation Controllers each segued to a View Controller. There are plenty of guides online to help you set up the necessary strings in your Info.plist to enable static 3D touch shortcuts. In my case,…
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13″ 2018 MacBook Pro – Rigel
I upgraded my 2017 MacBook Pro (Fenix) to a 2018 MacBook Pro last month. The 13 inch, Coffee Lake based computer was a tremendous jump in performance compared to the 2017 model which I sold online for ~$1,000. I give you Rigel, my mobile computing platform.
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The Birth Of Orion – My 5 GHz Hexacore Hackintosh
When I was younger, I loved spending time at my dad’s office during summer break. He worked for a software company on a floor filled with cubicles, but in one corner was a large data room with the processing mainframes, storage servers, switchboards, and of course, professional cooling with power…
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Reference Management With Mendeley
As a physician, I try to stay up-to-date with the latest research emerging in critical care, anesthesiology, physiology, and medicine overall. It’s also important for me to understand the “landmark papers” that helped pave the evolution of so many of our modern practices. I use Mendeley to digitally centralize my…
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MacOS Code Snippets
Here are some commands (many of them run through the Terminal application) I use on MacOS. I’ll update this post periodically with more snippets. Drop me recommendations in the comments section below! :-)
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Starry Internet
Last week I discontinued my Comcast Xfinity service in favor of a new service provided by my apartment complex – Starry Internet. Starry operates on the 38.2 and 38.6 GHz bands are uses wireless technology to connect the provided wi-fi router to a base station which ultimately connects to a…
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Changing DNS Resolver To Cloudflare
With the widespread use of routers to distribute internet connections, it’s important to optimize performance and security settings. One simple measure is changing your router’s default domain name system (DNS) recursive resolver – a server which translates domain names (ie, http://rk.md) into IP addresses (ie, 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334). In a sense, the…