Over the last few years, I’ve definitely become a fan of Satechi’s sleek designs and USB Type-C adapters. My latest purchase is a charging solution I’ll use on-the-go to power my AirPods Pro and Apple Watch using a single, reversible adapter. At the time of this writing, the charger is…
I started my web journey with Dot5Hosting back in the mid 2000s and ultimately transition to Bluehost shared hosting on September 18, 2008. After growing issues with performance and uptime, I switched to Siteground on June 13, 2015 at the recommendation of many users across the WordPress ecosystem.
I recently purchased Apple’s newest MacBook Pro with its in-house M1 “Apple Silicon” chip. This paradigm shift in CPU architecture will take place over the next few years, but the results are already astonishing. Although benchmarks don’t necessarily translate to “real world” performance, they ARE objective metrics. Let’s compare my…
“With Apple Watch Series 6, you can measure your blood oxygen right from your wrist.” This was the punch line for Apple’s latest update to its Watch lineup during the “Time for a recap” event on September 15th. The intensivist and anesthesiologist in me was irked by the constant reference…
I had a Western Digital (WD) EX-4100 RAID-10 network-attached storage (NAS) serve as the backbone for my data storage over the last few years. This week, I upgraded to a Drobo 8D direct-attached storage (DAS) connected to my iMac Pro via Thunderbolt 3. The performance difference is incredible.
I recently started to relauch my YouTube channel, but to do this, I needed to up my A/V equipment game. I’ve ever owned a “real” camera before, so after doing some research, I opted to go with the following hardware (with Amazon affiliate links):
I ordered the HyperJuice 100W gallium nitride (GaN) charger from an Indiegogo campaign back in January;. With COVID-19 and the associated shipping delays, I finally received the product today. In the interim, I bought RAVPower’s 90W GaN charger from Amazon and have been using it without a hitch for the…
I’ve been a Chrome browser user since its inception in 2008. Over the years, I experimented with a wide variety of hardware ranging from Windows gaming rigs and Linux servers to MacOS laptops. Currently, Apple powers the majority of my life; however, I’ve stuck with Chrome as my browser of…
We now rely on the Internet more than ever to communicate, learn, and manage various aspects of our lives. So I decided to compile a list of things I’ve done to help ensure security in an increasingly volatile world of cyberattacks. In this post, I’ll list some techniques I use…
At the time of this writing, WhatsApp is the number one messaging app (followed by Facebook Messenger). With Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp merging messaging services in the future, I wanted to create a separate WhatsApp Business account just for my social media related endeavors.