MacOS Virtualization is awesome with UTM

Back before I had my M2 Pro MacBook Pro, I had an Intel i5 MacBook Pro with TouchBar (which I actually miss, I'm in the minority for that one) and ran VMWare Fusion 12 to attempt to run Windows and MacOS virtual machines because I wanted to experiment with software and what not from the …

2017 MacBook Pro vs 2022 MacBook Pro

I think I wrote briefly about this but this past Christmas my wife gifted me with a 2022 M2 Pro MacBook Pro 14”. This was to replace my 2017 MacBook Pro with a Dual Core i5 processor. I have to say, I didn’t know how slow my 2017 MacBook was until I started using my …

New Year, New MacBook Pro!

Happy 2024! I'm still probably the one that visits my blog the most, mainly because I'm the author for every single post. But anyway, thats the not the point of this post at all. It's to tell the interweb that I finally have a new MacBook Pro! I got this new MacBook for Christmas which is awesome and of …

My Apple Tech is becoming “Vintage”

It's almost Black Friday and the sales are starting early. This makes it tempting to look to "upgrade" my Apple tech, except my iPhone which has just been upgraded in October. I still have a 2017 MacBook Pro and 2 2017 iPad Pro's and don't get me wrong, they still work but just this year …

VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Pro

Over the last few months I’ve been using VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Pro to run a few VM’s to experiment with beta builds of operating systems and to try out software without worrying about wrecking my MacBook Pro. VMWare Fusion is pretty neat in that it allows me a license in order to create …

No new tech to blog about…..

I've come to the point where I'm not acquiring tech in a regular interval (I used to get something new every few months) but I think I've stabilized on just a few different platforms rather than trying new things out. I've resigned myself to the fact that the entire family is locked into the Apple …

Using an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS VM for uploading pictures and video to Google Photos

I've been taking a lot more video on the GoPro of late and there is even video that I haven't even moved over to Google Photos yet and I've been struggling to find a good solution on how to upload all those videos without keeping my MacBook Pro on all night. Recently I upgraded my …

Long Live Touch ID

I must be one of the last hold outs that still like having Touch ID. Granted I have never owned a Face ID enabled device but most of my devices use it. I have iPads and iPhones that all use the tech and its nice to be able to share an iPad or iPhone with …

Rediscovering Firefox

Back in the days of yore, I used a web browser called Netscape. Netscape eventually died off but out of its ashes came a browser called Firefox. For a long time this was the only alternative to Internet Explorer and before Chrome was even a thing. I recently saw on my news feed that Firefox …

Switching to Spark Mail because of an SMTP error

I've been using my new MacBook Pro and everything has been going pretty good except for sending out email.  Apple claims that everything just works but for some reason Mail is not working right out of the box.  I've tried looking for advanced settings to set some specific ports and encryption but those settings seems …